Do you know any stupid crook stories?

@burrito88 (2774)
United States
June 24, 2010 2:17pm CST
We hear about things like this all the time. Someone tries to rob somebody and does something stupid to get caught. For example, near me recently, someone tried to rob a grocery store and tried running away with the shopping cart. He never made it out of the parking lot. Or there was a person who robbed a bank and then was caught when he tried to buy a getaway car at a used car lot with 900 one dollar bills. Do you know any stupid crook stories?
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@amelly (1554)
• Malaysia
25 Jun 10
i knew one story..a bunch of guys robbed a house..a typical robbery..at the middle of the night but somehow one of the kid saw them and started to cry..maybe these guys were like first timer..they didn;t harm the kid at all instead they give her money so that she can buy something the next day..there was even a video of them giving the money to her and ask her to stop crying nicely..what a robber!!..they wanted to be bad but they are nice actually...
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@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
25 Jun 10
were they arrested?
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@amelly (1554)
• Malaysia
25 Jun 10
yes because they were caught on tape..but i pity them because i don;t think they are the bad guys..surely they are bad because they did the robbery but they are not actually meant to be robbers..that what i thought
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• United States
25 Jun 10
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
24 Jun 10
I've heard that the cops love those gangbangers who wear their pants so loose because they catch them as they run away and their pants fall down!!! Or how about that guy who thought to lose the cops by running off into a dark field, not realizing that his shoes flashed at every step! or try this site out... http://www.newsoftheweird.com/
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@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
25 Jun 10
Yews, did you hear of the bank robber that was caught within 24 hours because he had his name tattoed on his forehead.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
25 Jun 10
or how about the one who tried to take a bottle of booze and the guy behind the counter told him he couldn't let him take it without seeing his id and the MORON showed it!!! or maybe the one who used his own deposit slip to write the "this is a hold up" note...
@cbjones (1147)
• United States
25 Jun 10
Police who were tracking down a woman suspected of credit card theft found that her use of her Kroger Plus Shopper’s Card really helped tie the case in a neat bundle, a Charlottesville detective said. Fannie Ophelia Henson, 46, was arrested on Saturday and charged with credit card theft, a felony. After a man lost his wallet, someone used the cards to make just less than $400 in purchases from a gas station and the Kroger store at 1159 Emmet St., Detective Edward Prachar said. According to search warrant affidavit that Prachar submitted, the purchases were made on July 31. Using surveillance videos and “having had experience with her in the past,” Prachar focused on Henson as a suspect, he said. Surveillance video showed the person using the stolen card also was using a Kroger Plus Shopper’s Card, Prachar said. Prachar checked Kroger’s records and found out that Henderson had used her own card. “I guess trying to use her discount card kind of helped cement the case,” Prachar said. “She may have absentmindedly just scanned her card, from what I can tell on the video.” My favorite website for offbeat, dumb criminal news: http://www.dumbcriminals.com/
• China
25 Jun 10
yeah i also this kind of story someone is stolen my new bike and a what a coincidence he come to me to sell my bike then i call the police after police come police arrest him its happen to me
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
25 Jun 10
When was a Iowa State, someone stole the bike of someone I knew. It was an uncommon French bike. The guy I knew hunted around and eventually found the bike. The thief had done some work on the bike like greasing the chain. The guy I knew stole it back.
@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
24 Jun 10
LOL...My hometown has no roads in or out of it. The only way to leave town is on a ferry or by plane so the crime rate there is relatively low and not usually robbery. A few years back some guy walked into one of the banks and actually robbed it, then tried to get away on the ferry with his car! You have to check in at the ferry terminal 2 hours ahead if you are taking a vehicle on. Forget that the bank had cameras and everyone knew him but he chose the slowest method of leaving town afterward!
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
25 Jun 10
There were sme guys who obbed a bank in a mall but they didn't do a good job scoping the place out and must have picked a busy tme because the police found them driving around the parking lot trying to figure out how to get out.
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• United States
25 Jun 10
• United States
4 Oct 10
Wow both of those stories you shared are ridiculous!! You think people (when doing something that drastic) would think things through and formulate a plan rather than just trying to do something stupid like that. I knew this one guy... my cousin-in-law now... that robbed these older people for antique jewelry. Within the next few days, he tries to go to the pawn shop to get rid of the jewelry that had already been reported stolen to the police by the elderly couple. What made it so bad... is the fact that the antique jewelry was ENGRAVED!! He was locked up within that hour. LOL!!
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
20 May 11
There was a guy who picked up a bag of money that fell out of an armored car. He would have gotten away with it except he starting spending money like it was no tomorrow.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
1 Oct 10
i've heard stories about people who actually pushed grocery carts out of stores and made it all the way to their house pushing the grocery cart. that's some pretty bad security huh?
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
25 Jun 10
I once read of this incident in my local newspaper. A robber stole an ATM machine. I mean it's difficult enough to walk away with something so huge and to do it unnoticed. The robber lost his wallet at the ATM location when he was trying to pry it from its place. The police were waiting for him when he got home. He had left them his calling card. His driver's license was in the wallet. How dumb can you be?
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
25 Jun 10
There was a classic video they showed on TV of someone trying to stea an ATM machine. They hooked a chain around the machine and the rear bumper of their pickup. The succeed in tearing the bumper off the truck, which they left behind with their license plate. The video from the bank was shown on TV several times.
@oldchem1 (8132)
25 Jun 10
Last year it was in the papers that a man in America robbed a bank and then hitched a ride from an undercover police detective - he was soon locked up