Heh

 

I guess we could call it criminal karma - or no kar-ma, as the case may be.

The incident unfolded around 11 a.m. Saturday at the Hi Lo Check Cashing on Monaco Street in the Denver suburb of Commerce City.

While the masked bandits were busy looting the storefront, they ended up being on the receiving end of what the Commerce City Police Department gleefully described as an “unexpected and ironic twist.”

“A fourth criminal stole their getaway vehicle,” cops crowed in a Facebook post brimming with schadenfreude.

. . .

Two of the suspects in the armed robbery were quickly chased down and arrested by officers who raced to the scene. A third remained at large.

There's more at the link.

I'm reminded of the tale of the New York mafioso gang who carefully plotted, planned and schemed for months to steal a shipment of jewelry from a vendor in that city.  They duly carried out their heist and got clean away.  For safety, and to prevent any member of the gang selling his share of the jewelry too soon and thereby alerting the cops to his involvement, they stashed their loot in a private safe deposit box at one of the several facilities in New York City offering such services.  You can guess what happened . . . the following weekend, another mafioso gang cleaned out the safe deposit boxes after digging their way through a wall from a neighboring business into the vault.  I understand that several mafiosi met sticky ends over the following months as the first gang basically declared war on the second, and the latter retaliated.  I'm told it took high-level Mafia intervention to cool things down before matters got out of control.

Peter