More Dumb Crook Stories: The Phoner & The Sleeper
Posted May 1, 2007 12:00 pm.
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What would we do without stupid robbers to keep our Strange but True quota filled to the brim?
Here are yet two more to add to the collection of people who can’t even get crime right.
Our first stop takes us to Columbus, Ohio, where a thief confronted a driver at gunpoint, demanded his wallet and car keys, then sped off with his captive stuffed into the back of his own trunk.
But this guy forgot one key component – the victim’s cell phone, which he calmly found in the darkness of the locked interior and used to call 911. He described the car and its license plate and cops quickly found it, the thief and the owner.
One was arrested and one was freed, although we’ll leave you to figure out which was which.
That caper was a masterstroke compared to what happened in Missoula, Montana.
It started when a resident of a home there flagged down police and told them he’d found a strange man in his basement.
When cops entered the house and made their way downstairs they found what they excepted: a thief, whose black bag was loaded with all kinds of evidence – stereo equipment, a backpack and a wallet.
But they found something else they weren’t expecting: the idiot lying on the ground, snoring away. Seems the thief had a long night of taking other people’s items, so he decided to take one more thing – a nap on the victim’s cellar floor.
How dead to the world was this guy? Get this. Cops could only wake him up by threatening to use a taser on him.
To add insult to injury, he tried to tell authorities he got drunk at the homeowner’s party and was just sleeping it off.
But the resident was standing right there and told police he’d never hosted any soiree.
The guy’s been charged with felony theft and burglary and has been let out on $2,500 bond.
Next time, maybe the first thing on his burglar’s list should be the one item he didn’t steal this time – an alarm clock.
