, A week or so after the train bombings in Madrid, the authorities arrested 5 men who may have done it. How did they catch them so quickly? According to MSN.COM:
"The five were arrested in connection with a cell phone inside an explosives-packed gym bag found on one of the bombed commuter trains."
A guy robbed a store, wanted a getaway car and steals a local police vehicle.The cop arrested the dummy at once.
In this morning's paper they had the story of one of the unluckiest bank robbers EVER!
It appears this guy robbed $2,000 from a teller at a Washington D.C.bank.So far so good for the robber.
UNFORTUNATELY a witness who saw him do it folowed him outside and promptly blocked his escape way.(The brilliant criminal was trying to get away in a taxi of all things.I mean wouldn't it be faster if he just fled on foot?)Anyways just about that time the dye that they put in the money just in case the bank gets robbed exploded all over the would be robber's face.
MORE UNFORTUNATELY for the would be Willie Sutton it happened in front of a lunch time crowd.EVEN MORE UNFORTUNATE was the fact that two of those just having their lunch breaks were with the FBI.So they see it and they nab the guy end of story.And can we PLEASE give this guy at least an honorable Darwin for his stupidity?
Boy George gets my nomination this week.
He was arrested for having illegal dope.
Too bad he couldn't be arrested for BEING A DOPE.
a local high school student bought a gun to school. The school was in lockdown. So far so good. Then the pd came and found out it was a fake gun. What if it was real?
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a gang kid saw a kid's shirt ,it was the same color as a rival gang, so he followed the kid ready to beat him up. Guess what? At school, he couldnt find the kid. Problem? The whole school wore his rival gang s color shirt. how dumb is that
More dumb robbber award: He robbed a store and left his id, address and phone number so the pd can catch him later. The pd waited for him at his domicile.(address)
a bank teller misplaced my check, put it into some els'e s account. That person is richer by xx amount
Now we gotta complain to the cops, that person is trying to deny I existed.
is this dumb
A Porsche (sp) dealer found a customer he wanted a ride. So the dealer gave him the keys.The next thing the dealer knows, he's calling 911 and said the porshe is stolen. What's the license number?, the cops asked? (the driver never returned it)
how trusting is that dealer
at a resturent where I worked, I was fired.No problem. The boss took a break one day and found the whole crew smoked you know what (weed). She fired them all. (this was where the fry cook said no salt on the french fries)
at another resturent, they said I stole $20.I was fired promptly. (i didnt take it, the cashier found the money on the floor)Then, later in the week, they counted $2,000 missing, the day's reciepts.Since I stole $20, (not even my day's pay), they couldnt get me.
how dumb is that
we went to the bank to complain that the teller misplaced my check. It was found in the unclaimed
money departement.. The teller finally recognized me.. What me steal?
at a major computer store, some idiot refused to take my check.they think my check will bounce.,i bet. Fine.I went to his boss and they refused to take my check. Later, 2 ppeople with fake credit cards spent $20,000 on computer items. At least my check was good! They lost a customer of good will.
Anonymous22: let me guess. Fry's.
Scottn: Nope, its a place where they are taking care of business
ps. The computer I wanted to buy was $1200. It went down to $500 for quick sale. They didn't recognize me at all, a week later.I bought a windowx xp computer, at thier compition's place. Fry's, Scottn!
a lady tried to return christmas stuff, a sweater was oversized. She stood in line for 45 minutes and when she got to the front, they recognized her and got shown the door. She's on a no return items list. She said, I didn't buy them .What, she' s a thief or something?
the security guards said Don't ever come back here!
My best friend's mom was looking at a dress, and wanted to see it in better light. So she went outside the store with it and was instantly surrounded by police and security. She was told never to come back here either.
the family almost visited her in jail.
The first time I went into a major store, I was 11 or 12 years old, the store security system went off while I was entering. The guards searched me.I left in a few minutes and the ding ding dings dont ring off. When I reentered the store, it went off again. the guard boss said You just got searched, I said Duh!
I refuse to buy anything fr om them that day on. Im a thief entering the store. Yeah, right
I thought this was about dumb criminals, not experiences where you were treated like one.
they think I am that dumb, Titanman22
moderator can delete me, then
Shouldn't the mom have known better than to take a dress outside the store without paying?
My best friend thought that too, Nove, they had to do some fast talking before they handcuffed her.
The K-Mart near me had a problem for a long time with the cashiers improperly scanning items and not disabling the security device attached to some items. Strangely, the device wouldn't go off when exiting the store, but would when you entered another establishment that used the same type of system. I walked into the grocery store after buying a blank videotape at K-Mart once, and the device went off. A cashier walked over and said "Let me guess? K-Mart?". I replied yes and walked over to her register, and she disabled the device.
I'd hate to think some people ended up getting the third degree after walking into some place with merchandise from K-Mart that triggered the business' security system and had staff that didn't know about the incompetence of K-Mart's cashiers.....
Fortunately, that doesn't happen at K-Mart anymore, but I rarely buy anything there unless I have to. They've pulled the bait and switch routine a few times too many. I won't even buy blank audio cassettes there, because I got hosed on them once.
As for dumb crooks....
I was watching the show America's Dumbest Criminals once, and they had a story that stuck with me:
A crook decides to rob a bank, but has no disguise. So he goes and gets some duct tape and wraps his head in strips of the duct tape to hide his face.
This would-be criminal mastermind forgot something very important: as soon as he entered the bank he started panicking, because he taped over his mouth and nostrils, so he couldn't breathe!
David Hunter, a retired police officer from this area who is an author, wrote a few books of his experiences. One night him and his partner found a man standing outside a mobile home puking, holding a hose. Seems he was trying to siphon off gasoline.....but put the hose into the septic tank.
(I highly recommend his books, by the way. He writes fiction as well as books about his experiences on the force, and the books about his time as a police officer usually have quite a few humorous stories.)
Oh, and one thing I've learned from reading News Of The Weird - http://www.newsoftheweird.com - over the years? Beware anyone whose middle name is Wayne. Because they're probably a crook.
(Its okay if Wayne is their first or last name, however)
Ghost machine I went into Macy's in the 70s. The new fangled security device beeped, when I was 10 or so. The guards searched me, then found nothing. I reentered the store and it beeped again.The head honcho told me you got searched already!
I refused to buy anything at any Macy's from that time on.
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K mart security said I was stealing a tv when they checked me. My tv was a 14inchtv, the guard said.I was not, I was so mad I went my lawyer ready, to sue them.I demanded an apology from the Head of K mart in 83, and management said I stole a tv from Sears, not Kmart.I had to write to the Prez of Kmart and so on. I was In the store when I got stopped.Now its Home depot.
A woman bought a puppy from her local breeder. The puppy got sick & the woman took it to the vet. Hours later, the puppy died. The woman returned to the breeder of the pup and attacked the breeder with the corpse of the dead puppy.
When the trial begins, I wonder if they'll bring the "weapon" into the courtroom?
Someone's been stealing the letter R from every billboard
ad in his town- what's the deal with that?
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and some nut stole a yellow taxi cab, from a police station, even or near it..the driver reported it stolen asap, and the cops called it in-robbery in progress!
they caught the dummy at the wheel even
yesterday's local news
Not me I have enough Rs of my own.
Someone around here took and changed a sign to read welcome to the sweet porn festival instead of sweet corn festival like it was supposed to.
A drunk got into a black and white at an intersection and found out its a pd car. He thought it was a cabbie.They send him up the creek without a paddle.
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A robber robbing a bank left a note to the teller, then his id.The cops were waiting for him to come home with the loot.
local news.
At a Target in Salinas Ca,yesterday, the security beeped and no one cared , they walked off with whatever they took. What if it was me? I 'm still looking for a tv-dvd .In best Buy across the way, a guy was searched entering the store!
I'd be stripped search and be asked where you hiding it?
A customer from behind me told me to give him the vhs tape him ,my 6 hour tape,I thought he wanted to see the price..He sees the price, cuts in line to tell the cashier, tells her I stole it from him.The cashier agreed.It was on sale!
Management showed me the door and got told don't you ever come back here.
It was at a drugstore near you.
Remind me to NEVER EVER go anywhere with you.
A man posing as a cop in our area got caught for posing as a policeman in some car accident..
His Id was false!
lol
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ScottN-we should meet at Disneyland. In 1980, I was to go there and be a new Employee when a D-land employee told me to park in the guest area $3.00 a car.
I left asap.
? So you lost a job over a mixup in parking? Or were you not actually an employee but were going there to apply?
Yup.,
Hey, only I am allowed to answer like that! 
Yup, you had the job, but lost it because of the parking mixup, or Yup, you were going to apply? Which one?
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uh?
Maybe Nove should answer this one!
er, be a new Employee, I bet.
Someone stole Dennis the Menace, the bust at our local park...An employee came in and saw it gone.
hopefully it was a Halloween prank..
It was on our local news and front page newspaper.
Sortta like Beathoven on Schreoder's piano getting smashed by Lucy.
How would I be able to answer it? I can't tell from your post; "be a new employee" and "yup" are rather vague. You're the only one that can answer it.
A. You had been hired to work at Disneyland.
-OR-
B. You were applying for a job at Disneyland.
Which one?
B.
Who posted that? A drive-by poster?
I saw this on the news a few years ago:
A man carjacked some woman and drove to a gas station. There, he ditched that car and tried to carjack a van. Unfortunately, the van was filled with judo experts...
A gang member saw this 30ish yr old lady wearing his gang enemys' red shirt color ,so he goes into the store and finds her and beats her up. Its where they take care of business.He got mad enough to that?
Its her store uniform!
In our local news awhile back,a passerby by calls 911 to report 2 guys making a deal for a stolen car, so they call 911 and the pd came and the guy buying the car ran,and shot the seller to death. The seller was their own pd cop pretending to be a stolen car seller(in plainsclothes).He was even at roll call!They didn't recognize him.
How was the caller to know it was a stolen car deal in progress?
the family is sueing the pd for a million bucks, and the buyer longggggggg gone!
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They said a videotape of Airport was stolen, give it back.-I have the reciept! they fired the cashier,asap.
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a freind of mine failed to rewind a rental tape, Liaer, Liaer. so they charged him $1.He said it was rwound..Prove it.
for Scottn- and Nove both actually.I went to D-land and they sent the talking Abe Lincoln to the junkheap,
Extinct Disnyland.I was to apply at 2pm in 1980 and the powers that ran the parking lot be told me to park there $3, now its the Ca theme Park!
and the new Cpt.Nemo ride (sub ride, i used to love it when I was 7,8,9 etc)was so long it wrapped around the Matterhorn ride!
The Giants announcers last night mention the Seattle guy who got $20,000 (?)out of an airline, made a parachute jump and his Grandpop found money floating in a river..I read about it in the 70s.
It was big news.Dave Cooper or Copper (?) somebody.,those days!