Stupid Criminals

[navymech]

My buddy at the PD sent this to me i got a good laught out of it hope you guys do to?


When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a holdup in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot
did something that can only inspire wonder: He peered down the barrel and
tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

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And now, the honorable mentions:

The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting
machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his
insurance company. The company, suspecting negligence, sent out one of its
men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine out and lost a finger.
The
chef's claim was approved.

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A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had
taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

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After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus Driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence,
the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free
ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the
staff
that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.
The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

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An American teenager was in the hospital yesterday recovering from
serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he
received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see
how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

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A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, 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?
$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, was a crime
committed?)

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A thief burst into a Florida bank one day wearing a ski mask and
carrying a gun. Aiming his gun at the guard, the thief yelled, "FREEZE,
MOTHER-STICKERS THIS IS A ****-UP!" For a moment, everyone was
silent. Then the snickers started. The guard completely lost it and doubled
over laughing. It probably saved his life, because he'd been about to draw
his gun. He couldn't have drawn and fired before the thief got him. The
embarrassed
thief ran away and is still at large. In memory of the event, the banker
later put a
plaque on the wall engraved with the words, "Freeze, mother-stickers, this
is a
****-up!"

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Seems this Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided
that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab
some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his
head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief
on
the head knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made
of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

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As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within
minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and
drove
back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand
there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer,that's her.
That's the lady I stole the purse from."

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The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and
demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open
the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings,
the
clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked
away.

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Kentucky: 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. They were quickly arrested.

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A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!

When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on
a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived
at the scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor home near
spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to
steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage
tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying
that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

[Harris]

After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus Driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence,
the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free
ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the
staff
that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.
The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

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holy shit, that's scary.

[Saltbitch]

After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus Driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence,
the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free
ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the
staff
that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.
The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

.

holy shit, that's scary.

Sounds like something one of the VA Hospitals in Alabama would do.