News of the Weird

[Baill Inneraora]

Stupid Criminal

Police in New Britain, Conn., arrested Joel Rubin, 42, in January and charged him with using a stolen credit card, but unanswered was why Rubin also tried to use his own store discount card to get a lower price on the merchandise. It was Rubin's name on the discount card that tipped off police, and it was not immediately clear why Rubin wanted to save a few bucks off a bill that would be sent to someone else. [Hartford Courant, 1-13-09]

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

 

[maildude]

I likes the dumb criminal stories!

 

[Embryoyo]

Hahahaha! I wonder how much dumber criminals will get :thumbsup:

 

[gunslingingbird]

Another Darwin Awards nominee.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Bright Ideas
It was thought to be the backwoods version of an "urban legend," but the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reported in March its first documented case of a deer hunter's attempting to avoid detection after shooting a doe (instead of the permissible buck) by gluing antlers onto its head. Marcel Fournier, 19, used epoxy and lag bolts, said a game warden, but the finished product looked awkward because of the angle of placement and the size mismatch of the antlers. (Fournier was jailed for 10 days and fined, and had his license revoked.) [Burlington Free Press, 3-14-09]

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Least Competent Criminals

Questionable Judgments: Remo Spencer, who works at the Wal-Mart in Great Falls, Mont., was arrested in April and charged with stealing eight laptop computers and seven iPods from the store's inventory. He aroused suspicion when he offered those items for sale on Wal-Mart's employee bulletin board. [Billings Gazette, 4-21-09]

A 22-year-old man was hospitalized in Wilmington, N.C., in December after stiffing a taxicab driver. The man had bolted from the cab without paying, but the driver simply drove after the fleeing thief and rammed him. [Citizen-Times (Asheville)-AP, 12-16-08]

 

[biomech]

Man I love hearing stories like this, these people are such idiots.
The best part is them coming to the realization of why they got caught. :rofl2:

 

[Skyraider22]

Wow It was almost like I know I'm stealing but this will make me feel better about the wrong I'm doing I mean really:wtf:Let this be a lesson to all the dumb people of the world :nono::1orglaugh

 

[D-rock]

It was nice he wanted to save the people he was stealing from a couple of bucks. :1orglaugh

 

[shayd]

Another Darwin Awards nominee.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

About a year ago, I was at a fundraising event and ran into a Judge I know. We got to talking and he told me a funny ass story.

He said that just that day he was in court hearing traffic cases. Things were going kinda slow. Defendant comes before him charged with no ops. (Driving with out an operator’s license.) Things were still going slow when the defendant blurts out and asks if the judge can hold on for a few minutes, because he had to run out and put some money in the meter before it expired and he got a ticket.

Yes, he was charged with no ops a second time.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Compelling Explanations

Neal Horsley, running for governor of Georgia in the 2010 election on a platform encouraging the quaint Peach State legal theory of "nullification" (i.e., that the state can override the U.S. Constitution in certain instances), is principally known as a staunch foe of abortion who once posted a "hit list" of doctors. However, Horsley is also celebrated for a 2005 television interview with Fox News' Alan Colmes, in which Horsley described his childhood: "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule." To a skeptical Colmes, Horsley added, "(Y)ou (city) people are so far removed from
reality. ... Welcome to domestic life on the farm." [Examiner.com (Miami), 4-28-09; Creative Loafing Atlanta, 5-1-09]

Also

Environmental activists Raoul Surcouf and Richard Spink set sail from Bristol, England, in May on a 40-foot boat outfitted with solar panels and a wind turbine to attempt the first carbon-neutral crossing of Greenland's polar ice cap (a journey being monitored eagerly online in Bristol by 25,000 schoolchildren). However, 400 miles off the coast of Ireland, hurricane-force winds destroyed the boat, and the crew was lucky to be rescued by a nearby ship, which was a tanker carrying 680,000 barrels of crude oil. [The Guardian (London), 5-6-09]

 

[Baill Inneraora]

LEAD STORY

In a nondescript building next to a mosque in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, the Qadeer brothers discreetly make and market a million dollars' worth of fetish and bondage products a year for Americans and Europeans (through sales to stores and on eBay). In fact, if the radical Islamic office down the street knew about the Qadeers' work, they might be in trouble, according to an April New York Times dispatch, but fortunately, the gag balls, corsets and whips such as the "Mistress Flogger" are so odd for Pakistan that even the veiled women who sew them for the Qadeers do not understand that Americans use them for sex play. Customs officials, for example, were puzzled about how to categorize the items for tax purposes. "If our mom knew (the nature of our business)," said brother Adnan, "she would disown us." [New York Times, 4-28-09]

 

[kimb]

hhhahahaha

 

[Baill Inneraora]

I actually have met this guy a few times.

Can't Possibly Be True
When a son, angry that his father had ordered him to clean up his room, screamed at Dad and threw a plate of food across the dinner table, Dad called 911. The son is 28-year-old Andrew Mizsak, who lives rent-free with his parents in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford, Ohio, and is a member of the Bedford School Board (and whose mom is a city councilwoman). After police arrived, the habitually untidy son apologized and, according to their report, "was sent to his room to clean it. He was crying uncontrollably." Subsequently, the school board punished Andrew by removing two of his duties. [Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 5-17-09]

 

[BostonBruin]

just when u thought the world cannot get any more stupid *rofl*

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Least Competent Criminals

Jose Villarreal, charged in Georgetown, Texas, with assaulting his girlfriend, decided to take his chances at trial and rejected the prosecutor's offer of five years in prison. In May, the jury deliberated one minute before finding him guilty, and he got 16 years. [Austin American-Statesman, 5-13-09]

Chuck Dumas, 37, insisting on his innocence, was convicted of raping a young girl in 1998 and sentenced to 10-years-to-life, but began begging for a DNA test. Finally, earlier this year, prosecutors relented, and a solemn Dumas told a Columbus Dispatch reporter: "This test means my life. It's my last chance to prove to my children that I didn't do this." In May, the results came back: Guilty. [Columbus Dispatch, 5-20-09]

 

[belgianass]

awhile ago i started watching some reruns from "America's dumbest Criminals" over here ... looks like the same thing here so ... Bump ...

 

[BlueBalls]

Re: News of the Idiotic!

Least Competent Criminals

Jose Villarreal, charged in Georgetown, Texas, with assaulting his girlfriend, decided to take his chances at trial and rejected the prosecutor's offer of five years in prison. In May, the jury deliberated one minute before finding him guilty, and he got 16 years. [Austin American-Statesman, 5-13-09]

Chuck Dumas, 37, insisting on his innocence, was convicted of raping a young girl in 1998 and sentenced to 10-years-to-life, but began begging for a DNA test. Finally, earlier this year, prosecutors relented, and a solemn Dumas told a Columbus Dispatch reporter: "This test means my life. It's my last chance to prove to my children that I didn't do this." In May, the results came back: Guilty. [Columbus Dispatch, 5-20-09]

The title of this thread should be changed.

[If you look at the title of my post I have already done it for you ]

How fucking dumb can you be? The second guy especially. He's like a Jeremy Kyle guest! Did he forget? Did he think his DNA would magically change overnight? Or did he believe he could beat the test?

It isnt like a lie detector test asshole!!





He cant hear me, so I dont know why I'm shouting... :1orglaugh

 

[Baill Inneraora]

If I shout for you, he might hear me. (This happened in my town and reported in my local fish wrap)