Nominee: World's Dumbest Criminal - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

RoadRage · 09-03-2003, 04:03 AM

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<center>Man Charged With Stealing Tracking Device</center>
Tue Sep 2, 9:04 AM ET

JANESVILLE, Wis. - To track down this alleged thief, all police had to do was flick on a computer.

A 40-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing a computerized tracking device that uses a global positioning system to keep track of jail prisoners on home detention.

"He apparently didn't know what he had because he would be awfully stupid to steal a tracking device," said correctional officer Thomas Roth, who runs the home detention program at the Rock County Jail.

The $2,500 device was temporarily placed outside a home by a woman serving home detention. The device, which is a little bigger than a brick in size, has a built-in GPS satellite receiver.

Prisoners wear a transmitter about as big as a cigarette pack on the ankle, and it acts as a 100-foot tether to the portable tracking device.

By the time the prisoner called to report the theft Monday night, the device had automatically notified the jail that it had been taken outside the prisoner's home area.

Roth then tracked the device through the Internet on his home computer.

A trail of electronic dots led authorities to an apartment building, where the suspect was captured.

spectre · 09-03-2003, 04:51 AM

That's hysterical.

neddy65 · 09-03-2003, 05:16 AM

Or the guy who robbed the bank and used the back of his phone bill for the note to the teller.

Or the guy who robbed the candy store and the police followed the empty wrappers to his house.

or the kidnapper who signed the ransom note!!!!

Silvy · 09-03-2003, 05:25 AM

Very good one!

Another nominee (or for the Teller with balls):
Bank robber demands money.
Teller hands him the money.
Just as the robber starts to leave, the teller reminds him that he has to sign for the money.
And he does.

redravin40 · 09-03-2003, 06:09 AM

We had one up here where a guy robbed a porn store.
He couldn't get the cash register open and the cashier ducked out the back so he he took the cash register.
The thief didn't live too far away so he walked home with the register, not noticing that the roll of register tape had come un-spooled.
The police just followed that tape to his house.

TaLoN · 09-03-2003, 06:09 AM

ok those people deserve the death penalty

TwistedFate · 09-03-2003, 08:27 AM

The crook who robbed the bank to find his getaway car wouldn't start. So to get help he runs into the builiding next the bank, the police station.

The crook who enters the bank and wrote the hold up note on a withdrawal slip. The line in the bank was too long so he went across the street to another bank where he was informed that the withdrawal slip was invalid because it was from the wrong bank. So he went back across the street to the other bank and got in line, while the teller from the second bank called the police.

I think every city has the story of the crook running from the cops at night wearing shoes that light up when you step

MSD · 09-03-2003, 10:03 AM

How about the 15-year-old carjacker who discovered at the worst possible time that he couldn't drive stick?

krwlz · 09-03-2003, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
How about the 15-year-old carjacker who discovered at the worst possible time that he couldn't drive stick?

Gotta love that one!!!

Root_Beer_Man · 09-03-2003, 02:05 PM

HAHA Dink

dr_clocker · 09-03-2003, 02:17 PM

Oh, some peoples kids

crfpilot · 09-03-2003, 02:34 PM

That's just hilarious. Why would the guy steal something that he didn't even know what it was? Some people are just stupid.

uncle phil · 09-03-2003, 03:10 PM

they'll make "morons..."

JBX · 09-03-2003, 03:53 PM

These people either end up on the worlds dumbest criminals or the Darwin awards.

Esoteric · 09-03-2003, 04:32 PM

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The crook who robbed the bank to find his getaway car wouldn't start. So to get help he runs into the builiding next the bank, the police station.

How did the police not see that?

Mr. Spacemonkey · 09-03-2003, 04:49 PM

LMAO! That's funny as hell . . . yet so so sad.

bundy · 09-03-2003, 06:20 PM

omg. thats just tragic.
i just feel sorry for people like this.
its just so silly, its sad.

09-03-2003, 04:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	That's hysterical. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

09-03-2003, 05:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
neddy65 Loves green eggs and ham Location: I'm just sittin' here watching the world go round and round	Or the guy who robbed the bank and used the back of his phone bill for the note to the teller. Or the guy who robbed the candy store and the police followed the empty wrappers to his house. or the kidnapper who signed the ransom note!!!! __________________ If you're travelling at the speed of light, and you turn the headlights on, do they do anything? My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die! Drink Dickens' Hard Cider because nothing makes a girl smile like a Hard DIckens' Cider!

09-03-2003, 05:25 AM	#4 (permalink)
Silvy paranoid Location: The Netherlands	Very good one! Another nominee (or for the Teller with balls): Bank robber demands money. Teller hands him the money. Just as the robber starts to leave, the teller reminds him that he has to sign for the money. And he does. __________________ "Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace. " - Murphy MacManus (Boondock Saints)

09-03-2003, 08:27 AM	#7 (permalink)
TwistedFate Crazy	The crook who robbed the bank to find his getaway car wouldn't start. So to get help he runs into the builiding next the bank, the police station. The crook who enters the bank and wrote the hold up note on a withdrawal slip. The line in the bank was too long so he went across the street to another bank where he was informed that the withdrawal slip was invalid because it was from the wrong bank. So he went back across the street to the other bank and got in line, while the teller from the second bank called the police. I think every city has the story of the crook running from the cops at night wearing shoes that light up when you step __________________ If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

09-03-2003, 02:05 PM	#10 (permalink)
Root_Beer_Man Crazy	HAHA Dink __________________ >3 Cheers for boobies!!<

09-03-2003, 06:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
redravin40 Loser Location: With Jadzia	We had one up here where a guy robbed a porn store. He couldn't get the cash register open and the cashier ducked out the back so he he took the cash register. The thief didn't live too far away so he walked home with the register, not noticing that the roll of register tape had come un-spooled. The police just followed that tape to his house.

09-03-2003, 06:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
TaLoN Loser Location: MI	ok those people deserve the death penalty

09-03-2003, 10:03 AM	#8 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	How about the 15-year-old carjacker who discovered at the worst possible time that he couldn't drive stick?

09-03-2003, 02:17 PM	#11 (permalink)
dr_clocker Insane Location: ND	Oh, some peoples kids __________________ You cant help from growing old, but that doesnt mean you have to grow up.

09-03-2003, 02:34 PM	#12 (permalink)
crfpilot Punk In Drublic Location: So Cal	That's just hilarious. Why would the guy steal something that he didn't even know what it was? Some people are just stupid.

09-03-2003, 03:10 PM	#13 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	they'll make "morons..." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

09-03-2003, 03:53 PM	#14 (permalink)
JBX Unfair and Imbalanced Location: Upstate, NY	These people either end up on the worlds dumbest criminals or the Darwin awards. __________________ "Youth and Strength is no match for Age and Treachery"

09-03-2003, 04:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
Mr. Spacemonkey Wake up Location: Nowhere special	LMAO! That's funny as hell . . . yet so so sad. __________________ "I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to." -- Donnie Darko

09-03-2003, 06:20 PM	#17 (permalink)
bundy . Location: Tokyo	omg. thats just tragic. i just feel sorry for people like this. its just so silly, its sad. __________________ Ohayo!!!