Least Competent Criminals

Well, hey there! Thanks for dropping out of the cyber sky for a few minutes to catch up on the latest happenings in my blog. Today's post is on a theme I bring up every once in a while... Least Competent Criminals. But first things first... Coffee's hot and the display of virtual treats is , as always, amazing! Dig in! Now... do you remember... I ran a blog a little while ago about 'crime does pay'? Well not always...

Notwithstanding the suggestion in movies, stealing a 200-pound floor model safe is a very low-return crime, as the February arrest of three pals in Kingsport, Tennessee, illustrated. 

After struggling to load the safe into a car's trunk (accidentally shattering the back window), they drove to one's apartment, but police were called when neighbours saw the safe being dragged across a parking lot in the middle of the night. (During the trip, it fell onto one perp's foot.) Ow!

Police, following gouge marks, visited the apartment and spotted the safe, as yet unopened, in the middle of the kitchen. 

(Police: Why do you gentlemen have a safe? 
Perp: We found it in an alley.) Yeah, right!

Police opened it. It was empty. [Kingsport Times-News, 2-2-2015] Dang!

I wonder how they were planning to open it in the first place? Not sure I even want to know...

See ya, eh!

Bob