Post your dumb criminal stories from your local newspaper, national news, the internet, or your own personal experiences here:

Here's one I found in Reader's Digest to get things going:

A gunman entered and Aurora, Indiana convenience store and demanded all the money from the cash register. He then tied up the cashier and fled. That's when he realized he forgot something - the money. he tried running back in, but by then, the door had automatically locked, with the bag of loot sitting tantalizingly on the safe.

SPOKANE, Wash. - A 34-year-old man was arrested Sunday after returning to a store looking for a bag of methamphetamine he dropped.

Police were called to the Ziggy's home improvement store in the 4000 block of N. Market after employees at the store reported finding drugs.

Shortly after an employee found the drugs near a checkout stand, 34-year-old C. Wilson came into the store searching for an item he lost by the same stand. Wilson did not find what he was looking for but did leave his name and phone number with employees.

Store employees were suspicious and decided to check surveillance video. Video clearly showed Wilson dropping the drugs by the counter just minutes before it was found. Employees then called the Spokane Police. An officer arrived and tested the drugs, which came back positive for methamphetamine.

Officers used the information Wilson left to track him down at his house where they informed him he was under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance.

A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.

A couple of months before the introduction of the Euro in Germany, a bank robber raided a bank in the South of the country.
He escaped with approximately 800,000 German Deutschmarks.
Two weeks after the transition, and in the last week of the permitted currency conversion, the same robber went into the SAME branch and asked the SAME bank clerk if he could exchange 800,00 Deutschmarks into Euros.
The clerk recognised the guys voice and he was arrested and recieved EIGHT years in prison.

Colorado Springs: 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.

I seen this video. and I laughed so hard at this.

A guy want to rob a store and did not know how to go about it and he decided to ask his friend on how to go about robbing a place. His friend tells him he needs to put a bag over his head so he is not recognized. So later in the day he goes to the store he wants to rob with a clear ziplock bag over his head.