Showing posts with label criminals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criminals. Show all posts

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Dumb Criminals 4

Too Dumb to Be a Thief

The police had no trouble finding this thief. When he used a stolen credit card to buy some cigars, he signed his own name on the receipt. Later he tried to buy some merchandise at a store, but the card came up as stolen. When asked for some identification, he presented his own driver's license.
He Broke Into Where???

You really have to wonder about this one. Why would a thief break into a courthouse? I guess when you're drunk; your judgment is a little off, to say the least.

This guy pried open the sliding door to the courthouse and broke into the safe in the lobby. The only problem was that it's an antique safe and there was nothing in it. It was there only for display. In fact, it wasn't locked because the lock was broken.

He was caught when he again tried to pry open to door to get out. He was back inside the same courthouse a few hours later where he was arraigned on a charge of second degree burglary.

Sleeping Beauty

A man came home to his apartment to find the bedroom and kitchen cabinets had been rummaged. He also found the burglar asleep on the living room floor. When the police came and were able to wake him, he was so drunk that he thought he was in his own apartment.

Flubbed Escape

A man in New Hampshire was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint. After handing over his driver's license and registration, he floored the gas pedal and tried to make a getaway (almost running down a police officer). The police caught up with him and found marijuana in his car. He was charged with a DUI, drug possession, disobeying a police officer and reckless driving.

Just a Little Cat Nap

Police in Arizona responded to a burglar alarm at a gun and police accessories store in Prescott. They found a man inside, fast asleep. He'd apparently entered through a window and claimed that he was driving and got sleepy. He was just looking for a place to take a nap.

He was found with a flashlight, gloves and a bag which contained expensive electronics from the store. He also smelled of alcohol.

The police had a hard time believing his story, especially since there were several warrants out on him. He was arrested.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Dumb Criminals #1

Driving Drunk

"But officer, I was just riding my lawn mower."

Well, yes, he was just driving his lawn mower. But it was 1:00 in the morning in Iowa and he was driving on the highway, all over the road, with no headlights. His blood alcohol level was .19 which is well above the limit of .08. In Iowa it is illegal to drive any kind of motorized vehicle anywhere while you are drunk.

Wasn't Thinking

The police responded to an alarm at an elementary school. They responded in time to see a suspect running through the cafeteria and out the back door. They were not able to catch him. But when he ran out, the suspect dropped his cell phone.

The police picked up the phone, searched thought the list of contacts and called one labeled "Ma."
Ma gave the police her son's name.

Just Doing Their Job

The police were just doing their job. 

When someone called 911, then hung up, the police went to that location to see if there was a problem. It turns out that it was a motel where two drug dealers were staying in different rooms. One tried to call the other one in room 119, but dialled 911 by mistake.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Who is policing the police?

We are here to serve!

Barely a day goes by or you read, hear or see of in the Media of the Police overstepping the boundaries of their mission and vision - brutality in executing their duties, rudeness against the public, neglecting their duties in protecting the arrested in police cells, raping of suspects in custody, assaulting members of the public, accepting bribes, etc. And so the list continues.

It is actually frightful. The very people we entrust to safe guard us against all evil have become the perpetrators. Who is policing the police? Who can we trust?

But it is not only the reporting in the Media that let one shivers. The daily interaction with family, friends, colleagues, and people arrested by the same Police, posts on Blogs, you name them, some stories coming forth are mind boggling.

It is no use to give incidents or discuss it. Everyone knows about it. But what needs talking about is what is the public figures, voted by us to protect us, doing about it? Are they too afraid to act against those they appointed in positions of trust? Has it become a matter of the tail wagging the dog? Or is it the master who has become afraid that the dog will attack him?

Or, is it only the first significant steps towards, or preparation for a Police State?
But can we expect anything better from those that should serve and protect when those who are supposed to manage them, police them and lead by example are sometimes the opposite?

The honest and purpose driven police officers are fighting crime from both side. The true criminals on one side and their own corrupt and criminal minded colleagues on the other side. No wonder the real criminals are having a field day. Prisons are overcrowded but even here the joke is on the law abiding citizens’ expense. They say it is not due to the fact that the criminals behind bars could not afford a decent lawyer but that they could not afford the bribe money!

It is Government’s responsibility to protect us whether they like it or not. They should realize that in framing a democratic government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Policing is an on-going experiment, namely whether policing can promote security and serve liberty as the ultimate purpose of government. Justice and peace in a society rests on restraint, by government and by the citizenry. Laws provide both a guide and a motive for such restraint for the good of everyone.

It is a general perspective of Joe and Jane Citizen that criminals feel safe and happy because they know that the police are useless. Let the real government stand up and be counted. Please say no to corrupt police forces. Let they start serving the citizens as they should.