they say crime doesn't pay but that statement seems to be only true for those who get caught
fortunately for the justice system there are a lot of criminals out there making it
far too easy to round them up through some of the most ridiculous mistakes imaginable
10. the door pusher who among us hasn't had the embarrassing experience of walking up
to the entrance of a building and pushing the door open only to discover it's a pool you take
a moment to look around and see if anyone noticed your foible then you pull the door
open and leave that's how things worked out for james allen allen was attempting to rob
a store when a series of almost bafflingly stupid decisions and accidents ensured his prompt to rest
alan who already tried to rob the same store a week and a half earlier ended up tripping over
a display of drinks accidentally pulling off his disguise and then getting stuck behind the door
he tried to kick his way out and fell over a customer one of his victims actually opened
the door for him just so he could leave presumably they just wanted the embarrassment to stop allen
ended up being convicted of both the first and second robberies as well as using a firearm
even though it was a fake had he not pulled his own disguise off in an effort to get out of his
own stupid clumsiness he may have gotten away with it but given his inability to even open doors well
maybe not 9. the worst courier in australia if you're a drug dealer there are certain
things that you need to do to maintain your criminal secrecy chief among those is avoiding
the police at all costs and if you're driving a van loaded with 500 pounds of crystal meth
you should do your best not to crash into a police car simon too somehow managed to
plow into two parked police cars back in 2019 with a load of meth on board his vehicle in a panic he
drove away and in a surprise to absolutely no one the police later tracked him down
the criminal had no explanation for how he got the drugs and his lawyer argued that he was basically
an idiot tasked with driving a vehicle and he was just too dumb to even do that properly the word
shambolic was officially used in court according to the official report two had been driving past
the police station when he fell asleep at the wheel he crashed into two separate parked police
cruisers and then continued on his way the most ridiculous part of his entire circus of poor
decisions was that it took the police an hour to find him that means one of two things happened
he either kept 500 pounds of meth in his car for an hour after hitting two cops
or he went and picked up the meth after hitting two cops either way he had an hour in which to
not have the car full of meth and he didn't take advantage of that fact number eight the cameraman
few things are creepier than discovering a hidden camera where one has no business being and of all
the places to hide on a public restroom is just off-putting in the extreme so when a passenger on
united airlines went to the washroom on a flight she was likely very concerned when she noticed a
blue flashing light the lie was located around the cabinet in the washroom when the passenger looked
more closely she saw it was a camera using a paper towel she pulled it out and gave it to the flight
group the flight crew gave it to airport security when they landed now theoretically this should be
the end of the story the camera was confiscated and some bathroom perv was denied his invasive
trophy but the story didn't end there as part of their due diligence security watched the footage
on the camera it showed the man who hid the camera actually installing it and recording
himself in the process they even found partially deleted footage on the camera indicating that he
had done the same on different flights in the past he ended up being charged with video voyeurism 7.
the facebook plotter back in 2015 andrew hannon's got in his mind to rob a local tesco supermarket
in norfolk robbing a supermarket may not be all that uncommon but going on facebook before you
rob it and saying you plan to do it complete with a selfie of you and your robbery weapon
is hennell's posted doing tesco over and included a photo of himself with a knife 50 minutes later
police picked up the man with the same knife and a few hundred pounds stolen from the store
the crime was called in by a witness who'd seen him in the act and the facebook post pretty much
clinched his guilt with his own words working against him he pled guilty to the crime and ended
up with four years in prison 6. the businessman depending on the crime you're committing there are
arguably dozens of ways that you could go about keeping your identity hidden from law enforcement
steps can be taken to keep your nefarious deeds on the down low and to ensure you face no justice
but no matter what the crime a good rule of thumb is that you're going to get caught if
you leave your business card behind when you're done matthew crowder robbed a consignment store
in albuquerque new mexico and who knows maybe he would have gotten away from scot-free the problem
was the man had earlier given the clerk at the story's business card after trying to pick her up
to go on a date crowder went on to engage in the downfall of too many other criminals by boasting
about what had stolen on facebook sealing the deal that yes he was the guy who did it and he had no
reasonable defense he was already on the hook for similar crimes at three other locations as well
and had warrants outstanding thanks to him leaving his card behind cops were able to pick him up on
all four warrants 5. the confident man by now it's clear that too many criminals are willing to
sound off on facebook and get themselves caught as a result but anthony leskovic took things to
another level of stupid when he got too confident with his online presence loskalovic was wanted by
police in freeland pennsylvania for aggravated assault and other charges the local police
posted on their own facebook page that they were looking for him anthony went ahead and shared his
status on his very own facebook page and a bit of smug foolishness since the cops are able to see
who's sharing their status they saw that lezkovich himself had shared it moments later leskovich got
a message from an attractive stranger on facebook asking if he'd like to meet for a drink he turned
the mystery woman down but only for a drink he then agreed to hook up with her to share a
cigarette obviously there was no mystery lady and lezkovich was immediately arrested when he showed
up to meet the strange woman to add insult to injury the police made fun of him on facebook for
getting himself arrested in 45 minutes 4. the clothed man molten j hodges claimed that he was
at the lowe's in kissimmee florida to shop for mango and banana trees in fact he was there to
commit armed robbery when hodges fled the scene he went for the nearest place that he thought would
offer him some cover when he popped a nearby wall he found himself in the cypress cove nudist resort
still hoping to flee police hodges pulled a knife on some of the nudists and stole a golf
cart to get away maybe his plan would have worked if not for one small but significant mistake that
he made in his getaway attempt when cops showed up hodges was remarkably easy to spot because he was
wearing clothes and the rest of the people at the resort were not number three the helpful friend
committing a crime in front of the police always seems like a bad idea kevin duck's crime was
definitely of the unexpected sort and qualifies as one of the dumbest mistakes any criminal may
have ever committed doke hadn't actually committed any crime to put him in contact with the police
in fact he was at the police station to bail out a friend who was there stemming from charges related
to a car crash so so far so good when dirk reached into his pocket to pull out the bail money he
also dropped the meth that he was carrying on the counter where everyone could see it dyke tried to
pull a faster on the cops and insisted it was just a bag of salt that he was carrying around cops
weren't buying it and derek ended up in prison alongside his friend number 2 the illegal driver
jake kevin watts already had a criminal history when he completely dropped the ball and made
everything 10 times worse for himself he had to report to the local police station as a condition
of his bail for a past crime so he drove to the station to meet those conditions the problem is
that watts had already lost his driver's license and wasn't allowed to be behind the wheel of a car
right away it sounds like watts made a dumb mistake but it gets so much worse at some point
after arriving he must have realized he'd screwed up so before entering the police station he threw
his car keys into a bush arguably he could say that he didn't drive there if he had no keys on
him except a passerby saw him drop the keys and pick them up and then followed him to the police
station to give them back and that's not the worst part after police got wind that he had been
driving with no license they went to check the car for baffling reasons watts had shown up in a car
weighed down with drugs and weapons there were seven pairs of brass knuckles meth steroids a gun
and even estrogen for some reason number one the window tosser many of us have seen a film in which
the police engage in a high-speed car chase with a criminal it's pretty much a cliche at this point
but what's a criminal to do in that situation when they know they're caught and have a massive
quantity of cocaine on board cops from devon and cornwall were pursuing a suspect who had a
whopping thirty thousand dollars worth of cocaine in the van that he was driving his quick thinking
plan to save himself from drug charges was to toss the drugs out of the window of the moving vehicle
the one mistake that this particular criminal made was not actually opening the window before
tossing out the sacks of drugs the result of that was the bag of cocaine busting open
on the window and falling into the back of the vehicle when police finally did pull him over
there was a fine dusting of cocaine in the inside of the van so i really hope
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