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Saturday, January 20, 2007
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Stupid meets high tech...
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I used to read a magazine columnist that always ended his columns with what he called the "Stupid criminal of the month" where he would quote some news report of some profoundly dumb crook. Like kids who break into a neighbors house steal a TV or something and leave a trail of footprints in the snow back to their own house. Or one of my favorites, 2 guys in England that went into a pub intending to rob everyone in there. One of them brandished a single shot shotgun at the crowd and told everyone to put their wallets and watches into the pillowcase held by his accomplice. To prove that they meant business, the guy with the gun fired the (only) shot into the celing of the pub. The crowd of half drunk (and now really angry) pub patrons quickly caught on to what just happened and turned on the guys. I guess the two robbers were in pretty bad shape by the time the police got there. I thought of that today when I read an account of a guy and his teenaged son in Lindenhurst, NY who have brought stupid criminal activity into the digital age. It seems that they broke into a DPW garage and stole a box of what they thought were cellphones. Unfortunately for them they wern't phones, they were GPS tracking devices that the DPW uses to track the whereabouts of their dump trucks, snowplows and such. And one of them was still turned on. So the police just had the DPW check their tracking computer, which showed the precise location of the stolen unit. When the cops got there, the guy was holding one of the units in his hand. Dumb people can be amusing sometimes. Read it here. |
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