:: Master Criminals ::
If there was an award from world's dumbest criminal, I think there a few guys here in northern Alberta who would qualify. Over the weekend, in the town of Grimshaw, about 20 minutes from here, the RCMP arrested two people for possession of drugs and firearms. Nothing really groundbreaking, not compared to B.C grow-ops and drug busts, anyway. But the funny part is how they got caught.
Some farmer out in Grimshaw called the cops because his snowmobile got stolen. So the cops came, and saw that, yes, there was no snowmobile where there used to be one before. Now, most people who would steal a snowmobile would, I assume, just get a truck, load the snowmobile into it, and drive away. Case closed. As long as you don't accidently drop your business card in the driveway as you leave then you're home free. Congratulations, you just got yourself a new snowmobile.
But not these geniuses. Either not in possession of a truck, or brain cells, (or both) they decided that they would just drive the snowmobile away. So what did the cops do? Well they followed the tracks in the snow of course - right to a shed across town somewhere. Driving the snowmobile was mistake #1. Mistake #2 for these guys came when, in a moment of pure genius, they thought "Hey, lets' hide the snowmobile in the same place we store all the drugs and unregistered handguns." So guess what else the cops found?
Yup, real smart crooks. It didn't exactly take the guys from Law & Order to figure this one out.
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