stupid criminals

29-year-old Jamie Brown of Leeks, England stole a $335 fish tank from a pet store over the weekend then took off running. He ran through some woods nearby and needed to pee, so he stopped to handle his business.

A stupid idea gets even worse with a phone call to the State Crime Lab. You won't believe what this woman did to get rearrested.

A hold up man gets a pleasant surprise when he attempts to rob this store. Why yes, that is an armed policeman standing next to you sir.

We've seen these stories before, where judges order creative punishment to law-breakers.

Reasonable people would understand that attempting to rob a store will not turn out well when your weapon of choice is a giant leaf.

They say thieves return to the scene of the crime, but they shouldn’t do it in the middle of a news story about a rash of thefts at said scene.

A man found himself with some Whopper-sized trouble when police stopped him for drunk driving at a Burger King drive-thru.

Radio gets results! In this case it will help the police catch some bad guys and the whole community will come out a winner.

The first rule of robbery school, don't commit a crime with a cop right behind you. The second rule of robbery school,if you can't figure out rule number one get into a different line of work.

Things could not have gone any worse for this would be burglar. Murphy's Law was in full effect even before the real lawmen have the chance to show up.

If there was a video of this story, it would have 100 million views! 29-year-old Jamie Craft of Jonesboro, Arkansas was driving her 2001 Pontiac Grand Am late Sunday afternoon when she lost control and plowed into a guy's mobile home.

A man broke into a Baltimore fast-food restaurant last month and ate 16 slices of pie before falling asleep and being captured, police say. Baltimore police responded to a break-in at a Popeye's chicken restaurant on Feb. 19, whereupon they found a 62-year-old man asleep on the floor of the establishment...

Matthew Colleluori is in LC-deep trouble.

I think the greatest anti-theft device used to come standard on every car made in America. Why did the automakers quit giving us this important safeguard? The answer might shock you.

Those who can, work. Those who can't, steal. Those who steal are dumb as a box of rocks. This video proves the point.

Remember that scene (see below) in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' where Butch lays dynamite around the safe, but uses a bit too much and it blows up the entire train car and money flies around everywhere? This is like that, only in Germany and on Monday.

A bumbling Brazilian would-be robber couldn't make a clean getaway after attempting to rob a bank in the town of Parana. Oh, this is a good one ya'll.

In Lafayette we have our share of parking meters downtown but for a quarter I can usually get all of my errands taken care of with out fear of being ticketed. I don't know how much money the city takes in off of these meters but every little bit adds up.

As I have stated many times in this space I admire the men and women who protect us from ourselves in the field of law enforcement. I would imagine if you sat down with anyone who has served in law enforcement  you could get a lifetime of stories in just a few minutes. This is one of those stories where the police work was easier than expected. When the two guys who were  breaking the law captured

In this day and age of mass media, Internet connections on every street corner and 24 cable news it's hard to believe but some people still don't know they put exploding dye packs in with the money when you rob a bank. Such is the case in this video.