# And the "World's Dumbest Crook" Award goes to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998 "2010-03-02T15:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/1 "2010-03-02T15:59:02Z")
Cris Crego, step up and get your free complementary trip to jail! [Fugitive posts whereabouts on Facebook.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ktla-facebook-felon,0,2890549.story) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/2 "2010-03-02T16:18:45Z")
When I was training to be a bank teller, I was told of a recent robbery at a different branch. The robbers getaway car was a cab waiting outside for him. The cab driver drove him home from there. The police investigation took minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/3 "2010-03-02T16:50:53Z")
Not bad, but for me it’s a toss-up between:- The crooks who figured on holding up the bank that was opposite the local police HQ, on the cops’ pay-day, in the lunch-hour. They got about as far as calling out “This is a stick-” before they were drowned out by the chorus of safeties being taken off. :smack: The thief who tried to steal a couple hundred yards of valuable copper cable… while it was still carrying about a kilovolt. He was found, badly charred, at the foot of the utility pole. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/4 "2010-03-02T17:02:21Z")
Don’t forget the couple that took their 4 year old with them to rob a jewelry store and then left him there. The child helped the police identify them. [Linky.](http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/85934447.html) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/5 "2010-03-02T17:05:03Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The crooks who figured on holding up the bank that was opposite the local police HQ, on the cops’ pay-day, in the lunch-hour. They got about as far as calling out “This is a stick-” before they were drowned out by the chorus of safeties being taken off. :smack: Reminds me of when I was the morning bartender at a place heavily frequented by police heading home after night shift. This - life form - comes in to rob the place with a cut-down .410 shotgun. He got about half way through the word “freeze” when he saw about 40 guns pointed his direction including 2 12-bore shotguns. He dropped his piece like it had turned red hot and screamed “HELP - POLICE!!!” ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-worlds-dumbest-crook-award-goes-to/530998/6 "2010-03-02T18:28:58Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Cris Crego, step up and get your free complementary trip to jail! > > [Fugitive posts whereabouts on Facebook.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ktla-facebook-felon,0,2890549.story) Lockport police posted a thank-you note on Crego’s Facebook page saying: “It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed that now you are under arrest.” :D:D:D:D