Friday, January 8, 2010

Doofus Of The Day #307


Today's Doofus award goes to two would-be burglars in England.

Two alleged burglars were arrested after officers followed footprints from a cash machine that had been tampered with straight to the front door of a house a few streets away.

The suspected bungling burglars were caught out by the sudden snowfall as they tried to break into a cash machine at a village supermarket.

Responding to an intruder alarm, police arrived at the convenience store earlier this week to find the alarms blaring and a hole cut out of the metal shutters.

But two pairs of footprints were leading away from the shop across the blanket of snow that covered the car park.

Officers followed the trail straight to the front door of a house a few streets away, where two men were arrested.


There's more at the link.

Memo to thieves: doing a smash-and-grab in ideal tracking conditions is not conducive to the furtherance of your criminal career . . .



Peter

3 comments:

John Peddie (Toronto) said...

Clearly not woods-savvy hunters who understand that deer-tracking stuff.

Sad part is, being Britain, they'll probably get only probation and a judicial lecture...or some similar nonsense.

Anonymous said...

What, they never saw the Simpsons episode where Homer steals Ned's air conditioner, and leaves as obvious a trail?

Jim

jimbob86 said...

"Memo to thieves: doing a smash-and-grab in ideal tracking conditions is not conducive to the furtherance of your criminal career . . ."

Sure it is: Piss off the sentencing judge and he'll give them a full ride scholarship to a Criminal Trade School, room and board included!

Prison should not be a Country Club or a Tech School for miscreants: It should be someplace nobody wants to go back to, ever.