Reader's Digest

78 | July• 2018

WORLD’S DUMBEST CRIMINALS

And the Dumbest

Exc u ses...

THE ISSUE:

Over 40000 cases of confiscated

winewereillegallyconsumedin

police stations in the Indian state

of Bihar.

THE EXCUSE:

Police insisted that rats had bitten

through the tops of confiscated

wine bottles and had drunk the

booty. Source: rt.com

THE ISSUE:

Amanwaspulledoverfordriving

16 kilometres per hour over the

speed limit in Australia.

THE EXCUSE:

“The wind was pushing me.”

Source: metro.co.uk

THE ISSUE:

A Canadian woman was pulled

over for driving nearly double the

speed limit.

THE EXCUSE:

She told the ocer she was

speedinginordertomakeitto

hernearbycottageintimefor

sunset. It was 8.20 in the morning.

Source: CTV News

THE ISSUE:

Auniversitystudentwasarrested

onchargesofshoplifting.

THE EXCUSE:

Itwasahomeworkassignment–

shewasresearchingatermpaper

on kleptomania.

Source: Associated Press

supermarket in Giessenburg Hol-

land. Heading straight for the cashier’s

counter one of the men jumped over

it to steal cigarettes from the shelves

behind. Unfortunately for them they

had tripped the store’s security sys-

tem and they got more “smoke” than

they had bargained on: the store’s se-

curity smoke machine had been acti-

vated. Knowing that police had been

alerted they led empty-handed.

Clear Directions

AFTER RAIDINGajewellerystoreof

bracelets and rings the thieves could

have made good their getaway had

theynotmadeaseriesofsillymis-

takes. First when police in Leicester