Stupid Criminal Tricks

[sho-dan]

Darwin Awards Honorable Mention: Stupid Criminal Tricks

• Pick The Right Bank:
  You don't want to make the same mistake as the fellow in Anaheim, CA, who tried to hold up a bank that was no longer in business and had no money.
  
• Study Your History:
  Don't try to stick up the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota. Jesse James tried it 111 years ago, and the townsfolk took just seven minutes to kill two and capture three of his gang. Nobody tried again until 1984, and the customers chased the guy down. They're tight with their dollar, those Minnesotans.
  
• Speak To The Right Teller:
  One robber in Upland, CA, presented his note to the teller, and her father, who was in the next line, got all bent out of shape about it. He wrestled the guy to the ground and sat on him until authorities arrived.
  
• Don't Sign Your Demand Note:
  Demand notes have been written on the back of a subpoena issued in the name of a bank robber in Pittsburgh... on an envelope bearing the name and address of another in Detroit. And in East Hartford, Connecticut, on the back of a withdrawal slip giving the robber's signature and account number.
  
• Don't Advertise:
  A teenage girl in Los Angeles tried to distract attention from her face by wearing a see-through blouse with no bra while holding up banks.
  
• Go Easy On The Disguise:
  One robber, dressed up as a woman with very heavy make-up, ran face first into a glass door. He was the first criminal ever to be positively identified by lip-print.
  
• Take Right Turns Only:
  Avoid the sad fate of the thieves in Florida who took a wrong turn into the Homestead Air Force Base, drove up to a military police guardhouse and, thinking it was a tollbooth, offered the security men money.
  
• Be Aware Of The Time:
  Imagine the chagrin of the bank robber in Cheshire, Massachusetts, who hit the bank at 4:30 PM, then tried to escape through downtown North Adams, where he was trapped in rush hour traffic until police arrived.
  
• Consider Another Line Of Work:
  Bank robbery is not for everyone. One nervous Newport, RI robber, while trying to stuff his ill-gotten gains into his shirt pocket, shot himself in the head and died instantly.
  
• Be Strong:
  Then there was the case of the hopeful criminal in Swansea, Massachusetts, who, when the teller told him she had no money, fainted. He was still unconscious when the police arrived. His getaway car parked nearby had the keys locked inside.
  
• Not a bank robbery, maybe it was an IT tech:
  Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two counterfeit $16 bills
  

[Electrobrandino]

those sure are stupid criminal tricks XD

Nice ones!

[rydall]

That was funny, but one really has to wonder if people are that stupid to do some of them?, really?

[Electrobrandino]

That was funny, but one really has to wonder if people are that stupid to do some of them?, really?

It is sad, but those people are out there....well, except for the guy who shot himself in the head...hes gone...but the rest of them are still out there!

lol

[rydall]

It is sad, but those people are out there....well, except for the guy who shot himself in the head...hes gone...but the rest of them are still out there!

lol

Maybe the rest need to take a gun to there heads to. (we don't need then in this world)

[CharlesT]

hahaha ya dumb crooks ha . i actually read one of a guy robbing this bank so many times and the last time he rob it was in the morning and Police was still there investicating and somehow this crook did not see them and tried to rob bank again. when cops still there .... yep they caught him ... no he did not shoot himself in head .