-Caveat Lector-
Dear Steve, these great anecdotes about stupid criminals are unusable in
other publications unless the source is given for where the stories
appeared, as well as some more specifics, such as Judges' names, etc. etc.
Looking forward to such documentation in the future. Jim Condit Jr.
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> (These people may have the full expression of the special "Annunaki
> genes". "Live short and be stupid". -- SW)
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>
> CRIMINAL DARWIN AWARDS
> -------------------------------------------------
> Colorado Springs:
>
> A guy walked into a little corner store with a shot gun and demanded
> all the
> cash from the cash drawer.
> After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of
> scotch
> that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to
> put it
> in the bag as well, but he refused and said "Because I don't believe
> you are
> over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it
> to
> him because he didn't believe him. At this point the robber took his
> drivers
> license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it
> over,
> and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the
> bag.
> The robber then ran from the store with his loot.
> The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of
> the
> robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours
> later.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was
> a car
> phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told
> the
> guy that answered that he had read the ad in the
> newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the
> thief was
> arrested.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> A true story out of San Francisco:
>
> A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America,
> walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny
> in
> this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the
> teller, he
> began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call
> the
> police before he reached the teller window. So he left the Bank of
> America
> and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in
> line,
> he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and,
> surmising from
> his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor,
> told
> him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on
> a
> Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a
> Wells
> Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.
>
> Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and left. The Wells Fargo
> teller
> then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he
> was
> waiting in line back at Bank of America.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that
> measured his
> speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the
> mail a
> ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
>
> Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.
> Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained
> another picture...of handcuffs. The motorist promptly sent the money
> for the
> fine.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Drug Possession Defendant Christopher Jansen, on trial in March in
> Pontiac,
> Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant. The prosecutor
> said
> the officer didn't need a warrant
> because a "bulge" in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun.
> Nonsense,
> said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that day in
> court. He handed it over so the judge could see it. The judge
> discovered a
> packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so hard he required a five
> minute
> recess to compose himself.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Oklahoma City:
>
> Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience store
> in a
> district court when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district attorney
> Larry
> Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job of
> defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was the
> robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I
> should
> of blown your (expletive) head off." The defendant paused, then quickly
> added, "if I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to
> convict Newton and recommended a 30-year sentence.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Detroit:
>
> R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing
> their
> squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When
> he
> asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification.
> Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the
> computer, and
> moments later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen
> showed
> Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed
> robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Another from Detroit:
>
> A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving
> revolvers.
> The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the
> startled
> first bandit shot him.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Cigars and Insurance
>
> A Charlotte, NC, man having purchased a case of very rare, very
> Expensive
> cigars, insured them against fire among other things. Within a month,
> having
> smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his
> first
> premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the
> insurance
> company. In his claim, the man stated the cigars were lost "in a series
> of
> small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious
> reason
> that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
>
> The man sued.... and won. In delivering the ruling the judge agreeing
> that
> the claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy
> from
> the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and
> also
> guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what it
> considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the
> claim.
> Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process the insurance
> company
> accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost
> in
> "the fires." After the man cashed the check, however, the company had
> him
> arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and
> testimony
> from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of
> intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 m
> onths in
> jail and a $24,000 fine
>
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