Stupid Criminals

Police are looking for a man in Bakersfield who was caught stealing a security camera by the very same security camera. 2012′s dumb criminals have a lot to live up to after this guy.

Ah, the holidays. The only time of the year people can dress up in a weird seasonal character outfit and appear completely sane. And yet, some do not understand this time-honored holiday tradition, and its boundaries. Maybe some people are just too jolly, happy and dumb ...

It’s always important in life to “dress the part” but what exactly does a person wear to look drunk? How about a shirt alerting everyone to that fact?

Police in Michigan pulled an elderly man over during a routine traffic stop, and when he refused a search of his pickup truck, a drug sniffing dog found almost 228 pounds of cocaine in the back. Police then arrested 87-year-old Leo Sharp for possession of the drug.

A Swiss man returning home from the Dominican Republic was busted by custom officials at the Zurich airport with a whopping 261 endangered Mexican tarantulas, which he had packed into individual plastic bags and stuffed in his luggage.

During their first date at a Vero Beach, FL, T.G.I Fridays, 18-year old Devin Norling and 19-year-old Sydney Sanders discovered  that they had something in common: Neither wanted to pay for their meal. So the new couple pulled the old “dine and ditch” move and got busted. That’s gonna be one awkward second date.

When 39-year-old Shawn Weimer of Michigan decided he was too drunk to drive, he was just being a responsible adult. But when he appointed his nine-year-old daughter as his designated driver, not so much.

Well, this is humiliating. Thieves using bolt cutters were able to force their way into a supposedly secure building earlier Thursday morning and steal 21 MP-5 submachine guns and 12 large caliber handgun from the Los Angeles police department’s prestigious SWAT unit.

Aspiring criminals listen up: If you’re planning on robbing a bank, it pays to make sure the teller can read your threatening note.

An Iowa woman was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend after he refused to have sex with her. The Press Citizen explains that Melissa Barbara Minarsich, 28, just needed a little sweet loving and wanted to make that incredibly clear to her boyfriend.

Estevan Tapia was leading police on a 10-mile car chase when he was overcome with the urge to relieve himself. So the Albuquerque, NM., man pulled over and indulged himself on the pavement — all the while with a beer bottle in hand.

People deal with death in their own way: some hold a vigil, others set up a charity and some friends take the dead body around town while getting drunk on his stolen ATM card.