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wannabe crooks who made police work easy
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original list of the top 10 dumbest
criminals number 10
Tony Venn breaking the law requires a
certain audacity but Tony Van a 37 year
old San Francisco hairstylist took this
to a new level when he drove a stolen
car to his own trial van was facing
charges for possessing a stolen 125
thousand dollar Porsche Carerra so maybe
he thought no one would notice when he
arrived at court in a stolen Lexus
when Yorkshire puppies he’d left inside
escaped through a window
sheriff’s deputies noticed and ran the
license plate he was charged with
possession of a stolen car and computer
as well as animal cruelty number 9
Trevor Jones ever just want to check
your Facebook one more time 34 year-old
Trevor Jones couldn’t resist when he
broke into a house in Gwinnett County
Georgia in November 2011 unfortunately
for him he used the home computer to log
in to be fair it’s no wonder he wanted
some social media downtime a woman whose
house he tried to rob earlier had seen
his car taken his keys and wallet and
called the police
Jones had to swim a pond to escape
before breaking into another nearby
house still he probably should have
logged out of Facebook before leaving
instead he gave police everything they
needed to identify him and issue arrest
warrants number 8 are seeing Caitlyn
curiosity killed the cat
and it also caught the criminal in 1988
RC Gatling came across some friendly
Detroit police officers who were showing
off their squad cars computer to a few
local kids his interest piqued Caitlyn
approached the officers and asked them
to give him a demonstration voluntarily
giving them his driver’s license so they
could run a background check the cops
complied and discovered Galen had an
outstanding arrest warrant for armed
robbery
it wasn’t outstanding for much longer
the police arrested Caitlyn on the spot
still he must have been impressed at how
well the technology worked number 7 the
living dead burglar there are times when
playing dead might be a smart idea in
the animal world
the Virginia opossum plays dead to avoid
predators and some fish feign death to
attract prey but when a 23 year old man
broke into a Spanish funeral home in
March 2008 he learned it isn’t the most
successful strategy in the human world
when police arrived to investigate the
reported break-in this man tried to fool
them by lying on a table in a glass
chamber used for wakes police were
tipped off when they noticed that for a
corpse he was awfully alive breathing
and everything number 6
Christopher Kron
it’s only polite to answer the phone it
could be someone important like the
company that monitors the alarm you just
tripped on the night of his birthday 47
year old Christopher cron broke into the
Junkanoo bar on Fort Myers Beach to
steal a bottle of Grand Marnier when the
alarm company called he not only
answered the phone but also gave his
full name because he hadn’t hidden his
face either police were able to identify
and arrest him the next day based on
video surveillance of the break-in
number 5 Shaquille McKinney when it
comes to the business world it’s good to
be proactive so an entrepreneurial 14
year old Shaquille McKinney decided to
start up his own business in Gulfport
Florida
he began cold calling people in his area
in McKinney’s defense his telemarketing
wasn’t a scam he had a real product the
problem was that the product was drugs
exactly you could pay off your mortgage
McKinney’s future marijuana Empire came
crumbling down around him after he
called police officer Matt Parks who
agreed to meet then arrested both him
and his driver 22 year-old Michael Yaba
number 4 Christopher Koch in any
criminal endeavor there’s plenty that
can go wrong but step one is actually
getting inside the building you hope to
rob 28-year old Christopher Koch should
have looked at the opening hours before
attempting to rob a citizens and
northern bank in Liberty Pennsylvania
wearing a ski mask and gloves he rushed
the door
only to find the bank had just closed to
be completely fair what kind of bank
closes at noon as cokes sheepishly
retreated employees inside wrote down
his license-plate number and he was
later arrested I don’t want you to call
the police I wanna go back to jail
please
number 3 Michael Anthony fuller if
you’re already committing a crime why
not go big in 2011 a 53 year old North
Carolina man tried to use a 1 million
dollar bill to buy a microwave a vacuum
cleaner and other merchandise at Walmart
[Music]
fortune the total price of the goods was
476 dollars so he was apparently fairly
optimistic about how much change Walmart
keeps in their registers unfortunately
the cashier didn’t have nine hundred and
ninety nine thousand five hundred and
twenty four dollars on him and knew
there’s no such thing as a 1 million
dollar bill leading to Fuller’s arrest
as it turns out sometimes when it comes
to going big or going home you should
probably just go home give it back
it would but number two uh ninh canny
resemblance a fake ID as a teenage rite
of passage but when you show a fake ID
you should make sure you’re not handing
it to the actual owner you know the one
whose face is on the ID you’re holding
in your hand that’s what happened to one
26 year old woman at Applebee’s in 2013
when she showed the waitress Breanna
pretty her own driver’s license as proof
of age it had been stolen with a bunch
of other possessions a month earlier
can’t we resolve this conflict without
anger instead of bringing her customer a
margarita
Breanna brought the cops and the thief
was caught red-handed before we unveil
our top pick here are a few dishonorable
mentions
number one McArthur wheeler when he was
arrested for robbing two banks in
Pittsburgh in 1995 McArthur wheeler was
genuinely incredulous his logic had been
impeccable lemon juice is used in
invisible ink therefore if he rubbed his
face with lemon juice no one would be
able to see his face right raaah
psychologists who studied the case named
it the dunning-kruger effect a cognitive
bias in which unskilled people are at
least able to perceive their own
incompetence and so become overconfident
in other words when people are really
dumb they can’t see how dumb they really
are do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
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welcome to watchmojo.com ten dumbest
criminals
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at even more
wannabe crooks who made police work easy
if you think we missed any numbskull
near duels be sure to check out our
original list of the top 10 dumbest
criminals number 10
Tony Venn breaking the law requires a
certain audacity but Tony Van a 37 year
old San Francisco hairstylist took this
to a new level when he drove a stolen
car to his own trial van was facing
charges for possessing a stolen 125
thousand dollar Porsche Carerra so maybe
he thought no one would notice when he
arrived at court in a stolen Lexus
when Yorkshire puppies he’d left inside
escaped through a window
sheriff’s deputies noticed and ran the
license plate he was charged with
possession of a stolen car and computer
as well as animal cruelty number 9
Trevor Jones ever just want to check
your Facebook one more time 34 year-old
Trevor Jones couldn’t resist when he
broke into a house in Gwinnett County
Georgia in November 2011 unfortunately
for him he used the home computer to log
in to be fair it’s no wonder he wanted
some social media downtime a woman whose
house he tried to rob earlier had seen
his car taken his keys and wallet and
called the police
Jones had to swim a pond to escape
before breaking into another nearby
house still he probably should have
logged out of Facebook before leaving
instead he gave police everything they
needed to identify him and issue arrest
warrants number 8 are seeing Caitlyn
curiosity killed the cat
and it also caught the criminal in 1988
RC Gatling came across some friendly
Detroit police officers who were showing
off their squad cars computer to a few
local kids his interest piqued Caitlyn
approached the officers and asked them
to give him a demonstration voluntarily
giving them his driver’s license so they
could run a background check the cops
complied and discovered Galen had an
outstanding arrest warrant for armed
robbery
it wasn’t outstanding for much longer
the police arrested Caitlyn on the spot
still he must have been impressed at how
well the technology worked number 7 the
living dead burglar there are times when
playing dead might be a smart idea in
the animal world
the Virginia opossum plays dead to avoid
predators and some fish feign death to
attract prey but when a 23 year old man
broke into a Spanish funeral home in
March 2008 he learned it isn’t the most
successful strategy in the human world
when police arrived to investigate the
reported break-in this man tried to fool
them by lying on a table in a glass
chamber used for wakes police were
tipped off when they noticed that for a
corpse he was awfully alive breathing
and everything number 6
Christopher Kron
it’s only polite to answer the phone it
could be someone important like the
company that monitors the alarm you just
tripped on the night of his birthday 47
year old Christopher cron broke into the
Junkanoo bar on Fort Myers Beach to
steal a bottle of Grand Marnier when the
alarm company called he not only
answered the phone but also gave his
full name because he hadn’t hidden his
face either police were able to identify
and arrest him the next day based on
video surveillance of the break-in
number 5 Shaquille McKinney when it
comes to the business world it’s good to
be proactive so an entrepreneurial 14
year old Shaquille McKinney decided to
start up his own business in Gulfport
Florida
he began cold calling people in his area
in McKinney’s defense his telemarketing
wasn’t a scam he had a real product the
problem was that the product was drugs
exactly you could pay off your mortgage
McKinney’s future marijuana Empire came
crumbling down around him after he
called police officer Matt Parks who
agreed to meet then arrested both him
and his driver 22 year-old Michael Yaba
number 4 Christopher Koch in any
criminal endeavor there’s plenty that
can go wrong but step one is actually
getting inside the building you hope to
rob 28-year old Christopher Koch should
have looked at the opening hours before
attempting to rob a citizens and
northern bank in Liberty Pennsylvania
wearing a ski mask and gloves he rushed
the door
only to find the bank had just closed to
be completely fair what kind of bank
closes at noon as cokes sheepishly
retreated employees inside wrote down
his license-plate number and he was
later arrested I don’t want you to call
the police I wanna go back to jail
please
number 3 Michael Anthony fuller if
you’re already committing a crime why
not go big in 2011 a 53 year old North
Carolina man tried to use a 1 million
dollar bill to buy a microwave a vacuum
cleaner and other merchandise at Walmart
[Music]
fortune the total price of the goods was
476 dollars so he was apparently fairly
optimistic about how much change Walmart
keeps in their registers unfortunately
the cashier didn’t have nine hundred and
ninety nine thousand five hundred and
twenty four dollars on him and knew
there’s no such thing as a 1 million
dollar bill leading to Fuller’s arrest
as it turns out sometimes when it comes
to going big or going home you should
probably just go home give it back
it would but number two uh ninh canny
resemblance a fake ID as a teenage rite
of passage but when you show a fake ID
you should make sure you’re not handing
it to the actual owner you know the one
whose face is on the ID you’re holding
in your hand that’s what happened to one
26 year old woman at Applebee’s in 2013
when she showed the waitress Breanna
pretty her own driver’s license as proof
of age it had been stolen with a bunch
of other possessions a month earlier
can’t we resolve this conflict without
anger instead of bringing her customer a
margarita
Breanna brought the cops and the thief
was caught red-handed before we unveil
our top pick here are a few dishonorable
mentions
number one McArthur wheeler when he was
arrested for robbing two banks in
Pittsburgh in 1995 McArthur wheeler was
genuinely incredulous his logic had been
impeccable lemon juice is used in
invisible ink therefore if he rubbed his
face with lemon juice no one would be
able to see his face right raaah
psychologists who studied the case named
it the dunning-kruger effect a cognitive
bias in which unskilled people are at
least able to perceive their own
incompetence and so become overconfident
in other words when people are really
dumb they can’t see how dumb they really
are do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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