# What's the dumbest crime you ever witnessed or were a victim of?

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**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-crime-you-ever-witnessed-or-were-a-victim-of/776715 "2017-01-09T13:56:27Z")\
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By “dumbest crime”, do you mean dumbest perpetrator of a crime, or dumbest example of something that legislators in their infinite wisdom have criminalized?

I was in a buffet once that had a sign saying “state law requires diners to take a clean plate each trip to the buffet”. I saw a guy refill his dirty plate, and I called the TIPS hotline to report it, but the police did not seem interested. I suspect that in actual fac,t he state law only requires the restaurant to post tht sign.

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