Bank Robber Outs Himself After He Fact Checks Local News Reports On His Crimes
from the times-not-to-fact-check dept
You know what they always say: when there's a news article written about you, the facts are always wrong. Of course, in most cases, that's bad, and the fact checking you try to do afterwards is a bit useless. However, in some cases, you would think it would be good. Such as if you were a bank robber, and they had the description about you all wrong. Unfortunately, vanity sometimes gets the better of some people, and apparently a bank robber in Germany contacted the press and the police to correct the "errors" in their reporting on the crime, noting that they got "his age, height, mode of escape and accent wrong." Of course, emailing that info made it easy to track him down, and a few hours later he was in custody. Perhaps that's the trick in capturing overly vain bank robbers. Just get them to do their own fact checking by inserting errors into the police reports...
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Filed Under: crime, criminal, fact checking
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Original German Version (translated to Googlish)
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Original German Version (translated to Googlish)
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
They already do this
"This person is ineffectual, has never held down a job for very long, has a hard time solving complex problems, etc..."
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
My description was wrong
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-8300
Phone: 425-882-8080
----------
Don't you think that this could be exploited by a robber to break into a place, and use their computer and/or internet (wifi cracking) to incriminate someone else?
hmm, interesting!
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
HA HA HA
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
world dumnest criminals
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
[ link to this | view in chronology ]