Stupid Criminal of the Week
by TChris
A cashier at a German grocery store thought she had devised a brilliant plan. She stashed the day's proceeds in her shoes, hit herself over the head, and told the police that she'd been robbed by a masked man who knocked her unconscious. Like most criminal schemes that require self-inflicted injury, this one didn't work. Doctors noticed that her head wounds didn't match her story, and the woman confessed when police confronted her with the discrepancy.
Close contender: the Florida man who allegedly hit his girlfriend with an alligator during a domestic dispute.
Update: Another contender: The man who forgot 88 bags of heroin, and his wallet, when he returned his rental car. (Thanks to Felix Deutsch for passing this along.)
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