The "Dumb Criminals" thread.......

[maycm]

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Police investigating a bank robbery didn't have to work hard to find their suspect: she lived at the address that was on the back of the note announcing the holdup.

"I don't think anyone realized what was on the other side," Riverhead police Detective Sgt. Joseph Loggia said Friday morning.

Charmaine Williams Stein, 30, of Riverhead, was arraigned Thursday in Suffolk County Court on one count of grand larceny, accused of holding up the Chase Bank on Main Street on June 10 and making off with $22,000.

Detectives determined that the bank teller, John Mueller, 20, was an accomplice of Stein's, Loggia said. Mueller gave her the money and didn't hit the alarm until she was out of the building, police said. Mueller, of Coram, was charged with grand larceny earlier this month.

The note demanding money was on a bulk mail advertisement that had Stein's address on the back, the detective said. Stein, who was believed to have been out of town for several weeks, was arrested at her home on Wednesday night.

She was being held on $20,000 bail.

[maycm]

A driver who moved a 40mph road sign to a 30mph zone to try to dodge a speeding ticket has been ordered to spend his weekends behind bars.

John Hopwood, 44, of Bean Leach Road in Hazel Grove, Stockport, had admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice at Manchester Crown Court.

Hopwood moved the sign 10 miles to a road in Rochdale after he was caught by a speed camera twice in two days.

He was given an intermittent custodial sentence of 56 days.

He was also told to pay ?2,763 in legal costs.

Facial mapping experts were called in to check the photo
This means he will report to a custody centre on Fridays and stay there until 1700 BST on Sundays.

On 4 April, Hopwood was caught travelling at 48mph in a 40mph zone on Princess Road, Manchester.

The next day he was caught driving at 41mph in a 30mph zone on Albert Royd Street, Rochdale.

He had moved the sign from Manchester and fixed it to a lamppost near where he was caught in Rochdale.

He had then taken a photograph of it, in an attempt to show prosecutors he was barely over the speed limit.

But he was caught out when lawyers drafted in a facial mapping expert to study marks on the signs.

Judge Anthony Ensor told him he had committed a "serious offence".

He said: "This was a stupid act bound to fail.

"You refused to accept your crime when questioned by police, even when expert evidence was put to you at two interviews."

He added: "Motorists using the road in Rochdale, which I believe has been the scene of serious accidents in the past, would have been misled into believing it was a 40mph area when, for obvious reasons of road safety, it is 30mph."

[maycm]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A pair of pot smokers picked the wrong day to use the drive-thru window at a KFC restaurant in Buffalo. Two men in their 20s pulled up to the restaurant's window and asked for the Wednesday special.

Meanwhile, a couple of narcotics detectives were inside ordering their food. That's when a cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the restaurant. The detectives then spotted the two men smoking what one of the cops called "the biggest marijuana cigar your ever saw."

The detectives went outside and arrested 23-year-old Charles Morris and 26-year-old Gregory Quick, both of Buffalo. The two men were charged with possession of marijuana and smoking it in public.

One of the cops said he got the cashier to refund the pot smokers' money for the Wednesday special.

[Skylace]

Thanks for these maycm!

[faceless]

(not the real boat)
Daft duo all at sea
Two men who stole a fishing boat to return to Dublin after missing their ferry home ended up sailing round in circles. The Irishmen, aged 19 and 20, who have no sailing experience, took the 30ft trawler, worth ?40,000 from Holyhead. They tried to sail the 67 miles home across the Irish Sea but were soon hopelessly lost and put out a Mayday call.

It prompted a rescue mission by an RAF Sea King helicopter, a lifeboat from Holyhead and a coastguard cliff-rescue team. "They thought they were speaking to coastguards in Ireland; they were very surprised when they realised they were talking to Holyhead," Ray Steadman, of the Holyhead lifeboat, said. "They had no experience of the sea whatever. They didn't even know how to switch the cabin light on."

The men were eventually located off Wylfa, in Anglesey, having sailed 12 miles in the wrong direction. They were towed into Holyhead and handed to police, who arrested the pair on suspicion of criminal damage after the owner of the boat, Paul Jones, made a complaint.

Mr Jones, 38, a fisherman, said: "I am very upset. This is my livelihood ... they revved the engine up to the maximum and left it like that. I still owe money for the boat. To me this is very serious."

Inspector Chris Jolley, of North Wales Police, said "alcohol probably had a part to play" in the incident.

----------------

haha, the daft buggers!

[faceless]

Burglar fell down chimney

A burglar was caught after he fell down a chimney while escaping over the roof of a house he had just broken into. Police in Maastricht, Holland, arrested the 33-year-old after being called out by the house owners who heard his calls for help.

The man had tried to flee out of a roof window with his booty of cash and jewellery, but tumbled in the dark and got stuck inside the chimney.

--------------

ho ho ho!

[girldorksrule]

click here