1.  A burglar named Bob broke into a suburban house through the sliding door on the patio.  Dressed in black, like he’d seen on TV, Bob didn’t waste time.  He went right for the valuables in the bedroom.  He scored big and felt successful.  On his way out to the patio he saw a laptop computer pen on the kitchen table.  Bob stopped, keyed in his Facebook page, and announced what he was doing.  Then he ran out the door—forgetting to log out of Facebook.  When the police got there, they found Bob’s open Facebook page—and they found him!

2.  Another mistake made by criminals included Sergei.  He and his wife were having big problems.  In fact, he wanted to kill her—which he did.  He faced the problem all murderers have: how do you get rid of a dead body?

Sergei had a brilliant idea.  He dragged his wife into the bathtub and sawed her up into dozens of pieces.  Then he took the pieces to the kitchen where he stuffed them one by one down the garbage disposal.  It was working great until the disposal became clogged and stopped working.  After that, it was easy for the police to find the remaining evidence.

3.  Here’s a really stupid mistake made by criminals.  Arvid wanted to rob a store at the Mall of America.  Without wearing a disguise, he entered the mall.  Arvid carried a large plastic garbage bag and filled it with stolen jewelry from a store.  Somehow, he managed to get out of the mall past security.  When the police arrived they found Aarvid with the garbage bag.  He was standing outside waiting for his get-away vehicle—the city bus.

4.  Joe was drunk at a local restaurant.  The bouncer told him to leave.  Joe did, but he carried a concealed handgun.  He pulled it out and shot the bouncer.  Four shots killed the father of four children.  Joe panicked and decided to jump into the Mississippi River to escape.  While in the water, he dropped the gun to hide the evidence.  Unfortunately, Joe couldn’t swim.  He had to be rescued and was arrested.  What happened to the gun?  The next day, the city lowered the river in order to dredge a channel.  Which exposed the gun with Joe’s fingerprints all over it.  This stupid mistake made by a criminal was used to convict Joe easily.

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1.  Jody sat before the judge during his trial.  Jody had actually argued with her in open court.  Not a good idea and Jody finally realized his mistake.  Since the judge was about to decide his fate.  To patch up things, Jody brought some gifts for the judge the next day.

He brought a plastic Santa Clause riding on a plastic motorcycle, two audio cassettes from the 70’s, a jack-in-the-box, and three glossy photos of Jody from his recent campaign for the school board.

Without cracking a smile, the judge announced that she was unable to accept any gifts from defendants and gave them all back to Jody.

2.  Another stupid mistake made by a small time criminal.  Leon loved “car jacking.”  When he spied a 2014 Mercedes, he was excited.  It was the most expensive and fancy car he’d ever jacked.  Using a big gun, he forced the people out of the car.  Leon got in and took off in a squeal of tires.

The victims called the police who said they’d be at the scene as soon as possible.  Meanwhile, Leon realized the car and its technology were more complicated than he’d expected.  Minutes after stealing the car, he turned around to come back.  He found the victims still standing in the street.

“Hey, man,” Leon called out the window.  “Come here and show me how to run the sound system!”

Before the victims could respond, the police arrived and arrested Leon on the spot.

3.  Deontres also tried to steal a car.  Before he could figure out how to start it, the police got there and tried to arrest him.  Deontres bailed from the car and ran across the street.  He tried to escape into a deep snow bank.  The cops chased him over the snow.  As Deontres got to the biggest snowbank. his basketball shoes were so large that they both fell off.  Determined to still get away, Deontres kept running.  But his pants were so low, they fell down around his knees.  He jerked to a stop and did a face plant into the snow.

The police easily scooped Deontres up and arrested him—the result of the dumb mistakes made by Deontres.

Do you have any stories of stupid mistakes made by criminals that you’d share?

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