Dumb Criminals

Thanks to security cameras and good ol’ fashioned stupidity, a pair of not-so-nice neighbors could be facing charges for allegedly stealing some decorations out of a Florida resident’s front yard and using them for a holiday display of their own.

Theresa Lynn Warner, 40, her 39-year-old fiancé, Christopher Damaio and Warner’s 17-year-old son were busted this week just outside Pittsburgh with a van full of shoplifted toys they planned to sell on eBay or elsewhere — $35,000 worth of loot in all. Ho-Ho-Holy holiday shopping list, that’s a lot of stolen merchandise!

A San Diego man who held up a convenience store dressed in a Gumby costume and his non-costumed accomplice pleaded guilty to their crimes. No, they weren’t guilty of being adorable.

Are you kidding me.  I had no idea there was such a thing.  This story was already blogged about before here on KIXS.com but I thought I would share again.  I am confused by the charge this kid has.

Looks like we have a brand new candidate for dumbest criminal ever. Patrick Johnson robbed two banks in the Ocala, FL area in one day. The thief had the presence of mind to change his wardrobe  between his crimes, but his method of sticking up the banks — a note stating he had a gun — was the same both times.

Here’s a little pro tip for those of you planning on holding up a convenience store: make sure a cop isn’t standing right behind you. Otherwise you’ll look like an idiot like the criminal in this video.

An armed robber was caught on tape holding up a clerk in a jewelry store in Istanbul, Turkey. But he didn’t count on the clerk’s 12-year-old son, who makes a thrilling rescue in this intense video.

Josephine Smith wasn’t kidding when she approached 69-year-old Milton Ellis Wednesday night in the parking lot of a shuttered St. Petersburg, Florida Hooters and declared “I’m a vampire, I am going to eat you.”

A man dressed as Gumby made such a horrible attempt at robbing a 7-11 store that the clerk thought it was all a joke. The assailant told the clerk he was being robbed then fumbled inside his costume as if he was going to pull out a gun. He ended up dropping 27 cents on the floor and being told by the man behind the counter “not to waste his time.”

The man who broke into Celine Dion’s home in the Montreal suburbs earlier this week seemed to have little interest in the pop star, but his heart did go on for her stocked fridge and warm bathtub. Neither Dion or her husband Rene Angelil, who live most of the year in Florida, were home when the 36-year-old man let himself in by using a garage door opener he found in an unlocked car on the property

Leah Gibbs was so impressed with Adam Minton’s Facebook profile that she agreed to go on a date with the man she knew just through the social networking site. The 23-year-old Australian woman probably realized this wasn’t going to be a traditional date when Minton kicked it off by asking her to drive him to a betting parlor and then wait in the car while he presumably made a wager.

Yup, those really were snakes in Eric Fiegel’s pocket. Security cameras at Mesa, Arizona’s Predators Reptile Center caught the 22-year-old stuffing five $800 baby sharp albino boa constrictors into his shorts, and then leaving the premises.