In my perpetual quest for the dumbest gambling-related criminal (true, I have no life), poker pro Joran van der Sloot takes the title this week. Remember the guy who was arrested twice in connection with the murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005? The guy who everyone knows is guilty but can’t hold him due to lack of evidence? So what would you do if you were him? Keep out of the media, maybe? Lie low? Nah! Van der Sloot decided that he wasn’t getting enough media attention and so he carried out the same crime all over again, this time murdering a poor Peruvian girl, and leaving her body in the hotel room registered in his name. Van der Sloot then crossed the border on the run, but he was arrested in Chile yesterday while on the run. Guess who’s going to be off the poker circuit for a loooooong while!
OK, the following is a true story to highlight the fact that there are dumb criminals everywhere:
An officer in Kansas arrested a man at an airport hotel for trying to pay with counterfeit bills. On the arrest sheet, the following conversation was recorded.
Officer: What is your DOB?
Criminal: What’s a DOB, man?
Officer: When’s your birthday?
Criminal: May 5th.
Officer: What year?
Criminal: Every year, man.
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