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Even Our Crooks Are Stupid

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While we wait to see which common, everyday noun will be next to be labeled “racist,” we reflect on the decline of our culture. Even our professional criminals behave like amateurs.

A big-time mafiosi, wanted for drug trafficking and on the lam since 2014, was recently arrested… after posting videos of himself on YouTube (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/alleged-mafia-fugitive-posted-cooking-videos-to-youtube-leading-to-arrest/). A Professor Moriarty he’s not.

Yeah, there he was, hiding out in the Dominican Republic. Maybe he was just stuck for something to do. Maybe he was a Jacques Pepin wannabe. Whatever the case, he took to making cooking videos and posting them on YouTube. He was always careful not to let the camera capture his face, which must have made for rather odd video, but the cops captured him when they recognized the tattoos on his arms. Duh.

He’s been extradited back to Italy to stand trial. Can they charge him with criminal stupidity?

‘A Brilliant Stroke of the Pen–by Accident’ (2017)

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Good can defeat evil. In the end, it does so totally, by the power of God.

But when good is in short supply, or busy somewhere else, there are times when incompetence and sheer mutton-headedness will have to do.

A Brilliant Stroke of the Pen–by Accident

Just by personal experience, we could have had a terrible problem with identity theft, had the thief not made a really stupid mistake that not only saved us, but also made his crime completely useless to him. No, I mustn’t say what that mistake was: whoever is the criminal moron out there, we want him to continue making it.

 

Unwelcome Excitement–Credit Card Theft

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We got our new Wal-Mart card in the mail today. Oops, wait a minute–we didn’t. The envelope was cut open and there was no card inside. Someone stole it.

This landed Patty with 40 minutes on the phone to get the new card canceled before the thief could use it. Why it took so long, we can’t imagine.

Thankfully for us, the thief made a stupid mistake which allowed us to remedy the situation before it really burned us. I’m not going to tell you what the error was, lest some dumb crook out there should read this and correct his error. Professor Moriarty would never have botched a crime like that. But then the jails are full of stupid criminals who didn’t think things through.

Crisis over, time to calm down.

Bonus Video: A Good Robbery Gone Bad

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From a security camera somewhere in China:

There are many ways for a crime to go wrong, but this is a new one on me–throw a brick at the store window and conk your partner in the head. Knocked him out colder than a mackerel. That put the kibosh on the caper. If these guys were working for Dr. Fu Manchu, he ain’t gonna be too pleased with them.

Just had to add this: “Why, the crime rate in this town’s so bad, you can’t throw a brick without hittin’ a robber!”