Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica and Dumb Thieves
From: Roger <contaxaholic@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:48:21 -0800 (PST)

I heard of one a few years ago: Guy robs a bank and
runs out to get into his car parked out front but
can't get in because he locked his keys in the getaway
car! Cops caught him, of course.

- --- George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> At 08:28 PM 19/11/2000 -0500, Marc James Small
> wrote:
> >Folks, one of the finest of urban myths, and one
> propagated most mightily
> >by the Silver Screen and the Idiot Eye, is that of
> the "discerning thief".
> 
> There was a show on PBS yesterday that I watched. 
> It had video
> surveillance clips of some of the world's most
> stupid criminals.  Here are
> some of the ones that doubled me over laughing.
> 
> A guy wrote a ransom note on a copy of his subpoena.
> 
> Someone pointed his thumb and index finger at a
> store clerk during a robbery.
> 
> Another guy used one of his cheques to hand the
> teller a note in a robbery.
> 
> A guy covered his head with a sack to keep from
> being identified by the
> surveillance cameras.  The problem is, he forgot to
> put holes in the sack
> so he could see!  He stumbled into things and fell
> down.
> 
> One guy tried to rob a convenience store with a
> brown paper bag over his
> head.  No one in the store took him seriously.  He
> put the bag on his head
> AFTER entering the store, and by then he had already
> been videotaped on
> camera.
> 
> Most crooks are stupid.  The "Fric Fracs" are few
> and far between.
> 
> True story -- witnessed by my mother-in-law.  She
> was in a bank during a
> robbery.  Two guys walk in.  One gives the teller
> one of his cheques from
> his cheque book, and asks the teller to make it out
> for a million dollars.
> This is a true story!  Hold on - it gets better. 
> These guys were stoned
> out of their minds, and had no idea that the teller
> had pressed the silent
> alarm.   The cops were on their way.  A plainclothes
> officer came into the
> bank, and grabbed one of the robbers.  The other one
> yelled out, "Leave my
> brother alone!"  How dumb can you get!
> 
> I could go on ... but I have to go
> 
> TTFN
> 
> 
> NO ASPARAGUS
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> NO ARCHIVE


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