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Dumb Crime Du Jour

A Daily Look at Criminal Incompetence

By Buck Wolf, About.com

Many criminals are simply not-so-bright people on what is likely to become the most embarrassing day of their life. Here's a daily look at some of the world's least competent crooks.

June 22: '420 Help Is Here'

Michael Dauwalder 2009 Booking PhotoCascade County (Montana) District Court
Apparently, Massachusetts police are hip to the stoner expression "420," and when an alleged dealer advertised his goods on Craigslist, he got busted.

June 21: 'I'm Drunk as Hell'

Michael Dauwalder 2009 Booking PhotoCascade County (Montana) District Court
You know that part of your Miranda Rights that goes "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law"? Michael Dauwalder seemed to have forgotten about that when he allegedly shouted something during a field sobriety test.

June 19: Dad Scars Boyfriend, Goes to Jail

Orville Lee Wollard 2009 Booking PhotoPolk County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office
Orville Lee Wollard says he was just trying to scare his daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend when he took out a revolver and fired it. Nobody was injured, but he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

June 18: Whizzer Violation

Shaun Sneider 2009 Police Booking PhotoSt. Lucie (Fla.) Sheriff's Dept.
With a "fake penis" and an apparatus known as a "Whizzer" down his pants, a 25-yea-old Fla. man attempts to beat a drug test.

June 17: You Owe Me $15 Trillion

The IRS was not at all amused when Marlon T. Moore filed documents claiming that the tax agency owed the south Florida man $15 trillion in tax returns.

June 16: Raw Cruise

Dearry Smiley 2009 Mug ShotWalton County (Fla.) Sheriff's Dept.
A Florida man wearing a hat, sunglasses, sandals and nothing else, asks police, "What's wrong with a man driving home naked?"

June 15: Naked Burglar

linton March 2009 Police Booking PhotoJefferson County (Colo.) Sheriff's Office
Clinton March of Colorado allegedly frightened one woman when he entered her home naked. He then supposedly ran into a neighbor's house, where another woman found him in her bathroom, wearing her nightgown and stockings.

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