From literal food fights to taking egg rolls as bribes, here are 13 of the dumbest ways
people got arrested.
13.
Tickets to Heaven?
One couple managed to convince multiple people that they could literally buy their way into
heaven by selling fake “golden tickets.”
Yes, they turned into the Willy Wonkas of the great beyond, selling their heavenly tickets
for one hundred bucks a piece!
Their names were Tito and Amanda Watts, and you can probably guess just by looking at
their mug shots, that they definitely weren’t qualified to do such a thing and were straight
up lying to customers through their teeth.
While being arrested Tito kept swearing the tickets were 100% real, claiming that Jesus
gave them to him behind a KFC, so he could get money for outer space.
Somehow, considering what they were trying to sell, the location and reason for the tickets
makes complete sense, right?
His wife confirmed that they wanted to go to space in order to smoke cocaine.
The police confiscated multiple crack pipes, thousands of dollars in cash, as well as,
for some reason, a baby alligator.
Why did they have that baby alligator?
We want to know just as bad as you.
Truly a charming couple though.
12.
Cheating Wife Close your eyes and picture yourself in this
situation.
You’ve been with your wife for years and start to grow suspicious that she's been seeing
someone else on the side.
To put your mind at ease, you log onto her computer and begin reading through her emails.
A jerk move?
Yes, it definitely is, but it doesn’t justify an arrest.
Unfortunately, Leon Walker was arrested for hacking his wife's email.
He’s looking at a hard time for the offense too.
Up to five years to be exact for violating a computer misuse law that’s supposedly
in place for protecting secrets.
Leon just wanted to know if his wife was up to no good!
But Walker claims his wife had told him the password to the account years before.
Whatever the truth is, we don’t think a jail sentence is necessary, marital counseling
on the other hand could probably do them a lot of good.
And, just in case you were curious, there was in fact another man in the picture.
11.
“I’m With Stupid”
You know those t-shirts that couples wear saying things like “she’s mine” or those
other ones that say “I’m with stupid”?
Well, one man was arrested for wearing one of these shirts.
In Queensland, Australia, the man was wearing the signature “I’m With Stupid” shirt
while standing next to some people from the Liberal National Party campaign.
It just so happened that the man arrested, Iain Fogerty, runs a fairly popular parody
twitter account for the Queensland Premier.
The shirt was apparently a public nuisance, which is what Fogerty was charged with.
After the arrest pictures circulated on Twitter, the site’s users had a blast making light
of the ridiculous offense.
The cops taking him into custody were extremely careful which side they stood on while taking
him to the cop car.
But honestly, the arrest itself was stupid.
Who knew you could be charged with wearing a tacky t-shirt?
10.
Earthquakes After an earthquake in 2009 left 29 people
dead, Italian citizens in the town of L’Aquila, wanted answers, and someone to blame.
Six geologists in the town were arrested on charges of manslaughter for failing to predict
the quake.
The geologists had previously told the citizens before the natural disaster took place not
to worry, but mother nature can be unpredictable, even the smartest scientist in the field wouldn’t
have been able to predict the quake.
Which is what the judge determined too.
After thirteen long months, the geologists were set free, leaving the courthouse to a
crowd of angry citizens outside shouting, “For shame!” as they left.
What’s scary about this case is that scientists may be hesitant to share findings with the
public from now on in fear of being wrong or worse, convicted of a crime!
Researchers around the world rallied in support of the geologists, even sending letters to
Italian president.
The CEO for the American Association for the Advancement of Science said, “There is no
accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction,” which proves the Italian’s
innocence.
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9.
Taco Bell Fight Taco Bell is great.
You can eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
And if you choose so, you can even use it as a weapon!
Although that last one is really not advised.
51 year old Suzanne Hurlvert didn’t mind though as she was arrested for hurling a Taco
Bell Burrito Supreme straight into the back of her husband Carl’s head.
The couple was fighting over Carl’s habit of going to the bar every night and drinking
to his heart’s content.
The argument eventually escalated to the point that Carl took the fork from his Taco Bell
pizza and stabbed his wife with it!
When police came to arrest Suzanne, they noted how calm she was with a fork covered in pizza
remnants sticking out of her hand.
The police also felt the need to mention how there were burrito pieces all over the room.
In the search for Carl, authorities found him at, you guessed it, you bar.
He probably didn’t even stop to clean the beef out of his hair.
He was arrested on the food fight charges just like his wife.
A match made in heaven, wouldn’t you agree?
8.
Freddy Got Fingered Remember Blockbuster?
That rent-a-video store that had a bunch of movies and games to choose from?
If you said no, then you and James Meyers would get along really well.
The Concord man was arrested for not returning a VHS movie from 2002.
To give you a bit of perspective, the arrest took place in 2016, 14 years after the original
rental!
Can you guess what movie it was?
The 2001 Tom Green comedy, “Freddy Got Fingered.”
While driving his daughter to school one morning, an officer pulled Meyers over because one
of his back tail lights was out.
After a good 25 minute running his license, the cop came back and asked him to step out
of the vehicle.
It seemed even the police were confused by this situation.
Once he was told the reason behind his arrest, Meyers thought they were joking.
There had been a warrant out on him since 2002, when he failed to return the film.
Luckily officials thought it was just as bogus as Meyers did and his charges were eventually
dropped.
7.
Late Fees This next entry is similar to Meyer’s story,
just with a different form of media.
Jory Enck was arrested after not returning a book to his local library for over three
years!
He had checked out a GED study guide and didn’t respond to any of the letters or calls from
the library saying they wanted it back!
Usually library members are given 90 days to return a book, and Enck was well past his
due date.
It’s been a city policy for years that if a person refuses to pay their overdue fees
and is stopped by police, then they’ll be placed under arrest.
The library in Copperas Cove, Texas, where the “crime” was committed, says they will
try to solve the situation in a civil manner, without police involvement.
But if, for some reason, Enck still refuses to comply with library policies, then they’ll
take legal action.
When reporters reach out to question him, Enck refuses to respond.
Maybe he was still too busy studying?
6.
Spaghetti Mistakes SpaghettiOs are a childhood favorite for many
Americans, with their delicious tomato sauce and signature circular noodles, it’s almost
a crime not to like them!
But Ashley Gabrielle Huff from Georgia was arrested for liking them a little too much.
On July 2, 2014, police pulled the 24 year old woman over for what was supposed to just
be a routine traffic stop.
But it turned into way more when an officer noticed a spoon with a mysterious material
baked on it inside Ashley’s vehicle.
Upon seeing this mysterious spoon, the cop was convinced it was meth.
Despite Ashley’s efforts to convince the officer that it was just sauce residue from
spaghettiOs that she liked to regularly eat in her car, they weren’t convinced.
With zero previous criminal records, Ashley was placed under arrest for the suspicious
spoon.
It was sent to the crime lab, while she was sent to jail to wait for the results.
And, just as you would suspect, the cop was wrong, the spoon did in fact have spaghettiO
sauce on it.
What an imPASTAble mistake.
5.
Facebook Likes You’d think after committing a crime and
not getting caught right away, people would be smart about how they conduct themselves.
But no, you can’t expect much from a criminal after all.
Levi Charles Reardon from Great Falls, Montana was involved in a felony forgery case.
Somehow with all twelve of his brain cells, Levi managed to evade capture.
Police were dumbfounded on where he could be.
The department posted a mugshot of Levi from a previous offense on the Great Falls/Cascade
County Crime Stoppers Facebook page to enlist the help of locals.
But the Einstein that Levi is, he decided to like the post, probably thinking he looked
nice in the photo.
Three weeks after the initial post, the cops had him in their custody.
We wonder if Levi is going to “like” the way his jail cell looks.
4.
Bank Robbers After that last story, it’s easy to wonder
if anyone in the world has common sense any more, and honestly, probably not.
A bank in Fairfield, Connecticut was shocked to receive a call one day from a man named
Albert Bailey.
Albert described how he and a partner were coming to rob the bank and that they should
be ready.
If bank employees didn’t comply, they would be met with what Albert described as a “blood
bath.”
Just stop and think about that for a second, they called to warn the bank that they were
coming… yeah stupid doesn’t even begin to describe these guys.
Bank employees were told to get $100,000 ready before they got there, but instead of that,
they used the time to call the police!
When Albert finally did show up, he slipped the bank teller a note telling them to give
him the money.
And they did.
He got nine hundred bucks out the door when authorities greeted him with handcuffs.
They successfully made the list for dumbest ways to get arrested that’s for sure!
3.
Egg Rolls Becoming a citizen of the US is a lengthy
process that can sometimes take years to complete through legit channels.
But one immigration officer named Mai Nhu Nguyen thought she could bypass some steps
for people, if they met her price.
What was the price you ask?
It could be anything from favors to money, and in this case, it just so happened to be
egg rolls.
After working for the department for over 8 years, Nguyen had taken many different bribes
from Vietnamese immigrants working on their citizenships.
She had taken thousands of dollars from these people during her career, and, the day she
was finally arrested for it, she was caught red handed, with 200 egg rolls.
The FBI caught her in the act after one of her victims told investigators how Nguyen
demanded money in order to approve their application status.
The feds gave the informant money and wired them up, sending them to the office of Nguyen
where she was indicted.
We don’t think Nguyen is going to enjoy many egg rolls from prison.
2.
Spooky Ghost Some people enjoy Halloween a little too much,
and Anthony Stallard must not have gotten the memo that the spooky holiday had ended,
months ago.
He and some of his friends had been drinking the night before and had decided to go to
the nearby Kingston cemetery to play some football (Soccer, for the Americans watching).
Witnesses to this event claim that Anthony was being overly rowdy while pretending to
be a ghost amongst the graves.
He reportedly was throwing his arms in the air and saying ‘woooooo’ as your stereotypical
ghost usually does.
Well that’s obviously way too out of hand, we’re joking of course, but Anthony was
arrested for ‘behavior likely to cause distress.’
It was probably too much for the real ghosts in the cemetery to handle.
Though he didn’t serve jail time, he was fined a total of 75 pounds($104.044) in reparation
costs.
He was just too spooky to handle.
I’m sure the money he had to pay really brought down his ‘spirits’...
1.
Gators at Wendy’s There’s been a lot of people from Florida
on this list.
Coincidence?
We think not.
Some workers at a West Palm Beach Wendy’s location got much more than they bargained
for after clocking on for their shift.
A man, Joshua James, had driven through the drive thru and thrown a 3.5 foot (1 m) alligator
through the window.
Where do we begin with this…
Where did he get the gator?
Why throw it through a window?
And most importantly, why Wendy’s?
Joshua’s mother, Linda, told news outlets that it was just a “stupid prank” one
of many her son often pulls.
Even if it was just a prank, the law doesn’t take these kinds of actions lightly.
He was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, yes an alligator falls under
this category in case you didn’t know, along with assault, they got him for illegally possessing
an alligator paired with petty theft.
Poor alligator and poor Wendy’s employees, they really did not deserve to be on the receiving
end of this alleged “prank”.
That’s all folks!
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