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Simply Dumb

August 22nd, 2008

Bigfoot Hoaxer Fired from Police Force

As the saga of the two Georgia men who claimed to find Bigfoot continues, it turns out that one of the men involved is a police officer. Er, was a police officer.
Matt Whitton was fired from Clayton County Police. The police chief didn’t find all that lying very funny. It ruined Whitton’s credibility. Especially since […]

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August 18th, 2008

Teddy bear catches thief

People who steal from the sick and infirm are some of the worst types of criminals. If you steal from someone who can’t help herself you are an awful opportunist. And yes, you suck. There, I said it.
A British woman, Yvonne Allen, pled guilty to charges of theft after she was caught stealing […]

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August 3rd, 2008

Armed, dangerous, and naked?

The crazy is out in force, y’all. An Ohio woman was arrested after she threatened her husband with knives. She chased him down the street. While naked.
Elizabeth Springer was in the bath with her 1-year-old daughter when her husband, Ryan, heard the girl crying. He thought that his wife was trying to harm the little […]

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July 22nd, 2008

Bank robber uses own check for cash demand

Sometimes we’re pretty sure that crimes are spur-of-the-moment things. Because if these guys thought these things through at all we wouldn’t have half the stories that we do.
Case in point. Guy walks into a bank. Demands money. Writes demand note on the back of his own check. No, really. Patrick Johnson of Florida did just […]

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June 16th, 2008

Bad Ideas: Heroin Diapers

Drug smugglers keep trying to come up with new and inventive ways to move their “wares.” And Frank Keys Jr. of New Orleans probably won’t live this one down for quite a while.
Keys was in a car pulled over for a traffic violation. When DEA agents searched the car, the drug sniffing dog alerted and […]

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May 16th, 2008

Perhaps The Worst Robber Ever

First Coast News brings us a report of a pizza place employee who robbed his place of employment, while still wearing his uniform. Sigh. Joseph Whittenton broke into Jacksonville’s Hungry Howie’s Pizza early Wednesday morning.
Police arrived to find cash and credit card receipts missing and visible signs of forced entry. The owner of the […]

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May 9th, 2008

Gas Thief Burns Himself While Stealing

And our parade of gas-inspired foolishness continues. The Grand Junction Sentinel reports an 18-year-old Colorado man rushed himself to the hospital May 2 with burns on his hands he got siphoning gas. Oh, it gets better. It seems Cody Sellars peered into a portable gas tank with a cigarette lighter to see how full […]

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May 6th, 2008

Next time, you’d better go for an automatic

We know we’ve been a little car-centric recently, but we just can’t help ourselves. Some celebrity will do something dumb and then we’ll be able to balance things out a little bit.
In the mean time, we wanted to share another dumb criminal story. Yes, it involves a car.
A West Palm Beach man, after being released […]

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April 17th, 2008

So Is It Still Technically A Getaway Car?

From the Houston Chronicle, a would-be bank robber’s attempt sputtered when his getaway car wouldn’t start. According to Harris County Sheriff’s Department reports, 41-year-old Wayne Williams robbed the First Convenience Bank in Spring Saturday and left with an undisclosed amount of money.
He had to leave on foot, though and when he got arrested on an […]

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