Safe Luxury

Favorite dumb criminal story? In the early days of ATMs a man held one up at gun point and fired two shots...?

into it. Apparently it was one with a recorded message. Two good old boys in the Midwest dragged one off with a chain hooked to the back of their pick-up, thinking no one would notice a large piece of metal creating sparks as they dragged it through town. They admitted to have had just a few beers. One guy brought home a stolen vault and opened it with a blow torch. All the money was incinerated. My favorite story is about a bank robber who cased two banks before deciding to hold up Wells Fargo. He wrote the hold-up note on the deposit slip from the other bank he had just been to. When he showed the cashier he was told that they could not accept hold-up notes written on stationery from other banks. The clerk told him to try the U.S. National Bank instead. The robber said "thanks' and was promptly picked up at the other bank after the clerk had called ahead. Darwin was right.

Public Comments

1. guy who goes into bank hands over his account book and withdrawl slip when cashier opens up the cash drawer the customer decides to make a snatch and grab leans over grabs a large amount of cash and runs off ..leaving his account book in the hands of the cashier..bank just get his home address out of the computer and call police...the police turn up at his house and there he is sitting at his table counting the money he just took..
2. i have one for me, not criminal story really. my dumb ass was in such a hurry to park my car for court in the projects and run into the courthouse, i was running late. i had stuff in my purse i had not double checked for bc i never carried that in my purse. i had just turned 21, so i had a small bottle of one or 2 shots of vodka (unopened) in my purse, weed, and parafanilia as well. i didnt get to the court room just feet in front of me, not even past searching. i was put in cell block 3! dumb right?
3. I thought I was the only one who frequented that site. (1997, Canada) A woman in Canada called the police with a complaint that she had been burnt in a drug deal. She claimed that a man had sold her a rock of crack cocaine, but when she brought it home, it "looked like baking powder." The police dispatched a narcotics agent to her house, who tested the rock and verified that, despite its appearance, it was indeed cocaine. The woman was promptly arrested for drug possession. The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) are encouraging anyone who thinks they may have been fooled into buying fake drugs to come forward.