Dumb Criminals

While grocery shopping last Thursday, Pennsylvania resident Brian McDaniel decided he wanted to chow down on some shrimp. Instead of paying for them like your typical consumer, he allegedly shoved the bag down his pants and tried to saunter out of the store.

Thieves in Yorkville, Illinois have made off with a cache of 2,500 rubber duckies, which they stole from a police academy building of all places. The Yorkville Citizen's Police Academy sells the rubber duckies for a few dollars each during an annual sale, with the proceeds going to buy equipment for the Yorkville Police Department.

This past week, a California mom was caught on video encouraging her son to body slam and beat down his opponent in a front-yard brawl. The video was posted to YouTube and features 33-year-old mother Jennifer Zuniga standing along the sideline coaching her child as two boys take swings at each other.

A twenty-something computer thief learned a valuable lesson after the owner of the stolen laptop accessed the hard drive via remote. That lesson? Never record yourself dancing awkwardly to hip hop music on a looted laptop before going through the basic steps of wiping it out. Especially if the owner of said laptop is a computer guru with access to the hard drive from an external location. Read Mor

Keith Gruber of Swan Lake, NY, was an hour and a half late for his 10:30 AM pretrial felony DWI hearing in Sullivan County Court. It would have probably been best if the 49-year-old didn't show up at all.

Recently, we've featured stories about a few criminal "masterminds"... like the gentleman who broke into a home and when he heard the owner return before he could make his exit, called the police himself. Then there was the fellow who called 911 to ask questions about his marijuana plant and any legal troubles that might come from it. This story, however, might win this gentleman the &qu