Some folks just are not cut out for a life of crime or when they get caught they simply can’t handle the punishment and whine and snivel as a result. Here are but a few examples.

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In Chicago an 18-year-old would-be armed robber entered a muffler shop and declared a robbery. He allegedly waved a gun around and demanded money. Told that the manager was the only person that could open the safe and that he wasn’t there yet the would-be robber left his cell phone number telling shop employees to call him when the manager arrived. They did call, only it was the cops. Cops arrive, call the idiot robber’s cell phone, he arrives, waives a gun around and gets shot in the leg and busted for his trouble. Read it at Chicago’s Dumbest Thief and understand that this idiot is not cut out for a life of crime.

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Seventy-two year old LeRoy Schad, a convicted child molester living in Hudson, Kansas, population 150, is unhappy with the terms of house arrest and probation imposed upon him by District Judge Ron Svaty. Schad was required to post signs with letters 4 inches high around his house indicating that a sex offender resides there. Additionally Schad was required to attach two magnetic decals to his Ford Escort when he drives to counseling sessions or to see his probation officer. The signs say “Sex offender in this car.” Schad says the judge took it too far and Schad fears his life could be in danger. Schad’s lawyer is appealing the sentence. Read it at Sex offender says having to post signs put him in danger and figure Schad would be in a lot more danger were he in prison where he belongs…

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Marco DaCosta, a parolee in South Florida is also living under the restrictions placed on sex offenders. The problem is, he is not a registered sex offender. When DaCosta was released from prison, he was initially ordered by state corrections department to live under the Oakland Park Bridge. There he had no bed, no restroom and not even a chair or bench to sit on. After the cops evicted him from the bridge he was ordered to live in a tent near the Everglades with two other former inmates and countless gators nearby. DaCosta who was convicted of burglary, aggravated assault and threatening to kill his ex-wife was also arrested on charges of sexual battery on two girls and aggravated assault involving fondling a woman, but those charges were dropped. Since DaCosta is on parole for the other crimes the state says it can impose any restrictions upon DaCosta it sees fit and he is being required to live under sex offender restrictions. DaCosta’s attorney is appealing. Read it at S. Fla. Parolee Says State Made Him Live Under Bridge and be thankful you don’t live under a bridge or with the gators…

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In Missouri, authorities are trying to decide what to do with Ronald Long who while attempting to install a a satellite TV system in the home he shared with wife Patsy Long managed to shoot and kill her. After trying unsuccessfully to punch a hole through the wall of the home by other means, Long used a .22 caliber pistol to shoot a hole in the wall. The second shot struck his wife in the chest, killing her. Read it at Man shoots wife while installing satellite TV system and wonder if it wouldn’t be better to get an ex-wife to help with installing the satellite dish…

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The FBI in Seattle has begun analysis of a long-buried parachute of the same type used by skyjacker D.B. Cooper when he jumped from an Northwest Orient Airlines 727 with a 25 pound money bag containing $200,000 dollars ransom on Thanksgiving eve 1971. The children of a Clark County contractor found the parachute buried in a field that their father has recently plowed for a road. Read it at Feds check parachute for D.B. Cooper link and if you are less than 40-years-old ask “Who’s D.B. Cooper?”…