Pennsylvania Man Wins Darwin Award for "Dumbest Criminal

[rootX]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7969934.stm

A man in the US state of Pennsylvania accused of a robbery at a narcotics police convention has been described as probably the state's dumbest criminal.

 

[russ_watters]

I thought this was going to be about those drowned football players...

 

[rootX]

I thought this was going to be about those drowned football players...

Didn't see that one and neither could find it through google.

 

[russ_watters]

An agency investigating a deadly boating accident involving two NFL players and their friends in the Gulf of Mexico has concluded it was caused when the vessel was improperly anchored and the boat capsized after one of them tried to throttle forward to pry loose the anchor.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2009-03-27-missing-boaters-report_N.htm

 

[GeorginaS]

An agency investigating a deadly boating accident involving two NFL players and their friends in the Gulf of Mexico has concluded it was caused when the vessel was improperly anchored and the boat capsized after one of them tried to throttle forward to pry loose the anchor.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2009-03-27-missing-boaters-report_N.htm

Oh. My. Heavens.

 

[OAQfirst]

I don't get this. rootX, you even responded to a thread here, with the same link: The dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania... https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=303289 by jtbell.

Hmm. I see jtbell's post came after yours? *confused*

 

[rootX]

I don't get this. rootX, you even responded to a thread here, with the same link: The dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania... https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=303289 by jtbell.

Hmm. I see jtbell's post came after yours? *confused*

It had 5 posts when I saw it and this had only one reply then..
(but yes, jtbell's thread came few minutes after me)

 

[BobG]

You have to remove yourself from the gene pool to be a Darwin Award winner. The thief at the police convention is 19 and will get out prison after a few years. Being "smooth", it's entirely probable he'll mate and reproduce, passing his intelligence on to another generation. There's many females that would consider a male with enough audacity to commit armed robbery at a police convention as attractive.

 

[BobG]

Another Darwin wannabe: Diver shoots himself in the head with a harpoon.

Okay, maybe that was more unlucky than stupid. Personally, I think he just made up the story about the harpoon ricocheting off a rock because he was too embarrassed to admit how it really happened.

On the other hand, he was incredibly lucky. The harpoon didn't hit any of the sections of the brain that he actually used. Sometimes, not using much of your brain is its own reward.