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2006-11-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Police tell bungling crook to get a new career

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 08:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 YouTube - Worst Burglar Ever- Funny

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 08:40|| 2006-11-28 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 YouTube - Stupid Criminal

Again Gary Larson had it all covered...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 08:45|| 2006-11-28 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device. When they arrived at the bank he was dangling by one leg and stuffing cash into his underpants.

The bank had a rope trap from the cartoons?

Posted by Charles 2006-11-28 08:58|| 2006-11-28 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The bank had a rope trap from the cartoons?

My guess was some kind of wire net to prevent entry through ventilation duct (???), but your idea is much more funny!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 09:01|| 2006-11-28 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Police tell bungling crook to get a new career

Try something that doesn't require skills or knowledge. Try running for the US Congress. And with an honest to goodness Irish resume, you'll probably qualify for any seat from Massachusetts.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-28 13:45|| 2006-11-28 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Try something that doesn't require skills or knowledge. Try running for the US Congress.

It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
- More Maxims of Mark (Twain), Johnson, 1927

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-28 14:04|| 2006-11-28 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 When they arrived at the bank he was dangling by one leg and stuffing cash into his underpants.

He learned bank robbery from the Sandy Burglar School?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-28 15:40|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-28 15:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Why couldn't he just stuff it in a freezer like a normal ~~Congressman~~ crook?

Posted by William Jefferson 2006-11-28 19:45|| 2006-11-28 19:45|| Front Page Top

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