Dumb crimes

[MarkusTay]

I saw this on one of those cops/real video things-

Guy decides to rob a Chinese Restaurant at night, and goes in through the ceiling. He drops approx. 12 ft (about 3m) to the floor. After looking around he realizes there is nothing worth taking. He also realizes he can\'t get back out through the ceiling. Panicing, he uses the phone in the restaurant to call the police and ask them to let him out. They arrive at the scene and can see the perp pacing back and forth because the entire front of the place is glass. They call the owner who opens the place, and they promptly arrest the guy. When they ask him why he didn\'y break a window to get out he replied \"I didn\'t want to get into any trouble\"!

I didn\'t make this up, the ENTIRE thing was caught on VIDEO CAMERA! lol

Editted: Actually I don\'t think it was \"COPS\", I think it was that \"Caught on Tape\" show.

 

[RedDawn]

We have a great alternative (& free!) newspaper here in Atlanta, \"Creative Loafing\" - affectionately known as \'The Loaf\'. They have a great section called, The Blotter, where they list happenings from actual police reports. It\'s absolutely hilarious! It\'s the first section I read every time. I can\'t find a danged copy of it or I\'d post some of the stories right now.

 

[Tylith]

Originally posted by MarkusTay
I saw this on one of those cops/real video things-

Guy decides to rob a Chinese Restaurant at night, and goes in through the ceiling. He drops approx. 12 ft (about 3m) to the floor. After looking around he realizes there is nothing worth taking. He also realizes he can\'t get back out through the ceiling. Panicing, he uses the phone in the restaurant to call the police and ask them to let him out. They arrive at the scene and can see the perp pacing back and forth because the entire front of the place is glass. They call the owner who opens the place, and they promptly arrest the guy. When they ask him why he didn\'y break a window to get out he replied \"I didn\'t want to get into any trouble\"!

I didn\'t make this up, the ENTIRE thing was caught on VIDEO CAMERA! lol

Editted: Actually I don\'t think it was \"COPS\", I think it was that \"Caught on Tape\" show.

12 ft isn\'t too bad... Like climbing ontop of a roof.

Some people are just pathetic lol

 

[Drake Farstrider]

There was one that I heard a number of years ago. Not sure if it is true or not.

A man robs a bank in NYC an d gets away with a bag full of money, several blocks away while cutting through an alley way, he gets mugged by 2 guys. So distraught he walks up to the nearest cop and procedes to tell the cop that he just robbed a bank and was then mugged and that he wanted the cop to help him get his money back. Needless to say he went to jail.

 

[Duende]

Just saw this in Yahoo\'s \"Oddly Enough\" section:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many a visitor to New York\'s Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, \"I could do that.\"

A British graffiti artist who goes by the name \"Banksy\" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.

The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York\'s top museums on a single day.

The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background.

The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.

\"It was just an outsider\'s view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware,\" he said.


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