Sometimes, even well-planned crimes go awry. This happens due to accidental reasons or just stupidity.
In the present case, it is a question of terrible and ridiculous failures that have resulted from the sheer stupidity of those who thought to carry out a robbery.
They can be described without fear as the ten dumbest thieves that ever existed.
Wear the stolen shoes to court
Charles Taylor of Kansas was arrested after robbing a shoe store at knifepoint and stealing a pair of size 42 shoes worth $69. During the trial, three months later, Taylor put his feet arrogantly on the defense table. He was wearing exactly the stolen shoes. The judge could not believe his eyes. "I bowed down and did not take my eyes off them. "Of course no one would be stupid enough to wear the stolen shoes to his trial," he later said. But in fact, it turned out that he was really stupid.
In the wrong place, at the wrong time
On November 20, 1978, David Goodhall and two female associates broke into a home improvement store in Yorkshire to steal various items. After stuffing several pairs of curtains into a practical bag, the trio attempted to leave, each exiting through different exits. However, they were immediately spotted by store detectives. Goodhall and his companions failed to notice that in the store at that very moment a meeting of the store's detectives was taking place.
Check with name
18-year-old Charles A. Meriweather sneaked into a house in Baltimore on the night of November 23, 1978. He raped the woman who lived there and then ransacked the house. When he discovered that she only had $11 in cash, he asked her: "How do you pay the bills?". "By check", she replied. He then asked her to write him a check for $30, but then changed his mind and asked for $50. When she asked him on whose behalf he should issue the check, he told her his name. A few hours later, he was arrested.
Keep the change
In 1977, in Southampton, England, a thief had the clever idea to steal a cash register from a local supermarket. After collecting some groceries, he walked over to the till and placed a ten pound note in the bank. The shop assistant took the banknote and opened the cash register to insert the money. At this point, the thief took what was inside the safe and ran away. But this was not so successful as he had only gained 4.37 pounds losing more than he gained.
Welded robbery
On 23 August 1980, an organized gang of thieves began their safe raid on the offices of an entertainment center in Sussex, first stealing a motorboat. Using water skis to cross the river, they hauled their gear and made it to the center. However, what they thought were cutting tools were actually welding gears, and they soon sealed off the area they were in. The next morning, it took almost an hour for the office staff to open the premises again.
Who is the masked man?
Clive Bunyan went to a shop in Caiton, England and forced the shop assistant to give him 157 pounds from the cash register. He then left on a motorcycle. To hide his identity, he put his helmet over his entire face. This was a successful escape, except for one detail: he had forgotten that the helmet read "Clive Bunyan - Driver". Bunayan was arrested and made to pay for his crime by serving 200 hours in the community.
Worst lawyer ever
25-year-old Marshall George Cummings, Jr., of Oklahoma was convicted of attempted robbery in connection with a burglary at a mall on October 14, 1976. During the trial in January, Cummings decided to be the attorney. of himself. While examining the victim, Cummings asked him: "Did you get a good look at my face when I pulled your bag." Cummings later decided to entrust his defense to a public defender, but it was too late. He was sentenced to ten years in prison.
The thief who doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut
Dennis Newton was on trial in 1985 for armed robbery in Oklahoma City. Prosecutor Larry Jones asked one of the witnesses, the supervisor of the store that had been robbed, to identify the robber. When she pointed the finger at the defendant, Newton stood up and accused the witness of lying, saying, "I could have blown her brains out." After a moment of silence, he added, "if I had been the one who robbed the store." He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The wrong fence
Stephen Le and his two young accomplices tried to break into a parked truck in California on September 27, 1989. But the owner caught them trying to get into the truck, chased them, and called the police for help. Stephen Le and one of his friends jumped over a fence and ran away. But very soon it turned out that they had chosen the wrong fence, since it was the fence that surrounded the "San Quentin" prison. They were put on trial, but no longer sentenced to prison.
Hurt yourself in the leg
In February 2004, Carlos Henrique Auad from Brazil entered a bar near his home and stole a television. A few nights later, Auad tried again to enter the same bar, this time through the roof. This time he was carrying a gun and slipped and the gun went off, wounding him in the leg. He went home, but did not notice that he had left traces of blood behind. The next day, the police arrested him at his home.