Tag: DUMB CRIMINAL

Technology just keeps making it harder and harder for stupid criminals to make a dishonest living these days -- even if they're wearing disguises and driving fancy getaway cars. According to an AP report appearing on Cellular-News.com, Delroy George Henry, a 34-year-old Boston resident dressed in a suit and driving a BMW, acted as if he were making a withdrawal at a Boston-area bank Tuesday ...

It's that same old song and dance; cell phones just keep coming back to bite criminals in the rear end. Now, you can add a bumbling burglar in Yonkers, New York to this infamous list. Yesterday LoHud.com reported that 48-year-old Charles Perkert allegedly broke into a Chinese restaurant and left his cell phone at the scene. Cops found the phone and began scanning through its contacts list. When ...

Police tracked down a burglar in Boca Raton, Florida this week thanks to some ill advised text messaging. According to PalmBeachPost.com, police responded to reports of a break-in when witnesses said they'd watched a young man enter an apartment window and exit carrying electronic devices. Another not-so-secretive boy had been seen using a cell phone as a flashlight to illuminate the window. ...

There are plenty of ways to rob an ATM, though most require a degree in engineering or computer programming. So if you're not technologically inclined, there is only one real way to empty an ATM of its bounty: brute force. For the record, smashing, cutting, or breaking open an ATM is no easy task. No one is going to walk into a bank vestibule with an acetylene torch and walk out a couple ...

A data backup program recently helped Berkeley, California authorities solve a theft case. Soon after an unidentified Berkeley man's laptop was stolen from his car on May 5th, he took to the Web to examine his personal account on an online, data back-up program. Finding pictures the thief had taken of himself with the computer's built-in camera, the victim and police handily recovered the ...

Ugh. Seriously, people, stop looking at porn on your work computer. It's unprofessional, dangerous for the company network, and quite stupid if you value the idea of being employed. Yet, despite repeated scandals and warnings, folks just keep loading up their work PCs with Internet filth. The latest shocker comes out of Sweden, where eight employees of the national airport agency LFV lost their ...

You've heard of serial killers, but what about cereal thieves? That was the very sort of criminal recently terrorizing employees of a company called The Marketing Store in Sydney, Australia, according to the Telegraph. The company's staff would return to work in the morning to find their breakfast goodies eaten, the staff shower used, and some other signs of trespass. To catch the culprit, they ...

Most of us have embarrassingly pocket-dialed someone before, and some have even accidentally hit the emergency call button on our cell phones, but a Peoria, Arizona teenager allegedly took dialing mishaps, and stupidity, to a whole new level last week. The 16-year-old delinquent apparently broke into a car, boosted its stereo and a Cricket cell phone, and then met up with fellow rapscallions to ...