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Stupid criminalsTraffic stop kills pot smuggling run
Police in Mesquite, Texas, stopped a van being driven by William Dale Crock of Arkansas and found 100 pounds of marijuana in a casket in the back of the van. Under normal circumstances, hiding 100 pounds of marijuana in a casket would seem pretty clever. Because the cops did not necessarily stop the van thinking there was a casket full of pot in the back. They stopped him because they noticed he was not wearing a seat belt. And they say he ran a red light. And they say he made an illegal lane change. So those things got him stopped. Otherwise, he might have made off with the stash.
Thief calls cab, but they send the cops
Jake Ormerod, 18, robbed a house in Torquay, England. He has pleaded guilty and is likely to spend 18 months in jail. He might not be, though, if he hadn't stolen a cell phone from the house. Seems the house he robbed belonged to a cab driver, Don Smith. Ormerod used the phone to call a cab. He called the victim's company. He got a dispatcher that recognized the number of the incoming call and knew Smith had been robbed. So the dispatcher calmly told the man a car would be sent to pick him up. But they sent a police car, so it was a clever little play on words. "He must be the unluckiest burglar in the world," Smith told the Sun.
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