21 year old Justin Grant decided that he didn’t quite like the food in prison where he was serving time in Australia. So the guy decided to casually split when he was being transferred to a hospital for a hand injury. I don’t know how he wasn’t noticed within the first minute of his escape, wearing a shirt emblazoned with ‘correctional services’ and being handcuffed (duh) but that’s not our story. Apparently, Grant went underground where he continued to taunt the police with Facebook status updates. At one time, he even decided to invite friends to a poker game using the social networking group! But it seems that Grant missed being behind bars, because he eventually became careless and was arrested in the parking lot when he went to buy fish and chips. Guess he’ll be having lots of time on his hands to play poker these days….
In the spirit of dumb crooks, here’s a true story all the way from Colorado:
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shot gun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but he refused and said “Because I don’t believe you are over 21.” The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn’t believe him. At this point the robber took his driver’s license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.