Yes, there are people this dumb in real life
Smart Criminals
WITH
A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS!
Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman
who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters,
officers discovered that the man was standing beside them, shouting out to give
himself up.
WHAT
WAS PLAN B???
An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him
to drive to two different automated teller machines. The kidnapper then proceeded
to withdraw money from his own bank account.
SOME
DAYS, IT JUST DOESN'T PAY!
Fire investigators on Maui have determined the cause of a blaze that destroyed
a $127,000 home last month - a short in the homeowner's newly installed fire
prevention alarm system. "This is even worse than last year," said the distraught
homeowner, "when someone broke in and stole my new security system..."
THE
GETAWAY!
A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Shop and asked for all the money in
the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small so he tied up the store
clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up
and grabbed him.
DID
I SAY THAT???
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't
control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup
to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted,
"That's not what I said!"
OUCH,
THAT SMARTS!!
A bank robber in Virginia Beach got a nasty surprise when a dye pack designed
to mark stolen money exploded in his Fruit-of-the-Looms. The robber apparently
stuffed the loot down the front of his pants as he was running out the door.
"He was seen hopping and jumping around with an explosion taking place inside
his pants," said police spokesman Mike Carey. Police have the man's charred
trousers in custody.
ARE
WE COMMUNICATING??
A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions
are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No,
you idiot!" the man shouted, "this is her husband!"
NOT
THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER!!
In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank
of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate
a gun. unfortunately he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.
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