News of the Weird March 21 2007 (1)
LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS: 1) Clenzo Thompson, 45, was arrested in New York City in January after allegedly robbing the same Commerce Bank branch twice in three days. The first robbery ended when the chemical dye in the money bag exploded and spooked him, and he apparently failed to learn from that, in that the second robbery’s money bag also exploded. (And three years earlier, Thompson had been caught after another bank robbery after having accidentally dropped his ID on the bank floor.)
2) Michael J. DeWitt, 39, was arrested for DUI in Fort Wayne, Ind., in February after he drove erratically into the parking lot of an Indiana State Police station early in the morning and told officers that he was there “to get a room.” (A Holiday Inn was next door.) (Police later said they matched DeWitt’s Hummer to the vehicle that minutes earlier had collided with a car nearby and left the scene.)
© 2007 Chuck Shepherd