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Wakelin while he took the car for a test drive….and that was the last she saw of him or her car. The old lady turned out not to be his granny at all, but someone from a nursing home in Bedminster whom he'd offered to take out for a drive. Brice was eventually sentenced to two years in prison in May 1995, for car theft and a number of other con tricks.

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World's Stupidest Criminals
Two drunken men struggles for two hours to steal a safe from Taylor Refrigeration in Buckley, England, in March 1994. They were so determined to take away the two-ton safe that they even left the premises to fetch a hydraulic jack. Unfortunately, someone living near the plant saw them trying to haul the safe along the sidewalk and called police, and they were caught. The safe was empty anyway. While out on bail, one of the men, Mark Douglas, was caught committing a second burglary at the plant, he was drunk that time, too.
Some thefts are more baffling than others. Burglars who got past the alarm system at the Bernhardt Art Gallery in Darlington, England, in January 1996, ignored the valuable paintings on the walls and took a bag of knitting instead.
When Patricia Wakelin of Westbury-on-Trym, England advertised her Ford Fiesta for sale, David Brice, 28, seemed like an ideal buyer. He turned up with his Granny and left the old lady with Mrs.