Stupidest Criminal...

[matt81]

Nothing is funnier than a stupid criminal, right?

There was a case where a burglar fell asleep on the bed, in the house, with the couple whose house he was robbing. It sounds crazy, but it's a true story. The folks at The Smoking Gun are having a funny award for this year's "Stupidest Criminal", so I thought to start a thread here to see if there were any good stories out there that we can submit to their editors (long-shot but hey, you never know!!) In case you want to check it out the show (it's called The Smoking Gun Year End Special), it's going to air next Thursday night, I believe at 10pm. These guys can be pretty hilarious so it's worth taping in case you aren't going to be home.

[Maharlika]

...by checking out The Darwin Awards.

[arno_v]

The stories on that site or so damn funny.

[jopperm2]

I went to college with an older woman who worked in a pharmacy. She got robbed one day and was able to hit the silent alarm right away without the robber knowing. She did everything that he asked but took her time and when she pulled out the money she started counting it all.. The criminal asked what she was doing, but she told him that it was company policy to count the money in the event of a robbery so they know how much they lost. Oddly he didn't seem to have a problem with it, so she made a little mistake and had to recount it. She was able to stall long enough for the police to get there and arrest the guy. She later found out that he was unarmed and well-known to the police as a kind of village idiot of a criminal. Though her actions weren't too bright either I would venture to say.