Reader's Digest

76 | July• 2018

WORLD’S DUMBEST CRIMINALS

theyattemptedtobuyone-wayair-

farestoMexicowiththestolencash.

heywerecaughtandspenttimein

jail.heiractionsmadeworldhead-

linesbutdidn’tseemtodeter subse-

quentdumbcriminals.

Vanit y Did Him In

THINKING NO ONEwaslookinga

26-year-old bearded thief took a pair

of headphones of the shelf in an elec-

tronicsstorewentintoadressing

room – out of sight or so he thought

W

hile on a working

holiday in the US

back in 2009 two

lads from Byron

Bay in northern

NSWdecidedtorobabankinVail

ColoradowithBBguns–whilestill

wearing the name tags from the

jobthepairworkedat.Theywere

regulars at the bank and probably

theonlyoneswithbroadAustral-

ianaccents.Aftermakingoffwith

$US132000 suspicions arose when