Convict Photoshops pix of him doing charity work in hope of a lighter prison term

[thewayne]

It didn't work. The judge and prosecutors noticed that a second photo was the same photo of the guy as the first, only reversed left to right. There was printing on his shirt which was plainly reversed.

The idiot also forged letters from charities thanking him for his help and stuff.

He was convicted of multiple fraud charges and jumping bail while on parole, he's going away for 24+ years.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/good_scam_aritan_33Lve0jf6nuZYBYCuH4dPP

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/20/1532237/Criminal-Photoshops-Himself-Into-Charity-Photos-In-Bid-For-Leniency

Comments

[silveradept]

Clearly he needed better skills, all around. He'll have plenty of time to think about it, though.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, most criminals are just not that smart. Sure, they can be cunning and fool people. However, when it comes to thinking things through and planning them out....well....not so good.

Not quite Darwin Award material, but he's got the potential!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Most police success is due to the stupidity of criminals. Case in point: a detective I know, big guy, overweight. Ended up in a foot pursuit with a much younger baddie. He hit the wall, just couldn't run any further, and shouted out "If you don't stop I'll chase you to the end of the earth!"

The guy stopped. Bob walked up, cuffed him, chase over.


Though my fav foot chase is the drug dealer running through the woods at night, couldn't figure out how the cops were able to follow him so easily and catch him.

He had those lights in his tennis shoes that blink with every step.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

A similar story I heard about was a rather overweight cop chasing a teen who'd broken into a school at night. The kid took off across a field, and evidently the cop's car-cam caught the cop stopping and shaking his head, obviously aware he couldn't catch him in a dead-run. Instead, he put his hands on his hips and shouted "BANG!!" at the top of his lungs. The kid evidently threw his hands up and dropped to the ground. Shaking his head and obviously laughing to himself, the cop walked up, cuffed him, and took him in.

"Bang"? Oh, dear Lord....