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- Stupid-Criminal Hall of Shame
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- Anon
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- Every day, we are assaulted by stories of stupid people--many of whom use
- their stupidity for personal gain.
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- From time to time, though, we hear of those who strive to achieve new
- levels of stupidity *while* also breaking the law. To these brave men
- and women--ooops, "women and men"--we present the highest possible honor:
- entry into the "Stupid-Criminal Hall of Shame."
-
- The following are their accounts ...
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- Kentucky (where else?): Two men tried to pull the front off a cash
- machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup
- truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they
- pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove
- home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper
- still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still
- attached to the bumper.
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- South Carolina: A man walked into a local police station, dropped a bag
- of cocaine on the counter, informed the desk sergeant that it was
- substandard cut, and asked that the person who sold it to him be arrested
- immediately.
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- Indiana: A man walked up to a cashier at a grocery store and demanded
- all the money in the register. When the cashier handed him the loot, he
- fled--leaving his wallet on the counter.
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- England: A German "tourist," supposedly on a golf holiday, shows up at
- customs with his golf bag. While making idle chatter about golf, the
- customs official realizes that the tourist does not know what a
- "handicap" is. The customs official asks the tourist to demonstrate his
- swing, which he does--backward! A substantial amount of narcotics was
- found in the golf bag.
-
- Germany: Oil of Olay no longer turning the trick for her, a woman
- decided that she would bathe in the milk of a camel (a modern-day
- Cleopatra). So she stole a camel from the local zoo (where *else* can
- you find a camel when you need one?) and transported it back to her
- house--where she realized that the camel's name was "Otto."
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- Arizona: A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western
- movies, etc. One day, they received a call from a 47-year- old woman,
- who wanted to have her husband killed. She got 4-1/2 years in jail.
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- Texas: A man convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in
- damages rather than serve a prison sentence. For payment, he provided
- the court a check--a *forged* check. He got 10 years.
-
- (Location Unknown): A man went into a drug store, pulled a gun,
- announced a robbery, and pulled a Hefty-bag face mask over his head--and
- realized that he'd forgotten to cut eyeholes in the mask.
-
- (Location Unknown): A man successfully broke into a bank after hours and
- stole--are you ready for this?--the bank's video camera. While it was
- recording. Remotely. (That is, the videotape recorder was located
- elsewhere in the bank, so he didn't get the videotape of himself stealing
- the camera.)
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- (Location Unknown): A man successfully broke into a bank's basement
- through a street-level window, cutting himself up pretty badly in the
- process. He then realized that (1) he could not get to the money from
- where he was,(2) he could not climb back out the window through which he
- had entered, and (3) he was bleeding pretty badly. So he located a phone
- and dialed "911" for help ...
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- Virginia: Two men in a pickup truck went to a new-home site to steal a
- refrigerator. Banging up walls, floors, etc., they snatched a
- refrigerator from one of the houses, and loaded it onto the pickup. The
- truck promptly got stuck in the mud, so these brain surgeons decided that
- the refrigerator was too heavy. Banging up *more* walls, floors, etc.,
- they put the refrigerator BACK into the house, and returned to the pickup
- truck, only to realize that they locked the keys in the truck--so they
- abandoned it.
-
- (Location Unknown): A man walked into a Circle-K (a convenience store
- similar to a 7-11), put a $20 bill on the counter and asked for change.
- When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for
- all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man
- took the cash from the clerk and fled-- leaving the $20 bill on the
- counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer? Fifteen
- dollars.
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