I read something in this morning’s local paper (yes, I DO still read newspapers) that convinced me that “stupid crooks” should be a bona fide classification under the law.
Three women, showing signs of being seriously drunk throughout the incident, ran up a $39 tab at a local Waffle House restaurant (if you don’t have a Waffle House where you live, you can still figure out from the name what sort of restaurant it is, right?). When it came time to pay, they simply fled the restaurant, jumped in a car and took off.
They left their three purses behind.
Funny, right? It gets better.
The restaurant owner quickly locked the purses in his office and called the police.
Before the police got their — two of the women CAME BACK TO THE RESTAURANT TO GET THE PURSES!!
See? I told you it got better.
The restaurant owner refused to give up the purses, saying the women needed to stay there to answer to the police. The two women, not being quite that drunk or that stupid, fled again at the mention of “police.”
As of press time, the police were using the ID in the purses (which included, among other things, a check stub for a meal at a Waffle House in a nearby state) to track down the women.
Catching crooks like these doesn’t require any fancy electronics, or surveillance cameras, monitors, or anything else. They practically catch themselves, don’t they??