Over in Salt Lake
City a pair of enterprising thieves took a car wash to the cleaners literally. They
used a powerful vacuum cleaner to suck quarters out of a coin operated machine.
The duo drew the suspicion of a passing police officer and failed to make a
clean getaway. 'They had a good plan. They were enterprising. If they were
successful they could have returned night after night,' said Sgt. Gary Young. 'More
often thieves just use a crowbar. They get an A for effort but an F for
execution.'
What gave the
men away was a crude attempt at altering their vehicles' license plates. They
used a piece of black electrical tape to change a D to a B, Young said. That
will be D for Dumb to B for Burglar then. The bandits were at work for about 12
minutes, sucking coins out of the coin dispensary and used their own shop
vacuum to do the work, he said. It was powered by an inverter rigged inside
their Jeep SUV to produce household current. Police haven't counted their stash
of quarters yet. Young said the coin-operated machine probably held no more
than $30. Epic fail then on super stupid Saturday.
We got this lovely award from Us On Cloud9 and we say a big thank you and we will pop it on our awards page with pride.
Definitely an epic fail!! DUMB indeed!! Happy Saturday to you Molly!! xo Chloe and LadyBug
ReplyDeleteOh my people are so often not at all clever
ReplyDeleteurban hounds
That's another one of those stupid human tricks Molly!
ReplyDeleteBrains strike again, just proves that there is more dumb peeps then animals!
ReplyDeleteThe Mad Scots
Wow - a crowbar might have been smarter, cheaper, and quieter!
ReplyDeleteSome thieves are plain stupid and can't even carry out their plan properly! This happened to a wet-behind-the-ears 14 year old that stole my credit card and bought porn movies using his mailing address. TA DAH! Caught on the spot.
ReplyDeleteOH MIZ MOLLY, we love ya!
they were probably using the quarters to keep the vacuum going :)
ReplyDeleteOMD~, silly humans!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!
Momo & Pinot
Congrats on the award Mol!
ReplyDeleteWally & Sammy
How interesting! We live right by SLC and did not know about this BOL!
ReplyDeleteYour Pals,
Murphy and Stanley
thanks for the laughs...
ReplyDeleteLaughing at Cowspotdog comment . Have a great weekend Molly xx0xx
ReplyDeleteMollie and Alfie
omg, what a cutie pie!
ReplyDeletelove molly the wally! what a FANTASTIC idea for a blog!
super awesome.
happy weekend~
and thanks for the laughs!:))
ReplyDeletehahaha, but the idea sounds not bad...ok, for the first moment. Have a wonderful saturday!
ReplyDeleteHa, yep we had a local pet store that was broken into recently. The burglar alarm went off and instead of hopping it sharpish, they decided to take flight in the air cooling system and then got stuck...talk about bird brain. No animals in the store were hurt by the way, only the two legged dimwits.
ReplyDeleteLovely award Molly. :-) xxx
Haha lol! Jail time for some quarters doesn't sound smart at all! :D
ReplyDeleteNow that's an idea, BOL
ReplyDeleteBenny & Lily
Crime just doesn't pay - unless you are a banker of course, BOL.
ReplyDeleteDip Bridge and Elliot x
I agree with you!
ReplyDeletelove
tweedles
OMDs Molly surely those stupid thieves could find something better to do with their time... Your picture is so pretty
ReplyDeleteHugs madi your bfff
Hahaha! All that for $30! Now, that D for DUMB!
ReplyDeleteBack to the drawing board...bwahaahaa!
ReplyDeleteXXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy
Most criminals do get tripped up on something totally dumb!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're not having a stupid Saturday! Have a great rest of the weekend. )
ReplyDeleteYep happened just up the road from us. Stupid is everywhere.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Goose
Those dumbos wouldn't last in my hood. BTW, did you read about the poop pill they invented in Canada. It's for real.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Humans can be very stupid sometimes.
ReplyDeleteOh wow... that's an interesting idea... I'd say "clever" but it's not really lol.
ReplyDeletethe scary thing it if the stupid criminals actually had "brains" they would be dangerous,xx Rachel
ReplyDeleteWell, that's certainly not something I would have thought of! But then I'd never think to try and rob a car wash either, bol!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your lovely award.
They get points for creativity! Lee and Phod
ReplyDeleteLOL they could have been engineers. Congratulations on your award!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great story!
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