I've heard a story slightly like the burglar who broke into an apartment that housed newly hired police officers. It happened at a bank in Washington DC in the early 1990s. A bank robber learned the hard way that being rude and impatient can have consequences. He was in line and already had his disguise on. Because it was Saturday, he wanted to get to the teller window before they shut down for the afternoon. He got grumpy and shoved his way to the front and produced a stickup note. The clerk started to LAUGH. He was confused and realized she was looking behind him. He turned around. And found himself staring at 6 gun barrels. The men in business suits he shoved past were newly recruited FBI agents trying to open up new direct deposit accounts for their paychecks. I bet they had a fun argument over who got the honor of slapping the cuffs on him...
my dad had his debit card stolen once. the thief tried to charge $3,000. no luck. $300? nope. then they tried $30 but again, it didn't go through. my dad had about $7 in his account at the time LMAO
A guy I worked with years ago had a late 70's stock olds cutlass stolen. Police call him a month later saying they have recovered it. He goes down and identifies it but it now has custom rims and tires, an expensive sound system and new upholstery. Cops laughed their asses off because none of it was reported stolen so he got a car that was worth twice whats it was worth before being stolen
13:19 Beatings were issued. So casually said, but oh so gratifying. I don't condone violence, but there is a small part of me who finds catharsis in karma.
Wouldn't a soaking wet , with wall etc parts sticking onto him - person look ..........OFF ? I mean I was also almost kicked to shreds for.....hopping along to music by a teen ( Yeah I am tiny and underweight aka 80 lbs at 5 1 and I am beyond 35 ) If I hadn't made up my own dance to the music with a TURN at the end he would have hit my knee / tigh from behind and destroyed my face including implants, instead he suddenly faced me and even on semi pointe ( standing on the first joint of your toes) I could "lock" my knees and only stumbled a few steps backwards. So much for "you training is a waste of time".... If I had fallen and he decided to kick me in the back, I probably would write (if even) from a,wheelchair. I have Osteoporosis. (Same cause as the weight. Anorexia. )
Saw this on a documentary, a guy lets himself into his partners house, murders her and takes a bit of stuff and burns it. When he left the house he broke a window to make it look like a burglary. He broke the glass from the inside of the house...
Was this on forensic files on Netflix? I saw. a similar one where a husband broke into his ex wife's killed her and staged it to look like a break in. Same thing break the window from the inside.
A friend of mine told me when she worked at Lover’s Package they had a “Help Wanted” sign posted at the entrance. A girl walks in, fills out an application, and shoplifts a $100 item (can’t remember what it was). Police hilarity ensued. 😄😄😄
We had something very similar. Guy and a girl walk in and fill out applications to work at our warehouse, then walk out and break into a few employees' cars before leaving. Naturally the police are given the applications. These idiots apparently used each other's sir names and each other's phone numbers on the applications.
This isn't exciting but a girl in my grade got caught stealing another girls shirt. She was wearing it under her blouse when the other girl noticed. She was ostracized, ignored and I think suspended eventually. High school girls can be really scary at times.
Damn, how long ago was this? Nowadays, students don't even get in trouble for sexual harassment or calling a nonwhite (but NOT black) person racist slurs!
@@randomhooman9505 you think thats worse?? I was once called a 'sh*t fa***t' in sophomore year of HS for no apparent reason. And that was only 2 years ago smh
Someone where I lived manged to pull a cash machine out of the wall how I don't know but somehow they ended up stuck with it on top of them injured but not dead , only way I can think they pulled it most if the way out with something like a car and the tired to pull it the last bit by hand and didn't realise the weight of it
A guy about 5.4 tried to rob our till at 7:05 am after I clocked in one day at my old job. The weird part about it was he just stood there with it in his hand calmly. When I asked him why he was doing this he said he was doing this to feed his family. The registers never had more then 50 bucks in them but my manager got it back and he rolled off to jail. No car, no weapon, or common sense for that matter he wasn't the only one we caught though I'm just glad he was the stupid kind of criminal. It seems more like he just lost a bet or something.
@@djimma5080 I bet the dumbass' friend was in a truck, yanked it full throttle out of the wall on top of him and when he realized he couldn't get him out just unhooked his truck and took off
I had my bike stolen once, and my mom caught the guy (full grown man) riding it down the street. I was a 14 year old girl, and it was a bright pink and purple "girly" bike. She stopped him, began snapping pictures, and screamed at him until he put it in the trunk of her car. It was amazing.
19:05 Biggest guy on my hockey team goes home after training to find a burglary in process. Teammate never touched the guy, only blocked his exit holding his stick. Would be thief was visibly relieved when the police arrived
My friend, co worker; VA in Western PA 🏥 had a drunk guy break into his house, Sat morning 430am. He had a snub .38spl revolver. He was a retired US military veteran, 083 police. My co worker restrained the drunk & called 911 ☎️. 90% of the VA staff asked why he did not shoot the thug. My friend said his VA-police training helped him.
Guy broke into an electronics shop. He tried to steal the security camera that was mounted to the counter. Looked directly into it as he tried to pull it up. Gave up & stole other things. He was found like a week later from the security footage
My 10th grade gym teacher told this story: there was a student at the Highschool that had all of the keys for the building since he was an assistant for the office. He stole a ton of different things that were pricy(projectors and whatnot). Though a teacher overheard him talking about his eBay and how he was selling a bunch of stuff. So the teacher looked it up, found the stolen items, and the student was arrested. I think he was charged with a felony since it was thousands of dollars of stuff.
I witnessed a crime in progress once, but it got halted in its tracks pretty quickly because it was so stupid. Basically three guys were at a car dealership looking to test drive a car. They filled out the paperwork and then the sales person escorted them out to the car, and then right in front of him, they jumped in and tried to just drive away and steal the car... with the giant price board still over the windscreen... in front of a glass building where everyone could see them... under a security camera... with the sales person standing in front of the car... after they'd just signed their names, addresses and contact information. It couldn't have looked any dumber. They tried to swerve around the sales person, but the road was too narrow, and then the rest of the dealership staff came out and surrounded the car so that they couldn't move, and one of them called the police. I was walking past on my way home when all of this happened, and I got my phone out to call the cops when they first came out to the car because they looked real shifty, but once I saw them surrounded and sitting in the car with their heads in their hands at how stupid their escape attempt had been, and one of the staff with the phone in his hand, I thought "yeah, they don't need me here" XD
Terr0rByte1 also they can trace the car... they’re all on file and they could have GPS trackers on them, so many things that would lead to you getting busted
A customer was using a stolen card to order food for delivery. The card owner came by to ask if we had a picture of the person, and that they where gathering info to file a police investigation. We couldn’t give him any information directly except to the authorities. But nonetheless cancelled the charge on his card. The customer placed another order a few hours later after the first was canceled for not having card and ID, and provided proper card and ID, we now had all the information on the person and where able to provide that to the police.
TLDR: Nephews steal 4 cases of beer, dump out the cans and get caught returning them for the deposit and hour later at the same store. I have these two nephews who obviously didn't win the I.Q. lottery. When they were about 14 they decided they needed some money. So they go into the local Safeway and each grabs a case of beer in each hand and make a run for it. They then proceed the hide in the woods behind the store and dump out all the beer. This was in a very small town so Safeway was the only place where you could return cans for the deposit. The idiots only waited about an hour before walking back into the store. Police were promptly called and they were arrested. So many things wrong with their thinking. #1 Didn't disguise themselves in any way. #2 Returned to the scene of the crime with the evidence in hand. #3 Could have probably found that many cans by searching the ditches. #4 At that time 4 cases of beer would have netted about $100 if they sold them to underage party goers. #5 They would have only earned $2.40 from the crime if successful.
tbh, I and some friends could 'break into' a local shop's lockup storage barn (a door bottom hinge was rusted through) to take deposit return pop bottles, dump the contents and _return_ the bottles for the deposit. We never got caught and I doubt the shop owner ever caught onto the scam. That was over 6 decades ago, so I doubt the cops would be interested in our criminal behaviour now.
My boss' dad drives a skip bin truck (think of the large industrial bins you often see on building sites) and one of his regular clients was a public housing apartment building. He had an arrangement where he could store an empty skip bin out there. One day he comes out to site to pick one up and there are two hoods hiding in it. "Out!" says Nigel, "I'm taking this one elsewhere." "Just take us around the corner," one of them pleads. He loads the skip with these two "criminal masterminds" aboard, and sees a police car ahead of him, the officers talking to one of the residents. "I think I've got something you might be interested in" he says. He then starts the hydraulics on his truck and tips the two hoods into the street. Similar story: Two shoplifters decide to hide in a dumpster at a shopping centre. This will be a bad day for them, because today is the day the dumpster gets emptied. For those of you that don't know, the truck lifts it up with tines like a forklift, lifts it over the cab and tips the contents into the back. A large compactor blade pushes the load back , making room for the next load. The shoplifters are tipped into the back, and if that wasn't bad enough, the next job on the driver's run was a police station! The police and the surprised driver both discover these two morons when they start shouting and banging on the inside of the hopper
A smart cop vs a dumb criminal story. My brother's job site had a storage container. They found it was broken into and his tools were gone, along with a lot of other items. When the police were notified, one of their officers had stopped a man the night before with a few generators in his pickup. It looked suspicious but he couldn't hold him. Instead, he took down the serial numbers. They matched the stolen ones. The police raided the dirtbag's garage and got all the stolen items back. Stealing from working men is pretty low.
About 25 years ago, my wife and I owned a company making gym-wear (t-shirts, leotards etc) and oversized clothing for bodybuilders. Our own brand of clothing. Our own design. One night we were burgled and about 6,000 new shirts and pants were taken. The items taken were the first batch of newly designed and manufactured styles and patterns, so pretty distinctive. The next two weekends we went around within a 60 mile radius to all the Sunday markets where people would sell stuff from their car boots (trunk for the US readers) we would turn up REALLY early, as the sellers were sill setting up, but before any trading had started. On the second Sunday, at the second market we got to that morning, we saw a guy and his girlfriend putting OUR clothing on a table to sell that day. Went straight around to the police station. The cops came back with us to the market and we showed them the stuff. Guy claimed the clothing was legitimately his and he had bought it from a wholesaler. With photos, design drawings, receipts and mail to and from our manufacturing factory, we were able to show to the cops and then again later in the court trial that the clothing was NOT available anywhere else in the world, except from us and that what was stolen was the first and ONLY batch of those designs in existence. There were no wholesalers anywhere who had this product line available. The couple spent 3 months in jail for that.
I had my debit card details stolen once in south africa, he didn't lose a single penny because the culprit always tried to buy $300 dollar flowers from a website and it was always over the credit card cap :). I blocked my card immediately
This was hilarious but maybe you had to be there. I worked in fast food. We'd had a series of thefts and the owner got fed up and finally installed security cameras. We had a manager, let's call her Judy, who was dating a man with a perpetually unemployed adult son. She insisted we give the son a job. We were all against it, but she put her foot down. So his first day all he has to do is watch training videos on the office computer. The second they closed the door he started ransacking the place looking for anything he could steal. Unless you really need some paperclips or a ballpoint pen there was NOTHING worth stealing in there. He even dumped out a bottle of aspirin, apparently hoping there were cool drugs inside. After a few minutes he looked up and saw the camera. He climbed on the chair and stared directly into it. Then he turned around and stared at the monitor on the opposite wall where he could see the back of his own head. Then he stared into the camera some more, like he still wasn't 100% sure is WAS a camera. We watched that footage 20 times and it was funnier every time. In the end he stole $3 out of Judy's purse. Yeah, he stole from the lady who got him the job in the first place. The owner had invested a lot of money in those security cameras and was determined to get some use out of them. They pressed charges. We paid people for the time they spent training. If he had just watched those videos, or even just pretended to, he would have made like $20. Or he could have, you know, actually taken the job and made way more money than that. He threw it all away for that big $3 score!
my parents used to own a convenience store. One time at night, a man broke in to steal cigarettes. He had a hood up, making it hard to see who he was. He got up on the counter, filled a bag with cigarettes, looked right at the security camera, and took his hood down.
This takes place many years ago. Think duplex type houses . Someone rented from my parents. They stole stuff from my parents. My mom didn't listen to me. It was the neighbor. Is that weird that I knew who it was? The guys that did that did their time. Just hope they staying clean.
When I lived in a bigger city (200k ppl maybe) I took a liking to getting a taxi after a night out. One night the bar's cc machine took a dump, so they required cash to settle my tab. Not a problem, I always kept an emergency fund on my person. Well I had to use my credit card for the ride home, and the driver was unusually fidgety and complained about the machine while he flipped the card over. (I didn't realize at the time he was memorizing/copying the 3 digit security code) Sure enough a week later the dung-for-brains guy had racked up over 400 dollars worth of crap music and xbox games. I immediately purchased an off-shores web "service" using his xbox account (self-crash IP attack used to cheat games) The Taxi company did nothing, neither did police. My bank already refunded me all the money. For revenge I downloaded an app that let me spoof phone numbers and emulated local businesses/gov services. The Taxi company stopped servicing every large, lucrative business soon after due to "ghosted" ride requests. They were soon bought out by a different company, and like 3 of their cars were found burned in the landfill. Guess they didn't want the secret drug dugouts being investigated.
One of my school friends once had his bike stolen. Shortly after this they saw it in the window of a pawn shop, with the person who pawned it being dumb enough to leave their actual details with the store. She of course got arrested.
My dad worked for 30+ years at a Small, Family-Owned Orchard. Because he could fix tractors, do electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, pour concrete, hang drywall, patch leaky roofs, drive the forklift, demo old buildings on the property, AND all the work associated with picking, cleaning, packing and storing fruit, AND make cider in the fall, they relied on him heavily all year round and he was often one of the first guys there in the morning and one of the last to leave at the end of the day. The employees were allowed to eat as much fresh fruit as they wanted at work. When they found something unusual, like two apples merged into one, they could take that home. When stuff was getting old enough that it had to be used right away, the bosses would let them take it home - we got loads of apples, peaches, plums, and nectarines that way and made pies, jelly, jam canned applesauce and fruit salad. At Christmas time, he'd buy each of my aunts' and uncles' families a bushel of number one apples (no bruises, defects, odd shapes or holes where the stem of one apple poked another, they were flawless, and of course, the most expensive grade, though, apples in Pennsylvania, nothing that was going to break the bank, but the point is, he paid for them). The mother of one of Dad's coworkers had a home-based business selling pies, jams and jellies. Dude walks out with a couple of bushels of fruit (think four large paper grocery bags full and neatly rounded on top) two or three days a week when it's in season, far and away more than the freebies the bosses were giving out. My dad would even help him carry it out if they were leaving at the same time. Four or five years after the guy started there, his mom decides to donate 100 pies to a church fundraiser. Someone at the church knows someone at the local TV news station and wants to give the mom a pat on the back for her generosity, so gets the news station to do a story so she can plug her business. Reporters interview two or three people who all say how good her pies are, how they're the only ones they buy for Thanksgiving and Christmas, how hubby never wants a cake, just a pie for his birthday, etc. Then they interview the guy's mom. Natural question, what makes your pies so good? "Well, I get all my fruit from Small, Family-Owned Orchard." Well, the father who started the orchard and his three kids who helped run it all watched that news station. They realized this guy had to be taking home more fruit than just the weird and old stuff they gave away, and then they realized that he had never paid any of them for any of it. There were some Awkward Conversations the next day. First they asked the girls who ran retail stand how much he was buying. None. Nobody realized he hadn't been paying anybody because everybody assumed he'd been paying somebody else. Then they asked my dad how much he'd been taking home. Dude had stolen thousands of dollars of fruit from them over the years. He wasn't arrested. He wasn't even fired. The two families had been friends for generations. The guy's mom slapped the snot out of him (he was in his thirties) because she didn't realize he'd been stealing the fruit for her business all along and the Small, Family-Owned Orchard folks were content to shame and humilate him about it for years. And from then on, anything my dad wanted to buy from them, he was told, "Keep your money. Take it home." He's been retired for ten years now and they still let him take whatever he wants from the farm stand when he drops by to visit.
31:45 A friend of my dad's was a crime scene analyst, and he said they busted at least 6 guys for stealing from the evidence room in his career, mostly electronics. Once, it was a $2000 Korth competition pistol... with the owner's name engraved on it. Yeah... Cops are occasionally not the sharpest tools in the shed. Or the evidence room, apparently!
I don't have reddit, but once I went to a trip to Hawaii, and left my credit card at home since I was going with my family and my parents were going to buy everything, but anyway, so I left it at home and went on my way. This guy broke into my house, took my credit card, and bought a crap ton of stuff on eBay and Way fair. The guy forgot to change the address and all of the stuff got shipped to my house, and the dude didn't even bother to come and get it! Soo let's just say I got a crap load of stuff and the criminal dude got my de-activated credit card. 😎
• Kale • actually that isn’t stupid to have it delivered to your house usually they do that on purpose because u can just look up what address it was shipped to therefor giving themselves away also it might be a red flag for your card and get your card locked so they won’t be able to get the stuff so they ship it to your address and then just swing by your place to pick it up once it’s delivered
I grew up in a small town- 2 idiots broke in to the local liquor store... after stealing bottles and bottles of booze used a local taxi to "get away" (oh and had no cash to pay for the taxi... offered the driver booze for payment). As you can imagine they didn't get far. LOL
It's not a stupid criminal story, but it's how i caught my ex-wife cheating on me. Our son had a copy of my wife's credit card for when he was at school 200 miles away (for emergencies). I get a call one day asking about suspected fraud, and the first question they asked was about a Wal-Mart purchase for about $20 in my son's college town, which i told them was expected. Then they asked about a purchase at a Wal-Mart in our town at about the same time (within one hour)... I cancelled the card, and put in a fraud complaint. Told my (nox ex) wife, and she chewed me out! Turns out she had given her new boy a copy of her card as well.
So, on the $900 bike, where the kid got the bike from his uncle (the dirty(?) cop), I take it the cop knew it had been found but lied, then gave it to the kid? Or did the cop have the bike stolen on behalf of the kid? Either way, the cop must've known the bike wad stolen & should've faced some kind of consequences!!
The cop probably recovered it then gave it away. The police station was in on it which is why it went to court. The only reason it was dropped when the judge walked in is because the correct owner had all the evidence to corroborate their story and would have made the officer look bad
My friend’s dad was robbed a few years ago. They rummaged through his car and you’ll never what they took. He had golfing gear with thousands as well as a really expensive camera. Did they take it? Nope they took a signed Toby Mac c.d. and a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies that my friend was selling. Honestly what a fat mood.
I'm 65 YO man, and 3 or 4 months ago, had 3 high schooler's follow me through the grocery store for 6 or 7 minutes and followed me into the parking lot. I reached into my hip pocket and took out my business card turned and handed it to the first teen. Looking at each of them I said "I really hope your going to do something stupid." now for the funny part, I am a 2nd degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. I own my own school teaching martial arts and self defense going on 12 years mow. The leader handed the card to his friends, put his hands up and walked away. I look a bit frail I do admit. so they figured I would be an easy target. so never judge an old balding man by his appearance.
Used to work at a pawn shop and the dumbest criminal award went to the guy that robbed employees cars in full view of the security cameras then came in and tried to pawn/sell the stolen stuff to the person whose car he just robbed. He also waited patiently for us to check prices until cops showed up
Some broke into my car last night, i called the cops and when they looked in my car and a small bag with the criminals driver license and release papers from prison. Not the brightest criminal
This girl at a summer camp who I was kind of friends with told me that she wanted food from the concession stand at the ice rink we were going to but didn't have any money. Her thing was to ask a person if they had any money and if they would share it with her. I told her I hadn't brought any money. She tells me she's going to steal something while the campers were getting their skates and asks if I want to join her. The rack of chip bags was right next to the skate rental booth. I said no and walked away from her to go sit in the bleachers and read because I didn't know how to ice skate and wasn't interested in learning. Walked back out maybe 5 minutes later because I needed the bathroom and see her holding bag of chips and fighting with the employee. They had seen and heard her snag the bag when the counselor and campers turned their backs. She denies it and claims that she paid for it. They say they have cameras and would call the police if she didn't return it. She did and was mad about being caught.
The dumbest I've seen would have had to been a dude who stole a pipe I got from reggae fest. We were smoking with my best friend and for some reason I had to leave. When I came back the pipe was missing yet no one had left. I looked every where for it but couldn't find it. I had left my friends house for the night feeling pretty bad about losing it. A week goes by and I find out from my best friend that one of the dudes they were hanging out with stole my pipe and used it to smoke with them. I was pissed since he was the first person to try and help me find it. We went over to my friends house to my friends house to get the dude to come clean. He didnt so we almost got into a fight. I didnt end up fighting him but my twin brother did. He beat his ass since my brother has 40 pounds on me at the time. A man got his ass beaten for a 40 Egyptian themed pipe. The dumb part was smoking with my best friend. He is someone I consider to be like family.
Just a few days ago there was an escapee from a correctional facility recaptured locally. He had escaped for less than 12 hours. He was going to be released in the early fall, but now he'll be spending another year or more locked up. Seems pretty stupid to me, escaping when you really don't have much left on your sentence.
Had a fellow employee at my last job who quit, gave notice and everything, and on her final day she stole about $3k in rolled coins from the safe in the back room. Questions bounced around the next day about it when I came in, and we figured out it was her pretty quick- she was scheduled for that day at that time that we all saw her leave, and the contents of the safe were accounted for down to the dime every six hours. This was somehow the least scandalous stupidity to take place at that job.
I have 2. Worked retail, and was cleaning shelves in the toy department. Found in the back of one of the shelves the packaging from a pair of toy hand cuff that someone had ripped open and stolen the cuffs... But they left the keys behind. Another, someone hacked my eBay account and tried to buy a $1300 laptop to somewhere in China. I had $20 in my bank account, and the different country sent up a Red Flag for eBay and Paypal, so the sale was denied.
When I was in high school (early 1990s) I was a seasonal worker at Sears. It was December, and I used my employee discount to buy a bunch of gifts for my boyfriend and family after my shift one night. Afterward, I went over to a get together at my boyfriend's friend's house. After the party, I went to go home and saw that my window had been forced down (if was an old car from the 70s and the windows were easy to force down), and someone had stolen all the gifts I'd just bought, plus the portable TV I kept in there (you could plug it into the cigarette lighter and watch TV in the car--obviously not while driving!). I was super upset! The next day I went into work and told all my coworkers and my manager what had happened and they all commiserated with me. A few hours into my shift, some guy comes in with several bags saying he wants to return a bunch of stuff. I start pulling things out of the bag and about three or four items in I realize these are the same things I'd purchased. It could be a coincidence, K think to myself, and continue pulling items out. After I'd pulled everything out it was obvious this was my stuff! There was just no way someone had bought the exact same twenty items I had! It was further confirmed when I pulled the receipt out of the bottom of the bag and saw my employee ID number on there! I told the guy I was new and would have to get a manager to help me process his return. I left him there, tracked down my manager, told him what was going on and showed him the receipt with my employee ID on it. He called security and followed me to the register. We "processed the return" slowly, buying time for security to call the cops and man the exits. The cops show up, question the guy and he insists this is his stuff. The cops ask him if he works for Sears and he says no. Then they say then why is there an employee discount on this transaction and he says his mom is an employee at a Sears in another city. The cops then inform him thay he had the misfortune of trying to return the items he'd stolen to the register of the person he'd robbed! Told him the manager had confirmed that the employee discount number listed on the receipt is registered as mine, and he's going to jail! While the merchandise had to be taken by the cops because it was evidence, the manager let me grab replacement items so that I would have gifts for my family and boyfriend (Christmas was about a week and a half away) and said they'd get the items back when the guy's court case was over. Hopefully, this guy thought twice before ever robbing someone again!
Several years ago, in a town that is 45 minutes from my home, an individual paid for a meal at a fast food place with a $200 bill and the cashier gave him change! It was all over the radio and news for a few days! My other story wasn't so much a dumb criminal, but a funny bank teller! My boyfriend at the time took me to the bank, because I'm visually impaired and cannot see well enough to drive. I was at the front desk, filling something out, and there was a long line of people behind me. The teller whispered, "Hee-hmm...Hee-HUMM! Psst!...Miss...MISS?!?" I looked up and she was right in my face. I said, "What?" She replied, "That man is standing very close behind you!" I glanced over my shoulder, then pointed at him with my pen, and said, "Him?" She nodded. I said, "That's my boyfriend."
Years ago, a friend in Portland had her silverware stolen, worth about $10K at the time & was contacted by the thief by a phone call offer to sell it back. Sure, she said. She met him at a hotel with Detective Matheun right behind her.
I went to college in Chicago. Intro meeting at the dorm, the RA warns us that if you have something stolen, go on down to Maxwell Street (see the Blues Brothers movie cafe site) and walk around and someone will offer to sell you your stolen item. As he was speaking, a tardy student walked in with a busted bike chain lock--from the RA's (now former) bike. I won't say it was a bad neighborhood, but it was said that if you needed a bike, you could just walk up to a kid with a nice one and yell "THAT'S MY BIKE!!!"--if the kid dropped it and ran, it WAS now your bike. Door cat-flap wallet caper: I actually investigated two unrelated rape-murder cases in which the suspect left his wallet/driver license at the scene---one was on the bloody bed, the other was between the victim's legs.
I had a shoplifter come back in twice in the space of 4 days last month, tried it on with exactly the same bags of sweets both times and I caught them both times.
Was in a shop and some kid was spotted shoplifted and he bolted. The shop clerk chose not to do anything since they had him on CCTV. I walked outside and he was right there just out of view from the shop eating the bag of sweets he'd nicked.
my step brother stole $3,000 from my step mom over the course of one summer. he did it by sneaking inside from his room in the separated garage attic when he thought everyone was asleep, take my step mom’s card out of her bag which she kept on a chair in the living room, then he would go back out to the garage and go through garage door to leave the house being heard instead of using the front door (one of the bedrooms is right next to the front door), and then go over to the gas station across the street to withdraw cash from the ATM. my step brother would then return home and put the card back into my step mom’s purse the same way. what he didn’t take into account was: 1) all of those transactions times show up on my step mom’s bank record and 2) i‘m a night owl so i was wide awake when he thought everyone was asleep and i could hear him whenever he entered the house to take step mom’s card/put it back and could confirm to my parents that he had indeed been stealing money from my step mom.
A while back one of my neighbors stole my trash can. Like a big green one. It was no big deal it's just a trash can. So we didn't really care. But a couple days later we were coming back from church and they put the fricken thing outside of their house. So we ended up just taking it back.
Not mine but my Mom's. She works as a operator for a Hospital and she frequently gets Scam Calls. One time she had someone claiming that someone made a purchase on her Amazon and they wanted to confirm. She gave them the number to a different department then hung up. Her coworker just started and asked "Did you just give them the number for (tbh I forgot the department she said it was probably HR not too sure-)" and she replied yes. Fast Forward like 15 minuets later she gets a call from the same person. They tell her the number didn't work and ask for it again. She just burped and hung up. Another time from my mom is when they called her about her Cars Extended Warranty... I kid you not she went: "EXCUSE ME DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT? I'M BLIND THEY TOOK MY CAR AWAY FROM ME 5 YEARS AGO AND NOW YOU PEOPLE HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ASK IF I WANNA EXTEND THE WARRANTY!? WHAT'S YOUR NAME I WANNA SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER" The person on the other end apologized and hung up
I've heard many stories: -The guy who thought if he covered his face with lemon juice (which is used in invisible ink), know one could see his face. He tried to rob a bank. Let's just say, it didn't work out. -The guy who thought robbing a gun store with a knife and baseball bat was a good idea -Woman who when to the police to complain about the quality of the crack she'd just bought -Anyone who calls a store/bank/place to warn them they are coming or to ask how much money they have There's more, but I don't want this to turn into an a hundred page volume.
Watched a couple of idiots attempt to rob the bank at the entrance to a big box retailer. They ran into the building and turned left into the first door. One of them fired a round into the ceiling shouting "This is a robbery." The problem was that there was a police substation across the entrance from the bank and they turned left instead of right. The robbery attempt was also ill timed as when they entered the police were in their shift briefing. The 2 robbers ended up with 17 bullet holes and were promptly arrested when released from hospital.
My friend works in a convenience store. He had a guy come in to buy smokes and asked him for ID. He produced his driver's license to buy the smokes and then as my friend opened the till to make change the man pulled his gun and robbed him. The police were at his door about 3 hours later arresting him. He crapped his pants when the police informed him that my friend has a photographic memory and he was stupid enough to show his ID with his name, address, and birth date on it.
Had a teacher in 10th Grade, he told us a story that in Walmart as he was checking out his groceries a dude was shop lifting a little pack of powder donuts. Now, these donuts were dirt cheap (1 to 2$’s) and as you can imagine he was caught. The employees were very chill about it and were giving him two options. The first option was to just return the packet of donuts, leave, and no one gets hurt. The other option was he would leave with the donuts but would get caught by the police. The dude pauses, looks at the donuts, looks back at them and just runs for the exit. The employees just sigh and get back to work. When the teacher was leaving the store, the dude that stole the donuts was getting arrested.
I like the one around 15:40 where the criminal opened up a credit card in somebody's name and made purchases but was then paying the balance on time. So really this criminal was just building this person's credit lol. I really wish somebody would do that for me!
This made the news in Saint Louis. A drunk driver tried to buy fast food at a POLICE SUBSTATION. After saying a dozen times "This isn't Ya Ya Burger." "This is 5th District Police." "B.S. give my food man." The police managed to arrest the drunk driver without incident. And charged them with D.U.I, which they plead guilty to.
That story where the prosecutor refused to drop the charges against the kid whose bike was stolen until the judge walked in is the exact reason people are protesting in saying defund the police.
My dad had his debit card stolen once. The dude tried to buy a bunch of expensive gaming equipment but couldn't transfer payment because there wasn't that much money in the card. He tried switching currencies. Soon after, the bank noticed the peculiar use of the card and froze it.
Reminds me of the time some people got into my Amazon account and threw $100 onto my account and left their card details on my account. Dropped their card after confirming it was not the card of any of my family members and just kept the $100 and bought gifts for my family, mostly supported by that money, that Christmas.
this 'cool' guy from my class had been stealing candy bars from a store in town close to our school for a couple weeks. never quit because it always went according to plan until one time he stole some, went back because he wanted more but grabbed a couple and stuffed them into his jacket RIGHT NEXT a store worker. he had to empty his bag and everything and there they found even more bars from the raid earlier. i remember waiting in front on the store i was interning at the time seeing him in a police car on his way to the station a couple buildings next to the store i interned at.
I know a guy who took the cops on a drunken car chase. Ran out of gas, then jumped off the side of a drainage wash to escape. He broke both of his ankles when he fell. He then tried to desperately crawl for it before he was arrested. He was out of work for months.
I don't know if anything in the video or comments said this but I saw the title and thought of my answer really quickly and it kinda gave me a quick chuckle so I thought I'd put it out here... I once saw a video of a guy robbing a bank without a mask on... IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC
I saw a video where 2 idiots were trying to break into a house by shattering the sliding glass door, they both picked up a large brick to throw at the door, the accidentally throw it at the same time, the guy in front who was closer to the window successfully hit it, but then the guy behind him hit the first guy and knocked him out cold😂 I nearly pissed myself watching it oml
Mariet Judyn Wait, even if they threw their bricks at the same time, why would that cause the guy in back to throw the brick directly at his partner’s head?
I work in retail and the amount of people that don't realize we have cameras or something is just amazing. I've watched people stand directly under the cameras stuffing things in bags and down their jackets, and I just can't with these kind of people. Especially when they also buy stuff because they clearly can afford to buy it and the cost of getting busted is gonna be greater than stealing a $5 shirt or a few pieces of $4 jewelry. Some people are just a hot mess, and not the good kind.
Perhaps my favorite: A guy had a custom-made ring that he always showed to everyone. One day he commented that he'd lost it. It turned up shortly thereafter--at the autopsy, behind the liver of a murdered/mutilated woman who, with her daughter, also murdered, was found in her apartment. A trail of blood led from there to his apartment, five doors down. His fingerprint was also found at the crime scene--in blood--on the wall over the little girls bed, with her in it. It took twenty years but he was executed. Hockey players: Read a news story abou a guy who, seeing a game in progress, ran in and stole the ball. He didn't notice the game was right behind the police station and the players were cops. I worked on two different cases in which a girl was raped and murdered. The guy's walet and ID were found between her naked legs in both crimes.
Working Sears there was a couple who would come in and buy around $10,000 worth of tool/lawn equipment with counterfeit $100 bills mixed in with the real ones. They got caught and tried to blame it on working a yard sale but the cops found everything in the garage.
Growing up we had the Neighborhood Thief, we’ll call Thomas. Thomas was in and out of jail mostly for breaking into people’s houses. He kept getting caught cause he didn’t actually leave the neighborhood to do it so any time someone had their house broken into and the police came to do their reports, you’d just point them over to Thomas’s place. So already not a criminal mastermind. Well one night my family got home from some school event I’d had on the weekend and our house had been broken into and some of our valuables taken. Police come and we send them to go check out Thomas. One of the things that had been stolen was my Dad’s laptop which he’d just gotten back from getting repaired. This meant it still had the sticker with my father’s full name stuck right on top. Police find it and ask him about it, but Thomas keeps insisting that it’s his even when they’re pointing at the sticker and saying that it’s clearly not. Back to jail he went!
1992...just a few weeks after light-up shoes were introduced. Dumb criminal robs a place. Takes off through some dark woods. Obviously the cops had no problem following and arresting him.
I worked for a SO in the south. Methamphetamines were per usual out of control... Well, Sudafed was a primary ingredient in cooking it and my ex wife worked for a local pharmacy. I used to go see her on my lunch break and eat with her. I'm in the parking lot, in uniform, walking towards the door. I am met by one of our local neighborhood meth heads... Guy is wasted, no clue whether he is on Earth or Mars... He stops me and asks if I can buy him Sudafed for his I'll child (there is a system that blocked sales after so many purchases at the time before it required a script). I just look at him in awe, having locked him up the week prior. I asked him to take a second and think about what he just said... He leans closer and asks again, for me to buy him meth making ingredients while I am in uniform and being the last one to lock him up for meth... You can't fix stupid.
While in college and working at Blockbuster. My co-worker was busted for stealing. Each morning she would steal $20 or so from her till, then short-ring people during the day to replace it in the till. She was smart enough to cover the camera on her till when she lifted the $20, but not smart enough to just cover the camera with a cloth. Instead, she opted to disconnect the cable attached to the camera's backside. The manger began to notice the camera was often askew, and so began to pay more attention to it, and suspect foul play. One morning that camera was blank, as the girl had not got the cable reattached properly. A count of the girl's till revealed the theft--Busted.
14:30 Not quite this. But a co worker from another district worked an overnight shift where we were locked into the store (for our safety as it was a bad area and myself and another co worker already had our catalytic converters taken). Anyways, this time the thieves took the damn whole truck. It has custom flames on it and was notice blue color. Myself, the guy, and the set up supervisor went to the police station. The worry was the truck might be in a chop shop. It was around 8:30. He was going to contact the dealership at 9 because he had a gps or something that they could activate. No joke, the truck drove right in front of the police station. I don't know what happened, except a couple cops jumped into a car. My shift ended at 9, so the supervisor let me go.
some thugs tried to rob a wedding ceremony in my country, little did they know that the in laws are some sort of special forces major, so yeah 60% of the guest are from the military. that didnt end well for them.
A guy walks into my store clad in a stereotypical brown trench coat in the middle of summer and proceeds to grab two arm fulls of those cheap discount DVD’s that you find in bulk boxes and stuffs them into the trench coat. He did all of this in front of my produce manager who was standing like 5 feet away looking right at him. As he tries to make a break for the exit our security guard and three managers tackle him to the ground and proceed to carry him to the security office with him screaming I’M NOT A CRIMINAL MAN!! While he flails around the DVD’s he tried to steal flies out of his trench coat and all along the floor proving to anyone who was doubting his guilt if there were any that yeah he was totally a criminal man!!
For anyone curious, the people who have things sent to the stolen cards owners house, that isnt always a dumb criminal (or at least a reason for them being dumb.) They want proof of adrees for a whole seperate scam. I cant remember specifics, but its also why sometimes people recieve things they didnt even order, still in their name but never paid for. Google "known scams."
Happened in Cologne, Germany, about 10 or 15 yrs ago. I was visiting my then gf in the hospital. When she was taken downstairs to have an examination done I decided to go stretch my legs for a bit and take a walk around the block. Dude approaches me. Hunched over, looking over his shoulder. He then asks me whether if was interested in buying a computer. I politely decline. He is not having it and plonks down a large sports bag from his shoulder and opens it. „Come on man, it’s a nice computer and I give you a great price!“ At that point my BS radar starts going crazy. In that bag I can indeed see small PC tower case and also a bunch of cordless phones, something that looked like one of these desktop label printers and other nicknacks. I again decline politely but firmly and tell him that I really need to be going because I am on my way to the hospital to see my gf (so I did not even have to lie...). He looks bummed out but shuffles on. Once I am round the corner I call the cops. I give them a description and tell them what happened. Also told them that I suspect the goods were probably stolen. I leave my details and go about my business. Few months later I get a letter from the police dept asking me to come in for an interview. I oblige and tell them again what happened that day. After finishing, the officer asks me whether I have any questions. I ask them why this dude thought it would be a great idea to approach a random stranger in the street to sell a computer, of all things. He then tells me the guy was trying to get some money to buy drugs. The computer, phones and some other items were stolen hours earlier the same day from a car dealership near the hospital that this guy had broken into. So...Not the sharpest tool in the shed, that guy. I hope he is doing okay though.
6:15 reminds me of a story i read in a book: a clumsy poacher left an impression of his truck's licence plate in a snowbank, leading to his arrest. 8:53 reminds me: a minor celebrity was being interviewed by a bunch of reporters. a pickpocket stole wallets from several reporters, then ran for it. the celebrity was an Olympic gold medal runner, so he easily ran the crook down! 9:48 reminds me of that funny scene in "code of silence" where two crooks try to rob a bar, and EVERYONE in the bar is a cop! 14:47 reminds me of a story where two crooks stole a utility workers' truck. they couldn't figure out how to TURN OFF THE YELLOW FLASHING LIGHTS ON TOP! 29:49 reminds me of a story of a crook who tried to steal a large air conditioner from the roof of a restaurant, using only a metal knife...and cut into an electric line! ZAP! he survived, but he was still dazed when police arrived. 33:38 reminds me of a comic book where some crooks sneaked up behind an armored car whole it was parked at a bank, grabbed two large bags, and ran...only to find the bags contained nothing but EMPTY BAGS! i think it was "the beagle boys".
I've heard a story slightly like the burglar who broke into an apartment that housed newly hired police officers. It happened at a bank in Washington DC in the early 1990s. A bank robber learned the hard way that being rude and impatient can have consequences. He was in line and already had his disguise on. Because it was Saturday, he wanted to get to the teller window before they shut down for the afternoon. He got grumpy and shoved his way to the front and produced a stickup note. The clerk started to LAUGH. He was confused and realized she was looking behind him. He turned around.
And found himself staring at 6 gun barrels. The men in business suits he shoved past were newly recruited FBI agents trying to open up new direct deposit accounts for their paychecks. I bet they had a fun argument over who got the honor of slapping the cuffs on him...
Lovely
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BEST story EVER!!!😆😆😆👍👍👍👍
my dad had his debit card stolen once. the thief tried to charge $3,000. no luck. $300? nope. then they tried $30 but again, it didn't go through. my dad had about $7 in his account at the time LMAO
Good thing your dad had overdraft disabled.
When that bad luck meme dude tries to rob you
Craig McPherson I’ll honestly never use a card with overdraft again. Not worth that risk
One time I had $ 2.20 in my account 😂
@@craigmcpherson1455 hey I don't wanna sound dumb because I just got a card (and I'm pretty young), but how do you disable the overdraft?
A guy I worked with years ago had a late 70's stock olds cutlass stolen. Police call him a month later saying they have recovered it. He goes down and identifies it but it now has custom rims and tires, an expensive sound system and new upholstery. Cops laughed their asses off because none of it was reported stolen so he got a car that was worth twice whats it was worth before being stolen
Pimp My Ride: non-consentual Edition
That's gotta be the best story
So is "pimping someone's ride" a crime? 😁😂
I looked it up and it’s a beautiful car (I love cars from the 60s, 70s, and 80s)
Nice... and the burglar’s out the money! Imagine if it was repainted his favourite colour too. I wouldn’t even be mad if this happened to me!
13:19 Beatings were issued.
So casually said, but oh so gratifying. I don't condone violence, but there is a small part of me who finds catharsis in karma.
James Haney Yeah, that one was priceless, especially with the delivery.
I don't condone it either. I believe instant karma is the most satisfying.
I had someone steal a 300 faucet on my jobsite but didn't take the installation parts. Good luck bro
U could probably get them separately
Wow. Just, wow.
Wouldn't a soaking wet , with wall etc parts sticking onto him - person look ..........OFF ?
I mean I was also almost kicked to shreds for.....hopping along to music by a teen
( Yeah I am tiny and underweight aka 80 lbs at 5 1 and I am beyond 35 ) If I hadn't made up my own dance to the music with a TURN at the end he would have hit my knee / tigh from behind and destroyed my face including implants, instead he suddenly faced me and even on semi pointe ( standing on the first joint of your toes) I could "lock" my knees and only stumbled a few steps backwards.
So much for "you training is a waste of time"....
If I had fallen and he decided to kick me in the back, I probably would write (if even) from a,wheelchair.
I have Osteoporosis.
(Same cause as the weight. Anorexia. )
@@quasimodo8959 u need to know what company and part it is some need special parts
@@quasimodo8959 that one was specific so not universal
Saw this on a documentary, a guy lets himself into his partners house, murders her and takes a bit of stuff and burns it. When he left the house he broke a window to make it look like a burglary. He broke the glass from the inside of the house...
Was this on forensic files on Netflix? I saw. a similar one where a husband broke into his ex wife's killed her and staged it to look like a break in. Same thing break the window from the inside.
Yeah 😂 I love that show, I can't remember the guys name
@@richardsanchez9190 ONG I was thinking of this exact same thing!!
@@richardsanchez9190 ONG I was thinking of this exact same thing!!
Oof
8:47 Don't steal valuables from a bunch of soccer players and try to escape on foot. They run ALL the time doing that sport.
And probably will kick the shit outta you WHEN they catch you
@@metaemperor And by that, you really will be kicked everywhere!
A friend of mine told me when she worked at Lover’s Package they had a “Help Wanted” sign posted at the entrance. A girl walks in, fills out an application, and shoplifts a $100 item (can’t remember what it was). Police hilarity ensued. 😄😄😄
Amazing Ace Why do these idiot opportunistic thieves seem to forget when they hand over their personal information?
We had something very similar. Guy and a girl walk in and fill out applications to work at our warehouse, then walk out and break into a few employees' cars before leaving. Naturally the police are given the applications. These idiots apparently used each other's sir names and each other's phone numbers on the applications.
@@13vatra So in addition to vandalism and theft they got forgery too? What brilliant individuals
This isn't exciting but a girl in my grade got caught stealing another girls shirt. She was wearing it under her blouse when the other girl noticed. She was ostracized, ignored and I think suspended eventually. High school girls can be really scary at times.
Ugh teenagers
Damn, how long ago was this? Nowadays, students don't even get in trouble for sexual harassment or calling a nonwhite (but NOT black) person racist slurs!
@@largol33t1 Yeah a dude called me a fish :/
@@randomhooman9505 PFT
@@randomhooman9505 you think thats worse?? I was once called a 'sh*t fa***t' in sophomore year of HS for no apparent reason. And that was only 2 years ago smh
I saw a dude try to rob a bank when the bank was closed. W a mask on and bag in hand, couldnt open the front door, cause it was locked. Good stuff.
Someone where I lived manged to pull a cash machine out of the wall how I don't know but somehow they ended up stuck with it on top of them injured but not dead , only way I can think they pulled it most if the way out with something like a car and the tired to pull it the last bit by hand and didn't realise the weight of it
A guy about 5.4 tried to rob our till at 7:05 am after I clocked in one day at my old job. The weird part about it was he just stood there with it in his hand calmly. When I asked him why he was doing this he said he was doing this to feed his family.
The registers never had more then 50 bucks in them but my manager got it back and he rolled off to jail.
No car, no weapon, or common sense for that matter he wasn't the only one we caught though I'm just glad he was the stupid kind of criminal. It seems more like he just lost a bet or something.
@@djimma5080 I bet the dumbass' friend was in a truck, yanked it full throttle out of the wall on top of him and when he realized he couldn't get him out just unhooked his truck and took off
I had my bike stolen once, and my mom caught the guy (full grown man) riding it down the street. I was a 14 year old girl, and it was a bright pink and purple "girly" bike. She stopped him, began snapping pictures, and screamed at him until he put it in the trunk of her car. It was amazing.
19:05 Biggest guy on my hockey team goes home after training to find a burglary in process. Teammate never touched the guy, only blocked his exit holding his stick. Would be thief was visibly relieved when the police arrived
What?
Jesus how can 1 guy scare a criminal so much he gets relieved when the police come
@@jxistxtic2306 Hockey players are absolutely massive dudes with hair trigger tempers.
My friend, co worker; VA in Western PA 🏥 had a drunk guy break into his house, Sat morning 430am. He had a snub .38spl revolver. He was a retired US military veteran, 083 police. My co worker restrained the drunk & called 911 ☎️. 90% of the VA staff asked why he did not shoot the thug. My friend said his VA-police training helped him.
Guy broke into an electronics shop. He tried to steal the security camera that was mounted to the counter. Looked directly into it as he tried to pull it up. Gave up & stole other things. He was found like a week later from the security footage
A guy set up a camera & caught his roommate stealing $20. Cops said it's not a big enough crime to pursue.
One of my friends got a felony for trying to rob a gas station on acid with a traffic cone
So your friend just... pointed a traffic cone at people like a gun? Did they think it was a bazooka?
@Colby Marcos Instaportal is a scam and it isn't even up anymore. I can't tell if you're joking, or if you're a bot.
My 10th grade gym teacher told this story: there was a student at the Highschool that had all of the keys for the building since he was an assistant for the office. He stole a ton of different things that were pricy(projectors and whatnot). Though a teacher overheard him talking about his eBay and how he was selling a bunch of stuff. So the teacher looked it up, found the stolen items, and the student was arrested. I think he was charged with a felony since it was thousands of dollars of stuff.
I witnessed a crime in progress once, but it got halted in its tracks pretty quickly because it was so stupid. Basically three guys were at a car dealership looking to test drive a car. They filled out the paperwork and then the sales person escorted them out to the car, and then right in front of him, they jumped in and tried to just drive away and steal the car... with the giant price board still over the windscreen... in front of a glass building where everyone could see them... under a security camera... with the sales person standing in front of the car... after they'd just signed their names, addresses and contact information. It couldn't have looked any dumber. They tried to swerve around the sales person, but the road was too narrow, and then the rest of the dealership staff came out and surrounded the car so that they couldn't move, and one of them called the police. I was walking past on my way home when all of this happened, and I got my phone out to call the cops when they first came out to the car because they looked real shifty, but once I saw them surrounded and sitting in the car with their heads in their hands at how stupid their escape attempt had been, and one of the staff with the phone in his hand, I thought "yeah, they don't need me here" XD
Terr0rByte1 that’s really brainless of them. “Ok, I just gave this guy my personal info, now let’s steal this car!”
@@cynicalsoup8134 Right? Even if they'd driven away, the police would have been able to know exactly who they were immediately.
Terr0rByte1 also they can trace the car... they’re all on file and they could have GPS trackers on them, so many things that would lead to you getting busted
On 'World's Dumbest Criminals' a guy fills out a job application, with his real info, then changes his mind & robs the store!
@@phlushphish793 OMFG priceless
A customer was using a stolen card to order food for delivery. The card owner came by to ask if we had a picture of the person, and that they where gathering info to file a police investigation. We couldn’t give him any information directly except to the authorities. But nonetheless cancelled the charge on his card. The customer placed another order a few hours later after the first was canceled for not having card and ID, and provided proper card and ID, we now had all the information on the person and where able to provide that to the police.
TLDR: Nephews steal 4 cases of beer, dump out the cans and get caught returning them for the deposit and hour later at the same store.
I have these two nephews who obviously didn't win the I.Q. lottery. When they were about 14 they decided they needed some money. So they go into the local Safeway and each grabs a case of beer in each hand and make a run for it. They then proceed the hide in the woods behind the store and dump out all the beer.
This was in a very small town so Safeway was the only place where you could return cans for the deposit. The idiots only waited about an hour before walking back into the store. Police were promptly called and they were arrested.
So many things wrong with their thinking. #1 Didn't disguise themselves in any way. #2 Returned to the scene of the crime with the evidence in hand. #3 Could have probably found that many cans by searching the ditches. #4 At that time 4 cases of beer would have netted about $100 if they sold them to underage party goers. #5 They would have only earned $2.40 from the crime if successful.
Drink the goddamn beer at least???? Jesus christ
Yeah, at least drink the beer instead of wasting it!
tbh, I and some friends could 'break into' a local shop's lockup storage barn (a door bottom hinge was rusted through) to take deposit return pop bottles, dump the contents and _return_ the bottles for the deposit. We never got caught and I doubt the shop owner ever caught onto the scam. That was over 6 decades ago, so I doubt the cops would be interested in our criminal behaviour now.
My boss' dad drives a skip bin truck (think of the large industrial bins you often see on building sites) and one of his regular clients was a public housing apartment building. He had an arrangement where he could store an empty skip bin out there. One day he comes out to site to pick one up and there are two hoods hiding in it. "Out!" says Nigel, "I'm taking this one elsewhere." "Just take us around the corner," one of them pleads. He loads the skip with these two "criminal masterminds" aboard, and sees a police car ahead of him, the officers talking to one of the residents. "I think I've got something you might be interested in" he says. He then starts the hydraulics on his truck and tips the two hoods into the street.
Similar story: Two shoplifters decide to hide in a dumpster at a shopping centre. This will be a bad day for them, because today is the day the dumpster gets emptied. For those of you that don't know, the truck lifts it up with tines like a forklift, lifts it over the cab and tips the contents into the back. A large compactor blade pushes the load back , making room for the next load. The shoplifters are tipped into the back, and if that wasn't bad enough, the next job on the driver's run was a police station! The police and the surprised driver both discover these two morons when they start shouting and banging on the inside of the hopper
A smart cop vs a dumb criminal story. My brother's job site had a storage container. They found it was broken into and his tools were gone, along with a lot of other items. When the police were notified, one of their officers had stopped a man the night before with a few generators in his pickup. It looked suspicious but he couldn't hold him. Instead, he took down the serial numbers. They matched the stolen ones. The police raided the dirtbag's garage and got all the stolen items back. Stealing from working men is pretty low.
About 25 years ago, my wife and I owned a company making gym-wear (t-shirts, leotards etc) and oversized clothing for bodybuilders. Our own brand of clothing. Our own design.
One night we were burgled and about 6,000 new shirts and pants were taken. The items taken were the first batch of newly designed and manufactured styles and patterns, so pretty distinctive.
The next two weekends we went around within a 60 mile radius to all the Sunday markets where people would sell stuff from their car boots (trunk for the US readers) we would turn up REALLY early, as the sellers were sill setting up, but before any trading had started.
On the second Sunday, at the second market we got to that morning, we saw a guy and his girlfriend putting OUR clothing on a table to sell that day.
Went straight around to the police station. The cops came back with us to the market and we showed them the stuff.
Guy claimed the clothing was legitimately his and he had bought it from a wholesaler. With photos, design drawings, receipts and mail to and from our manufacturing factory, we were able to show to the cops and then again later in the court trial that the clothing was NOT available anywhere else in the world, except from us and that what was stolen was the first and ONLY batch of those designs in existence. There were no wholesalers anywhere who had this product line available.
The couple spent 3 months in jail for that.
I had my debit card details stolen once in south africa, he didn't lose a single penny because the culprit always tried to buy $300 dollar flowers from a website and it was always over the credit card cap :). I blocked my card immediately
Nice seeing my shithole country represented so well.... Sigh
@@iamrazor9831 Isn't it depressing that none of us are surprised when we hear stories like this?
This was hilarious but maybe you had to be there. I worked in fast food. We'd had a series of thefts and the owner got fed up and finally installed security cameras. We had a manager, let's call her Judy, who was dating a man with a perpetually unemployed adult son. She insisted we give the son a job. We were all against it, but she put her foot down. So his first day all he has to do is watch training videos on the office computer. The second they closed the door he started ransacking the place looking for anything he could steal. Unless you really need some paperclips or a ballpoint pen there was NOTHING worth stealing in there. He even dumped out a bottle of aspirin, apparently hoping there were cool drugs inside.
After a few minutes he looked up and saw the camera. He climbed on the chair and stared directly into it. Then he turned around and stared at the monitor on the opposite wall where he could see the back of his own head. Then he stared into the camera some more, like he still wasn't 100% sure is WAS a camera. We watched that footage 20 times and it was funnier every time.
In the end he stole $3 out of Judy's purse. Yeah, he stole from the lady who got him the job in the first place. The owner had invested a lot of money in those security cameras and was determined to get some use out of them. They pressed charges.
We paid people for the time they spent training. If he had just watched those videos, or even just pretended to, he would have made like $20. Or he could have, you know, actually taken the job and made way more money than that.
He threw it all away for that big $3 score!
And some parasetamol, lol
my parents used to own a convenience store. One time at night, a man broke in to steal cigarettes. He had a hood up, making it hard to see who he was. He got up on the counter, filled a bag with cigarettes, looked right at the security camera, and took his hood down.
This takes place many years ago. Think duplex type houses . Someone rented from my parents. They stole stuff from my parents. My mom didn't listen to me. It was the neighbor. Is that weird that I knew who it was? The guys that did that did their time. Just hope they staying clean.
When I lived in a bigger city (200k ppl maybe) I took a liking to getting a taxi after a night out. One night the bar's cc machine took a dump, so they required cash to settle my tab. Not a problem, I always kept an emergency fund on my person. Well I had to use my credit card for the ride home, and the driver was unusually fidgety and complained about the machine while he flipped the card over. (I didn't realize at the time he was memorizing/copying the 3 digit security code) Sure enough a week later the dung-for-brains guy had racked up over 400 dollars worth of crap music and xbox games. I immediately purchased an off-shores web "service" using his xbox account (self-crash IP attack used to cheat games) The Taxi company did nothing, neither did police. My bank already refunded me all the money. For revenge I downloaded an app that let me spoof phone numbers and emulated local businesses/gov services. The Taxi company stopped servicing every large, lucrative business soon after due to "ghosted" ride requests. They were soon bought out by a different company, and like 3 of their cars were found burned in the landfill. Guess they didn't want the secret drug dugouts being investigated.
I love stories of people getting criminals busted.
The guy who took care of that trash in the park, you're a great person!
These stories are so satisfying
One of my school friends once had his bike stolen. Shortly after this they saw it in the window of a pawn shop, with the person who pawned it being dumb enough to leave their actual details with the store. She of course got arrested.
My dad worked for 30+ years at a Small, Family-Owned Orchard. Because he could fix tractors, do electrical work, plumbing, carpentry, pour concrete, hang drywall, patch leaky roofs, drive the forklift, demo old buildings on the property, AND all the work associated with picking, cleaning, packing and storing fruit, AND make cider in the fall, they relied on him heavily all year round and he was often one of the first guys there in the morning and one of the last to leave at the end of the day.
The employees were allowed to eat as much fresh fruit as they wanted at work. When they found something unusual, like two apples merged into one, they could take that home. When stuff was getting old enough that it had to be used right away, the bosses would let them take it home - we got loads of apples, peaches, plums, and nectarines that way and made pies, jelly, jam canned applesauce and fruit salad. At Christmas time, he'd buy each of my aunts' and uncles' families a bushel of number one apples (no bruises, defects, odd shapes or holes where the stem of one apple poked another, they were flawless, and of course, the most expensive grade, though, apples in Pennsylvania, nothing that was going to break the bank, but the point is, he paid for them).
The mother of one of Dad's coworkers had a home-based business selling pies, jams and jellies. Dude walks out with a couple of bushels of fruit (think four large paper grocery bags full and neatly rounded on top) two or three days a week when it's in season, far and away more than the freebies the bosses were giving out. My dad would even help him carry it out if they were leaving at the same time. Four or five years after the guy started there, his mom decides to donate 100 pies to a church fundraiser. Someone at the church knows someone at the local TV news station and wants to give the mom a pat on the back for her generosity, so gets the news station to do a story so she can plug her business.
Reporters interview two or three people who all say how good her pies are, how they're the only ones they buy for Thanksgiving and Christmas, how hubby never wants a cake, just a pie for his birthday, etc. Then they interview the guy's mom. Natural question, what makes your pies so good?
"Well, I get all my fruit from Small, Family-Owned Orchard."
Well, the father who started the orchard and his three kids who helped run it all watched that news station. They realized this guy had to be taking home more fruit than just the weird and old stuff they gave away, and then they realized that he had never paid any of them for any of it. There were some Awkward Conversations the next day. First they asked the girls who ran retail stand how much he was buying. None. Nobody realized he hadn't been paying anybody because everybody assumed he'd been paying somebody else. Then they asked my dad how much he'd been taking home. Dude had stolen thousands of dollars of fruit from them over the years.
He wasn't arrested. He wasn't even fired. The two families had been friends for generations. The guy's mom slapped the snot out of him (he was in his thirties) because she didn't realize he'd been stealing the fruit for her business all along and the Small, Family-Owned Orchard folks were content to shame and humilate him about it for years.
And from then on, anything my dad wanted to buy from them, he was told, "Keep your money. Take it home." He's been retired for ten years now and they still let him take whatever he wants from the farm stand when he drops by to visit.
31:45 A friend of my dad's was a crime scene analyst, and he said they busted at least 6 guys for stealing from the evidence room in his career, mostly electronics. Once, it was a $2000 Korth competition pistol... with the owner's name engraved on it. Yeah...
Cops are occasionally not the sharpest tools in the shed. Or the evidence room, apparently!
I don't have reddit, but once I went to a trip to Hawaii, and left my credit card at home since I was going with my family and my parents were going to buy everything, but anyway, so I left it at home and went on my way. This guy broke into my house, took my credit card, and bought a crap ton of stuff on eBay and Way fair. The guy forgot to change the address and all of the stuff got shipped to my house, and the dude didn't even bother to come and get it! Soo let's just say I got a crap load of stuff and the criminal dude got my de-activated credit card. 😎
• Kale • actually that isn’t stupid to have it delivered to your house usually they do that on purpose because u can just look up what address it was shipped to therefor giving themselves away also it might be a red flag for your card and get your card locked so they won’t be able to get the stuff so they ship it to your address and then just swing by your place to pick it up once it’s delivered
you should get reddit
Aarav Paul Stuff I have Reddit I just listening to these while I do hw
Did you have to hand the item back something happened to me in Australia I had to pay back the items and the criminal small claims
Stealing credit cards was the man's calling, but apparently felt that being a porch pirate was beneath him.
I grew up in a small town- 2 idiots broke in to the local liquor store... after stealing bottles and bottles of booze used a local taxi to "get away" (oh and had no cash to pay for the taxi... offered the driver booze for payment). As you can imagine they didn't get far. LOL
It's not a stupid criminal story, but it's how i caught my ex-wife cheating on me. Our son had a copy of my wife's credit card for when he was at school 200 miles away (for emergencies). I get a call one day asking about suspected fraud, and the first question they asked was about a Wal-Mart purchase for about $20 in my son's college town, which i told them was expected. Then they asked about a purchase at a Wal-Mart in our town at about the same time (within one hour)... I cancelled the card, and put in a fraud complaint. Told my (nox ex) wife, and she chewed me out! Turns out she had given her new boy a copy of her card as well.
So, on the $900 bike, where the kid got the bike from his uncle (the dirty(?) cop), I take it the cop knew it had been found but lied, then gave it to the kid? Or did the cop have the bike stolen on behalf of the kid? Either way, the cop must've known the bike wad stolen & should've faced some kind of consequences!!
The cop probably recovered it then gave it away. The police station was in on it which is why it went to court. The only reason it was dropped when the judge walked in is because the correct owner had all the evidence to corroborate their story and would have made the officer look bad
@@Ricciroc "corrobolate"?
@@Ricciroc I hope the owner of the $900 bike sued.
My friend’s dad was robbed a few years ago. They rummaged through his car and you’ll never what they took. He had golfing gear with thousands as well as a really expensive camera. Did they take it? Nope they took a signed Toby Mac c.d. and a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies that my friend was selling. Honestly what a fat mood.
I'm 65 YO man, and 3 or 4 months ago, had 3 high schooler's follow me through the grocery store for 6 or 7 minutes and followed me into the parking lot. I reached into my hip pocket and took out my business card turned and handed it to the first teen. Looking at each of them I said "I really hope your going to do something stupid." now for the funny part, I am a 2nd degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. I own my own school teaching martial arts and self defense going on 12 years mow. The leader handed the card to his friends, put his hands up and walked away. I look a bit frail I do admit. so they figured I would be an easy target. so never judge an old balding man by his appearance.
My dad once got a call saying that his DHL package was seized in Vancouver, but the scammer said it in Mandarin Chinese
Used to work at a pawn shop and the dumbest criminal award went to the guy that robbed employees cars in full view of the security cameras then came in and tried to pawn/sell the stolen stuff to the person whose car he just robbed. He also waited patiently for us to check prices until cops showed up
There is just something magical about the way this robot says "Dumbass criminal" That just makes me giggle every time lol
Some broke into my car last night, i called the cops and when they looked in my car and a small bag with the criminals driver license and release papers from prison. Not the brightest criminal
This girl at a summer camp who I was kind of friends with told me that she wanted food from the concession stand at the ice rink we were going to but didn't have any money. Her thing was to ask a person if they had any money and if they would share it with her. I told her I hadn't brought any money. She tells me she's going to steal something while the campers were getting their skates and asks if I want to join her. The rack of chip bags was right next to the skate rental booth. I said no and walked away from her to go sit in the bleachers and read because I didn't know how to ice skate and wasn't interested in learning. Walked back out maybe 5 minutes later because I needed the bathroom and see her holding bag of chips and fighting with the employee. They had seen and heard her snag the bag when the counselor and campers turned their backs. She denies it and claims that she paid for it. They say they have cameras and would call the police if she didn't return it. She did and was mad about being caught.
8:38, half expected to see a thank you to the robber stating THANKS FOR GIVING ME THE MONEY TO BUY MY HOME.
The dumbest I've seen would have had to been a dude who stole a pipe I got from reggae fest. We were smoking with my best friend and for some reason I had to leave. When I came back the pipe was missing yet no one had left. I looked every where for it but couldn't find it. I had left my friends house for the night feeling pretty bad about losing it. A week goes by and I find out from my best friend that one of the dudes they were hanging out with stole my pipe and used it to smoke with them. I was pissed since he was the first person to try and help me find it. We went over to my friends house to my friends house to get the dude to come clean. He didnt so we almost got into a fight. I didnt end up fighting him but my twin brother did. He beat his ass since my brother has 40 pounds on me at the time. A man got his ass beaten for a 40 Egyptian themed pipe. The dumb part was smoking with my best friend. He is someone I consider to be like family.
Sad
He's obviously not your friend then, sorry he had the audacity to pull that shit.
Just a few days ago there was an escapee from a correctional facility recaptured locally. He had escaped for less than 12 hours. He was going to be released in the early fall, but now he'll be spending another year or more locked up. Seems pretty stupid to me, escaping when you really don't have much left on your sentence.
Had a fellow employee at my last job who quit, gave notice and everything, and on her final day she stole about $3k in rolled coins from the safe in the back room. Questions bounced around the next day about it when I came in, and we figured out it was her pretty quick- she was scheduled for that day at that time that we all saw her leave, and the contents of the safe were accounted for down to the dime every six hours. This was somehow the least scandalous stupidity to take place at that job.
I have 2.
Worked retail, and was cleaning shelves in the toy department. Found in the back of one of the shelves the packaging from a pair of toy hand cuff that someone had ripped open and stolen the cuffs... But they left the keys behind.
Another, someone hacked my eBay account and tried to buy a $1300 laptop to somewhere in China. I had $20 in my bank account, and the different country sent up a Red Flag for eBay and Paypal, so the sale was denied.
When I was in high school (early 1990s) I was a seasonal worker at Sears. It was December, and I used my employee discount to buy a bunch of gifts for my boyfriend and family after my shift one night. Afterward, I went over to a get together at my boyfriend's friend's house. After the party, I went to go home and saw that my window had been forced down (if was an old car from the 70s and the windows were easy to force down), and someone had stolen all the gifts I'd just bought, plus the portable TV I kept in there (you could plug it into the cigarette lighter and watch TV in the car--obviously not while driving!). I was super upset! The next day I went into work and told all my coworkers and my manager what had happened and they all commiserated with me. A few hours into my shift, some guy comes in with several bags saying he wants to return a bunch of stuff. I start pulling things out of the bag and about three or four items in I realize these are the same things I'd purchased. It could be a coincidence, K think to myself, and continue pulling items out. After I'd pulled everything out it was obvious this was my stuff! There was just no way someone had bought the exact same twenty items I had! It was further confirmed when I pulled the receipt out of the bottom of the bag and saw my employee ID number on there! I told the guy I was new and would have to get a manager to help me process his return. I left him there, tracked down my manager, told him what was going on and showed him the receipt with my employee ID on it. He called security and followed me to the register. We "processed the return" slowly, buying time for security to call the cops and man the exits. The cops show up, question the guy and he insists this is his stuff. The cops ask him if he works for Sears and he says no. Then they say then why is there an employee discount on this transaction and he says his mom is an employee at a Sears in another city. The cops then inform him thay he had the misfortune of trying to return the items he'd stolen to the register of the person he'd robbed! Told him the manager had confirmed that the employee discount number listed on the receipt is registered as mine, and he's going to jail! While the merchandise had to be taken by the cops because it was evidence, the manager let me grab replacement items so that I would have gifts for my family and boyfriend (Christmas was about a week and a half away) and said they'd get the items back when the guy's court case was over. Hopefully, this guy thought twice before ever robbing someone again!
Several years ago, in a town that is 45 minutes from my home, an individual paid for a meal at a fast food place with a $200 bill and the cashier gave him change! It was all over the radio and news for a few days!
My other story wasn't so much a dumb criminal, but a funny bank teller! My boyfriend at the time took me to the bank, because I'm visually impaired and cannot see well enough to drive. I was at the front desk, filling something out, and there was a long line of people behind me.
The teller whispered, "Hee-hmm...Hee-HUMM! Psst!...Miss...MISS?!?"
I looked up and she was right in my face.
I said, "What?" She replied, "That man is standing very close behind you!"
I glanced over my shoulder, then pointed at him with my pen, and said, "Him?"
She nodded.
I said, "That's my boyfriend."
Years ago, a friend in Portland had her silverware stolen, worth about $10K at the time & was contacted by the thief by a phone call offer to sell it back. Sure, she said. She met him at a hotel with Detective Matheun right behind her.
6:18 Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that receipt underneath that garbage.
I went to college in Chicago. Intro meeting at the dorm, the RA warns us that if you have something stolen, go on down to Maxwell Street (see the Blues Brothers movie cafe site) and walk around and someone will offer to sell you your stolen item. As he was speaking, a tardy student walked in with a busted bike chain lock--from the RA's (now former) bike. I won't say it was a bad neighborhood, but it was said that if you needed a bike, you could just walk up to a kid with a nice one and yell "THAT'S MY BIKE!!!"--if the kid dropped it and ran, it WAS now your bike. Door cat-flap wallet caper: I actually investigated two unrelated rape-murder cases in which the suspect left his wallet/driver license at the scene---one was on the bloody bed, the other was between the victim's legs.
I had a shoplifter come back in twice in the space of 4 days last month, tried it on with exactly the same bags of sweets both times and I caught them both times.
Was in a shop and some kid was spotted shoplifted and he bolted. The shop clerk chose not to do anything since they had him on CCTV. I walked outside and he was right there just out of view from the shop eating the bag of sweets he'd nicked.
my step brother stole $3,000 from my step mom over the course of one summer.
he did it by sneaking inside from his room in the separated garage attic when he thought everyone was asleep, take my step mom’s card out of her bag which she kept on a chair in the living room, then he would go back out to the garage and go through garage door to leave the house being heard instead of using the front door (one of the bedrooms is right next to the front door), and then go over to the gas station across the street to withdraw cash from the ATM. my step brother would then return home and put the card back into my step mom’s purse the same way.
what he didn’t take into account was:
1) all of those transactions times show up on my step mom’s bank record
and
2) i‘m a night owl so i was wide awake when he thought everyone was asleep and i could hear him whenever he entered the house to take step mom’s card/put it back and could confirm to my parents that he had indeed been stealing money from my step mom.
ah, i love the ones where the thief ends up getting absolutely owned by the guys they attempted to steal from.
I saw someone try to steal a can of custard
A while back one of my neighbors stole my trash can. Like a big green one. It was no big deal it's just a trash can. So we didn't really care. But a couple days later we were coming back from church and they put the fricken thing outside of their house. So we ended up just taking it back.
Not mine but my Mom's.
She works as a operator for a Hospital and she frequently gets Scam Calls.
One time she had someone claiming that someone made a purchase on her Amazon and they wanted to confirm. She gave them the number to a different department then hung up. Her coworker just started and asked "Did you just give them the number for (tbh I forgot the department she said it was probably HR not too sure-)" and she replied yes.
Fast Forward like 15 minuets later she gets a call from the same person. They tell her the number didn't work and ask for it again.
She just burped and hung up.
Another time from my mom is when they called her about her Cars Extended Warranty... I kid you not she went:
"EXCUSE ME DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT? I'M BLIND THEY TOOK MY CAR AWAY FROM ME 5 YEARS AGO AND NOW YOU PEOPLE HAVE THE AUDACITY TO ASK IF I WANNA EXTEND THE WARRANTY!? WHAT'S YOUR NAME I WANNA SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER"
The person on the other end apologized and hung up
I've heard many stories:
-The guy who thought if he covered his face with lemon juice (which is used in invisible ink), know one could see his face. He tried to rob a bank. Let's just say, it didn't work out.
-The guy who thought robbing a gun store with a knife and baseball bat was a good idea
-Woman who when to the police to complain about the quality of the crack she'd just bought
-Anyone who calls a store/bank/place to warn them they are coming or to ask how much money they have
There's more, but I don't want this to turn into an a hundred page volume.
Watched a couple of idiots attempt to rob the bank at the entrance to a big box retailer. They ran into the building and turned left into the first door. One of them fired a round into the ceiling shouting "This is a robbery." The problem was that there was a police substation across the entrance from the bank and they turned left instead of right. The robbery attempt was also ill timed as when they entered the police were in their shift briefing. The 2 robbers ended up with 17 bullet holes and were promptly arrested when released from hospital.
My friend works in a convenience store. He had a guy come in to buy smokes and asked him for ID. He produced his driver's license to buy the smokes and then as my friend opened the till to make change the man pulled his gun and robbed him. The police were at his door about 3 hours later arresting him. He crapped his pants when the police informed him that my friend has a photographic memory and he was stupid enough to show his ID with his name, address, and birth date on it.
Had a teacher in 10th Grade, he told us a story that in Walmart as he was checking out his groceries a dude was shop lifting a little pack of powder donuts. Now, these donuts were dirt cheap (1 to 2$’s) and as you can imagine he was caught. The employees were very chill about it and were giving him two options. The first option was to just return the packet of donuts, leave, and no one gets hurt. The other option was he would leave with the donuts but would get caught by the police. The dude pauses, looks at the donuts, looks back at them and just runs for the exit. The employees just sigh and get back to work. When the teacher was leaving the store, the dude that stole the donuts was getting arrested.
5:41) idk why but the way the text to speech said “razor scooter man” made me laugh until I cried 🤣
That waiter is a good dude.
I like the one around 15:40 where the criminal opened up a credit card in somebody's name and made purchases but was then paying the balance on time. So really this criminal was just building this person's credit lol. I really wish somebody would do that for me!
This made the news in Saint Louis.
A drunk driver tried to buy fast food at a POLICE SUBSTATION.
After saying a dozen times "This isn't Ya Ya Burger." "This is 5th District Police."
"B.S. give my food man."
The police managed to arrest the drunk driver without incident.
And charged them with D.U.I, which they plead guilty to.
That story where the prosecutor refused to drop the charges against the kid whose bike was stolen until the judge walked in is the exact reason people are protesting in saying defund the police.
20:55 That's actually so sad. I totally sympathize with the guy.
32:32
Genome Soldier: "Whose footprints are these?"
My dad had his debit card stolen once. The dude tried to buy a bunch of expensive gaming equipment but couldn't transfer payment because there wasn't that much money in the card. He tried switching currencies. Soon after, the bank noticed the peculiar use of the card and froze it.
Reminds me of the time some people got into my Amazon account and threw $100 onto my account and left their card details on my account. Dropped their card after confirming it was not the card of any of my family members and just kept the $100 and bought gifts for my family, mostly supported by that money, that Christmas.
this 'cool' guy from my class had been stealing candy bars from a store in town close to our school for a couple weeks. never quit because it always went according to plan until one time he stole some, went back because he wanted more but grabbed a couple and stuffed them into his jacket RIGHT NEXT a store worker. he had to empty his bag and everything and there they found even more bars from the raid earlier. i remember waiting in front on the store i was interning at the time seeing him in a police car on his way to the station a couple buildings next to the store i interned at.
I know a guy who took the cops on a drunken car chase. Ran out of gas, then jumped off the side of a drainage wash to escape. He broke both of his ankles when he fell. He then tried to desperately crawl for it before he was arrested. He was out of work for months.
I don't know if anything in the video or comments said this but I saw the title and thought of my answer really quickly and it kinda gave me a quick chuckle so I thought I'd put it out here...
I once saw a video of a guy robbing a bank without a mask on... IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC
4:23 That's not a dumb crook, that's dumb luck.
I saw a video where 2 idiots were trying to break into a house by shattering the sliding glass door, they both picked up a large brick to throw at the door, the accidentally throw it at the same time, the guy in front who was closer to the window successfully hit it, but then the guy behind him hit the first guy and knocked him out cold😂 I nearly pissed myself watching it oml
Mariet Judyn Wait, even if they threw their bricks at the same time, why would that cause the guy in back to throw the brick directly at his partner’s head?
K1naku5ana3R1ka that’s what happened
I work in retail and the amount of people that don't realize we have cameras or something is just amazing. I've watched people stand directly under the cameras stuffing things in bags and down their jackets, and I just can't with these kind of people. Especially when they also buy stuff because they clearly can afford to buy it and the cost of getting busted is gonna be greater than stealing a $5 shirt or a few pieces of $4 jewelry. Some people are just a hot mess, and not the good kind.
Final story about Friendlies needs to be put in pro revenge as well. for all the managers who were dicks to their employees.
Perhaps my favorite: A guy had a custom-made ring that he always showed to everyone. One day he commented that he'd lost it. It turned up shortly thereafter--at the autopsy, behind the liver of a murdered/mutilated woman who, with her daughter, also murdered, was found in her apartment. A trail of blood led from there to his apartment, five doors down. His fingerprint was also found at the crime scene--in blood--on the wall over the little girls bed, with her in it. It took twenty years but he was executed. Hockey players: Read a news story abou a guy who, seeing a game in progress, ran in and stole the ball. He didn't notice the game was right behind the police station and the players were cops. I worked on two different cases in which a girl was raped and murdered. The guy's walet and ID were found between her naked legs in both crimes.
Working Sears there was a couple who would come in and buy around $10,000 worth of tool/lawn equipment with counterfeit $100 bills mixed in with the real ones. They got caught and tried to blame it on working a yard sale but the cops found everything in the garage.
Growing up we had the Neighborhood Thief, we’ll call Thomas. Thomas was in and out of jail mostly for breaking into people’s houses. He kept getting caught cause he didn’t actually leave the neighborhood to do it so any time someone had their house broken into and the police came to do their reports, you’d just point them over to Thomas’s place. So already not a criminal mastermind. Well one night my family got home from some school event I’d had on the weekend and our house had been broken into and some of our valuables taken. Police come and we send them to go check out Thomas. One of the things that had been stolen was my Dad’s laptop which he’d just gotten back from getting repaired. This meant it still had the sticker with my father’s full name stuck right on top. Police find it and ask him about it, but Thomas keeps insisting that it’s his even when they’re pointing at the sticker and saying that it’s clearly not. Back to jail he went!
It’s actually fairly common to steal credit cards and send purchased packages to owner’s shipping address. They later come by and take the package.
This is a very useful thread for people who don't know how to go about fixing things like these.
1992...just a few weeks after light-up shoes were introduced. Dumb criminal robs a place. Takes off through some dark woods. Obviously the cops had no problem following and arresting him.
I worked for a SO in the south. Methamphetamines were per usual out of control... Well, Sudafed was a primary ingredient in cooking it and my ex wife worked for a local pharmacy. I used to go see her on my lunch break and eat with her. I'm in the parking lot, in uniform, walking towards the door. I am met by one of our local neighborhood meth heads... Guy is wasted, no clue whether he is on Earth or Mars... He stops me and asks if I can buy him Sudafed for his I'll child (there is a system that blocked sales after so many purchases at the time before it required a script). I just look at him in awe, having locked him up the week prior. I asked him to take a second and think about what he just said... He leans closer and asks again, for me to buy him meth making ingredients while I am in uniform and being the last one to lock him up for meth... You can't fix stupid.
While in college and working at Blockbuster. My co-worker was busted for stealing. Each morning she would steal $20 or so from her till, then short-ring people during the day to replace it in the till.
She was smart enough to cover the camera on her till when she lifted the $20, but not smart enough to just cover the camera with a cloth. Instead, she opted to disconnect the cable attached to the camera's backside. The manger began to notice the camera was often askew, and so began to pay more attention to it, and suspect foul play. One morning that camera was blank, as the girl had not got the cable reattached properly. A count of the girl's till revealed the theft--Busted.
14:30 Not quite this. But a co worker from another district worked an overnight shift where we were locked into the store (for our safety as it was a bad area and myself and another co worker already had our catalytic converters taken).
Anyways, this time the thieves took the damn whole truck. It has custom flames on it and was notice blue color. Myself, the guy, and the set up supervisor went to the police station. The worry was the truck might be in a chop shop. It was around 8:30. He was going to contact the dealership at 9 because he had a gps or something that they could activate.
No joke, the truck drove right in front of the police station.
I don't know what happened, except a couple cops jumped into a car. My shift ended at 9, so the supervisor let me go.
Imagine being a dumb criminal and getting hung up on by the victim you're calling
At my school there were some kids who went around stealing phones and stuff from lockers. There were cameras, and they were caught extremely quickly
some thugs tried to rob a wedding ceremony in my country, little did they know that the in laws are some sort of special forces major, so yeah 60% of the guest are from the military. that didnt end well for them.
A guy walks into my store clad in a stereotypical brown trench coat in the middle of summer and proceeds to grab two arm fulls of those cheap discount DVD’s that you find in bulk boxes and stuffs them into the trench coat. He did all of this in front of my produce manager who was standing like 5 feet away looking right at him. As he tries to make a break for the exit our security guard and three managers tackle him to the ground and proceed to carry him to the security office with him screaming I’M NOT A CRIMINAL MAN!! While he flails around the DVD’s he tried to steal flies out of his trench coat and all along the floor proving to anyone who was doubting his guilt if there were any that yeah he was totally a criminal man!!
22:58 that doesn't sound like a "dumb criminal." That sounds like a guy going through a schizophrenic episode 😳
For anyone curious, the people who have things sent to the stolen cards owners house, that isnt always a dumb criminal (or at least a reason for them being dumb.) They want proof of adrees for a whole seperate scam. I cant remember specifics, but its also why sometimes people recieve things they didnt even order, still in their name but never paid for. Google "known scams."
The majority of teen robbers in the modern years. The record it for clout. Then they get surprise when they get caught.
Happened in Cologne, Germany, about 10 or 15 yrs ago.
I was visiting my then gf in the hospital. When she was taken downstairs to have an examination done I decided to go stretch my legs for a bit and take a walk around the block. Dude approaches me. Hunched over, looking over his shoulder. He then asks me whether if was interested in buying a computer. I politely decline. He is not having it and plonks down a large sports bag from his shoulder and opens it. „Come on man, it’s a nice computer and I give you a great price!“ At that point my BS radar starts going crazy.
In that bag I can indeed see small PC tower case and also a bunch of cordless phones, something that looked like one of these desktop label printers and other nicknacks. I again decline politely but firmly and tell him that I really need to be going because I am on my way to the hospital to see my gf (so I did not even have to lie...). He looks bummed out but shuffles on. Once I am round the corner I call the cops. I give them a description and tell them what happened. Also told them that I suspect the goods were probably stolen. I leave my details and go about my business.
Few months later I get a letter from the police dept asking me to come in for an interview. I oblige and tell them again what happened that day.
After finishing, the officer asks me whether I have any questions.
I ask them why this dude thought it would be a great idea to approach a random stranger in the street to sell a computer, of all things.
He then tells me the guy was trying to get some money to buy drugs. The computer, phones and some other items were stolen hours earlier the same day from a car dealership near the hospital that this guy had broken into.
So...Not the sharpest tool in the shed, that guy. I hope he is doing okay though.
the razor scooter one hurt man
6:15 reminds me of a story i read in a book: a clumsy poacher left an impression of his truck's licence plate in a snowbank, leading to his arrest.
8:53 reminds me: a minor celebrity was being interviewed by a bunch of reporters. a pickpocket stole wallets from several reporters, then ran for it. the celebrity was an Olympic gold medal runner, so he easily ran the crook down!
9:48 reminds me of that funny scene in "code of silence" where two crooks try to rob a bar, and EVERYONE in the bar is a cop!
14:47 reminds me of a story where two crooks stole a utility workers' truck. they couldn't figure out how to TURN OFF THE YELLOW FLASHING LIGHTS ON TOP!
29:49 reminds me of a story of a crook who tried to steal a large air conditioner from the roof of a restaurant, using only a metal knife...and cut into an electric line! ZAP! he survived, but he was still dazed when police arrived.
33:38 reminds me of a comic book where some crooks sneaked up behind an armored car whole it was parked at a bank, grabbed two large bags, and ran...only to find the bags contained nothing but EMPTY BAGS! i think it was "the beagle boys".
Watching somebody trying to escape a SCP is priceless. D bois can be pretty dumb.