By Daniel Butler
This hysterical number of tales of exact crimes devoted by way of clumsy crooks and fumbling felons can have you giggling out loud at painfully dumb makes an attempt at crime. Illustrated.
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They said. After all, they were just out looking for a good time. Then, on a lark, they decided to pick up a friend of theirs, the crime analyst for their narcotics unit. Now Roger, the analyst, didn’t fit in with the rest of the group, who were all clad in leather jackets and sporting long hair and beards. Roger was clean-shaven, with a short, military-style haircut, and wore a tie and glasses. The passenger didn’t seem to notice. He continued his friendly banter as he gave directions. Before long the merry band of five was on its way in search of drugs, which the hitchhiker was readily able to supply.
That was one time a suspect was caught red-handed and red-faced . . just itching to give himself up! Suddenly, the fiberglass roll started shaking and moving around, and the suspect was hollering, “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! I’m coming out . . ” 13 Going out with a Bang Kerry and David weren’t very nice people. Their idea of a good time was to get drunk and drive some thirty miles outside their southwestern city and wreak havoc on whatever innocent desert creatures happened across their paths.
Scratching their heads, they headed outside into the newly fallen snow to look around. But wait! What’s this? In the yard, footprints showed on either side of a long, scraped trail leading out toward a nearby field. Either the carpet had been dragged in that direction, or a brontosaurus had just strolled by. The officers followed the trail across the yard, through the field, and into another yard, where the trail ended at a neighbor’s front door. When the police entered the small home behind a larger main house, they found not a brontosaurus, but the stolen carpet on the floor—recut and laid to fit its new home.