« France to beat Google at the search game. No, really. Stop laughing. | Main | When advertising companies fail to think. »
May 02, 2006
Stupid criminals are the ones who get caught.
Really stupid ones have their humiliating tales exposed in the international news.
Take this week's masked, armed bank robber, for instance. He used the car his girlfriend lent him as the getaway vechicle (after switching the licence plates). Then he abandoned it.
I imagine it would not be hard to track the owner down with anything from the VIN number or (just as likely) stuff in the glovebox.
The girlfriend, in addition to presumably being quite unhappy, told police who she loaned the car out to. Spokesman for the state prosecutors in Trier mentioned that by using his girlfriend's car, he "might as well have left his business card. It was really stupid."
Several police officers also had no trouble identifying the masked man from the surveillance video. It was their Police Commissioner.
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at May 2, 2006 12:18 PM
Comments