More Stupid Criminals
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Investigating a purse snatching, Brunswick, Georgia, detectives picked up a
man who fit the thief's description and drove him back to the scene. He was
told to exit the car and face the victim for an I.D. The suspect dutifully
eyed the victim, and blurted, "Yeah, that's the woman I robbed."

In Nashville, they tell of Fred "Junior" Williams, the burglar who fell
asleep on the sofa of the home he was robbing, only to be awakened by police.

In Thibodaux, Louisiana, a robber with a thick Cajun accent couldn't get
restaurant patrons to understand his demand for money. Frustrated,he
whipped out his gun, but it wouldn't fire. Grabbing the cash register, he
ran -- but got only three feet before falling down. The register was still
plugged into the wall. Unplugging it, he tried again, but a diner decked
him and called police.

In Rhode Island, cops were sure they had the right guy when the suspect in
a string of coin-machine thefts paid his $400 bail entirely in quarters.

Texas authorities, responding to a store robbery, seized a man who was
fleeing naked. He said he'd stripped after the job because he figured his
clothes would make him identifiable.

In Lawrence, Kansas, officers tracked a midnight thief who prided himself
on his running speed by following the red lights on his high-tech tennis
shoes.

In Virginia, a janitor went to great lengths to avoid I.D. in a 7-Eleven
robbery, using a ski mask and rental car for the occasion. But he also wore
his work uniform, which said "Cedar Woods Apartments" and had his name,
Dwayne, stitched across the front.