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Meatless Monday; Dumb Criminals Do Dumb Things!

Hollywood has made some heist movies with tales of smart criminals hatching clever schemes to get rich fast. I have a feeling none of these stories will ever reach the silver screen!

Recently my husband and I went to the movies and we saw Identity Thief. It gave us a few chuckles and made for an enjoyable evening out. Getting your identity stolen is no laughing matter though, I had my debit card cloned a couple of years ago and the thief ran amok; $900 at Home Depot and $450 at Rite Aid. How do you spend $450 at Rite Aid?! Boy they were really living it up until the bank froze my card!

A Colorado waitress Brianna Priddy recently had her wallet stolen on a night out. The thief ran up bad checks all over town and Priddy figured she would never see the culprit come to justice. Imagine her surprise when she carded some customers at work and was handed her missing driver’s license. She calmly handed the ID back and when she went to get the drinks called the police who apprehended the crook as she sipped her margarita. I wonder if she was wearing her beer goggles when she arrived at the restaurant, maybe that would explain how she didn’t notice the waitress was a dead ringer for the girl on the ID she was using? Incidentally, the crook was 26 years old and could have used her own ID to buy alcohol….

A guy in New York figured the easiest way to get cash was to hold up a bank. He was not prepared for the feisty teller behind the counter. When he passed her a note saying he had a bomb, she told him she didn’t read notes he would have to fill out a withdrawal slip. He obliged and handed her a slip with the same message, she then asked him to swipe his bank card and once again he obliged but by now he was fed up waiting so he grabbed a handful of lollipops off the counter and told her he “didn’t have time for this” and left! I hope the lollipops have a good street value so his heist was not a total loss.

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A Wisconsin guy takes the prize for Dumbest Criminal of the Week. Needing cash but not wanting to rob a bank, he decided to print his own. His scheme ground to a halt when his printer jammed so he took it back to Wal Mart for a refund. Customer service would not give him a refund as the paper tray and installation CD were missing and upon further inspection staff found the paper jammed inside had two $100 bills printed on it. He asked staff to toss the paper out and continued to argue with staff and demand a refund. He was still yelling about it when police arrived. He could have just bought a new printer with one of the other fake $100 bills they found in his pockets after he was arrested. Police also found out that he had two outstanding warrants for armed robbery. I’m guessing where he is going he won’t need money or a printer for a while.

 

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