Okay, this is as stupid as it gets. No, really.

[Dragon Star]

WESTLAKE, Ohio - A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier, police said.

"The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation," police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.

Maria Bergan, 23, of Lakewood, was charged Sunday night with identity theft and receiving stolen property. She was arrested at her home in suburban Cleveland and was jailed in Westlake to await a court appearance.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14125521/

[hippietrekx]

"That's not you, really, it's me! The name is smudged a little that makes it resemble yours, and my face was turned juuuust right in the light..."

--hippie

[umop ap!sdn]

Hmm, a 23 year old steals a 22 year old's license to prove she's 21. Yup, makes sense to me.

[teri tait]

That girl is just a Darwin Award waiting to happen.

[Enzo]

I love that stuff.

The guy who holds up a bank and writes the stick up note on the back of his own deposit slip.

The guy who holds up a diner, apparantly not noticing the three cop cars parked outside and the half dozen cops inside having lunch.

Or a personal fave, the guy who demands all the money at the bank teller's window, and she tells him she isn't allowed to hand out money without checking ID, so the guy shows his ID to her.

[Lonewulf]

Or a personal fave, the guy who demands all the money at the bank teller's window, and she tells him she isn't allowed to hand out money without checking ID, so the guy shows his ID to her.

Y'know, if he had a gun, I'd have to wonder at the intelligence of either character in that little story... testing a gunman's patience can be a bad idea.

Though it's a hilarious idea when it works.

[Heid the Ba]

Yep, nothing dumber than living in a country where you can't get a drink until you're 21. :D

What ho people. Lot of names I recognise, very few arsecandles.

[Dragon Star]

Hello Heid, welcome to IRU! :D

[pmcolt]

^^^^I like the old urban legend about the guy who robs a convenience store by putting a $20-bill on the counter and asking for change. When the clerk opens the register, the guy grabs all the cash in the register and runs off with a grand total of $10.

^^Welcome!

[Lonewulf]

Yep, nothing dumber than living in a country where you can't get a drink until you're 21. :D

When they lowered the drinking age, number of accidents and deaths went up by quite a bit. I wouldn't call the drinking age law "stupid" if it's been proven to work... or been proven to need to work.

[Enzo]

I remember when they dropped the drinking age to 18, and this is a college town. Oh my God. believe me, there are few people less interesting than drunk 18 year olds. I like them fine sober, mind you.

It really didn't work very well., which is why it went back up.

[Superluminal]

Not a stupid criminal story, but funny anyway. A woman returns to her car after several hours of shopping at the mall. She finds 3 men sitting in her car, she yells at them to get out, they laugh at her. She pulls a gun, they take off running. She loads her shopping into the car, gets behind the wheel and tries to put the key in the ignition, only to discover, it ain't her car.

[Dragon Star]

Not a stupid criminal story, but funny anyway. A woman returns to her car after several hours of shopping at the mall. She finds 3 men sitting in her car, she yells at them to get out, they laugh at her. She pulls a gun, they take off running. She loads her shopping into the car, gets behind the wheel and tries to put the key in the ignition, only to discover, it ain't her car.

[St. Jimmy]

Not a stupid criminal story, but funny anyway. A woman returns to her car after several hours of shopping at the mall. She finds 3 men sitting in her car, she yells at them to get out, they laugh at her. She pulls a gun, they take off running. She loads her shopping into the car, gets behind the wheel and tries to put the key in the ignition, only to discover, it ain't her car.

I heard about that. I think it was an elderly woman who did it.

[Dragon Star]

Well if someone pointed a gun at me and said that my car is theirs, frankly I would, for the moment agree with them.

[Lonewulf]

Not a stupid criminal story, but funny anyway. A woman returns to her car after several hours of shopping at the mall. She finds 3 men sitting in her car, she yells at them to get out, they laugh at her. She pulls a gun, they take off running. She loads her shopping into the car, gets behind the wheel and tries to put the key in the ignition, only to discover, it ain't her car.

I don't think "oops" would cover it.

[umop ap!sdn]

Yeah I agree... "oh motherf***ing b*lls" might be more appropriate. And it would sound funny coming from a little old lady.

[Мастер]

Not a stupid criminal story, but funny anyway. A woman returns to her car after several hours of shopping at the mall. She finds 3 men sitting in her car, she yells at them to get out, they laugh at her. She pulls a gun, they take off running. She loads her shopping into the car, gets behind the wheel and tries to put the key in the ignition, only to discover, it ain't her car.

Well, arguably, a person who wasn't a stupid criminal at the beginning of the story, but was by the end :P