Some More Stupid Criminals

* A German "tourist", supposedly on a golf holiday, shows up at customs with his golf bag. While making idle chatter about golf, the customs official realizes that the tourist does not know what a “handicap” is. The customs official asks the tourist to demonstrate his swing, which he does–backward! A substantial amount of narcotics was found in the golf bag.

* Arizona: A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies, etc. They received a call from a 47-year-old woman, who wanted to have her husband killed. She got 4-1/2 years in jail.

* Texas: A man convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than serve a prison sentence. For payment, he provided the court a check–a *forged* check. He got 10 years.

* Indiana: A man successfully broke into a bank after hours and stole – are you ready for this? – the bank’s video camera. While it was recording. Remotely. (That is, the videotape recorder was located elsewhere in the bank, so he didn’t get the videotape of himself stealing the camera.)

* Virginia: A man successfully broke into a bank’s basement through a street-level window, cutting himself up pretty badly in the process. He then realized that:
1) he could not get to the money from where he was,
2) he could not climb back out the window through which he had entered, and
3) he was bleeding pretty badly.
So he located a phone and dialed "911" for help.

* Virginia: Two men in a pickup truck went to a new-home site to steal a refrigerator. Banging up walls, floors, etc., they snatched a refrigerator from one of the houses, and loaded it onto the pickup. The truck promptly got stuck in the mud, so these brain surgeons decided that the refrigerator was too heavy. Banging up *more* walls, floors, etc., they put the refrigerator BACK into the house, and returned to the pickup truck, only to realize that they locked the keys in the truck–so they abandoned it.