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...Filed Under: crime, criminal, fact checking
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Original German Version (translated to Googlish)
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Original German Version (translated to Googlish)
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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..."
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My description was wrong
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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!
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HA HA HA
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world dumnest criminals
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