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World's Stupidest Criminals
Children's specialist Dr. Robert McCormick of Phoenix, Arizona, rammed a rod into his head to fake a gunshot wound, hammered the end of the rod into his stomach, bruised and battered his body, the shot a .32-caliber bullet into a piece of meat and pushed the spent bullet into his stomach wound. Then he trussed himself up with rope and black plastic sheeting and waited for a passerby to find him. The faked abduction, which took place in December 1988, was intended to cash in on insurance payments. Police spent $24,000 on the hunt for his nonexistent attackers before the the scam was uncovered, and unsurprisingly, the doctor ended up seeing a psychiatrist.
In February 1995, police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were left shaking their heads after they picked up two teenage boys in a stolen car. Mere minutes earlier, the same lads had appeared in court accused of 25 vehicle thefts. When arrested for the 26th, they said they didn't have the bus fare to get home from court.
In September 1991, Joyce Lebrom fainted at a supermarket checkout in Berne, Switzerland. Staff thought she'd suffered from a heart attack, but when paramedics arrived, they found a stolen chicken stuffed down her bra. The cold had caused her to pass out, and after recovering in the hospital, she was charged with theft.
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