Tim -
Those are great stories. There should be some kind of Pinhead of the Month award, or some such, given to worthy people like those.
The stories remind me of an article I read long ago about criminals who weren't very bright.
In one case, police were called to the scene of a robbery, where a safe had been stolen from the rental office of a retirement community. The crime was solved in about five minutes, as police followed the gouge marks in the sidewalk up to the front door of a house just up the block where the thief had dragged the safe.
They knocked at the door. The culprit opened it dressed in bathing trunks, dripping with sweat, holding an acetylene torch in his hand.
In another case, it wasn't so much a matter of stupidity as colossal bad luck. A man driving a stolen camper van was pulled over by a California Highway Patrolman. As he rolled down the window, he said, "Why did you pull me over? I wasn't speeding." The officer replied, "No, you were driving fine. But this is my camper."
I love that story.
- Allen |
