<p>Friend has an office in the Medical Center area of Detroit. They had a break-in a few nights ago. The thief left his car keys, including his retail “frequent customer” cards on the ring.</p>
<p>They identified him through one of the retailer ID cards and obtained his name. He has a Facebook account, including his picture.</p>
<p>All info has been provided to the police.</p>
<p>Well, you can’t cure stupid, but you can arrest it.</p>
<p>Here in Seattle, we have a Santa burglar and Winnie the Pooh burglar :)</p>
<p>[Apparent</a> burglar freed after 3 hours in chimney](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011133014_stuckinchimney20m.html]Apparent”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011133014_stuckinchimney20m.html)</p>
<p>What would be your reaction when someone calls you while you are playing golf and tells you, “There is a guy stuck in your chimney”?</p>
<p>And:</p>
<p>[Local</a> Police extract man stuck in museum window](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010478156_window11m.html]Local”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010478156_window11m.html)</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I heard that someone in Jerusalem robbed a house of jewelry and such, and also scooped up two tickets for the symphony orchestra with assigned seats for the upcoming Saturday night. Police waited and watched the audience that night. Sure enough, the burglars came to the concert, sat down and were immediately arrested. Back at their home there were still plenty of missing items. Open and shut case.</p>
<p>A bank was robbed in a small town near our home recently. The robber was quickly apprehended by police. It wasn’t too hard to run him down since his getaway vehicle was a bicycle.</p>
<p>My cousin robbed a jewelry store and was arrested later that evening after the police followed his footprints in the snow.</p>
<p>He has also been arrested for DUI on a bike.</p>
<p>And, in the truth is stranger than fiction category…I am not sure what offense he was up for, because he is a career criminal (complete with stabbing a homeless person in the back - and being acquitted of it because he looks like Kevin Bacon)…but once he played on a judges sympathy: he said he wanted to buy a chain saw, so he could do tree work.
The judge handed him the $25 he needed to complete the purchase of a used chain saw. The judge said he personally could use some tree work, and gave my cousin his address.</p>
<p>My cousin rode his bike (chain saw in tow, probably jacked up on coke or crack) and proceeded to cut down the tree…of the NEIGHBOR of the JUDGE.</p>
<p>In the Sacramento area, a homeless man broke into a closed bar and set up shop selling beers. Here’s a link to the article [Homeless</a> man breaks into abandoned bar, begins selling alcohol - CNN.com](<a href=“Homeless man breaks into abandoned bar, begins selling alcohol - CNN.com”>Homeless man breaks into abandoned bar, begins selling alcohol - CNN.com)</p>
<p>I’m actually not sure if this qualifies as stupid. He got away with it for a weekend and he was putting vacant real estate to use!</p>
<p>There was a bank heist…and the thief gave their driver’s license to the teller…How stupid was that?</p>
<p>Here’s a funny one from today’s paper. It’s not exactly that the thief was dumb, it’s that he just didn’t realize the iphone was so smart!</p>
<p>[App</a> helps Calif. police track stolen iPhone in minutes :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation](<a href=“http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2526012,app-iphone-stolen-tracked-minutes-gps-072210.article]App”>http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2526012,app-iphone-stolen-tracked-minutes-gps-072210.article)</p>
<p>What a nice dad - he was trying to support his grownup kids:</p>
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<p>I love the *Police Beat *section of our local paper. :)</p>
<p>A person who broke into our home 20 years ago was discovered in our yard the following night, trying to get back in…and wearing my father’s class ring.</p>
<p>Hanna, that’s creepy.</p>
<p>How about a nomination for dumbest victim? </p>
<p>H knows a guy whose father was in the jewelry business. After the son graduated from college, the father set him up in his own jewelry shop. One day a guy comes in, points a gun and says, “This is a robbery.” The son looks at him and says, “How do I know that’s a real gun?” So the robber shot him in the leg.</p>
<p>Of all the things I think I might ask a robber, “How do I know that’s a real gun?” isn’t one of them.</p>