When Crime Fails For Ridiculous Reasons

Get ready for some hilarious dumb criminal stories where the culprits do all the detective work for the cops! This episode dives into true crime fails, from fleeing into maximum security prisons to leaving IOU notes for millions. It's a fast, funny look at tunnel vision and truly epic blunders.
Key Takeaways
- Some criminals are caught due to incredibly simple, almost self-sabotaging mistakes.
- Lack of planning and impulsive decisions often lead to spectacular crime fails.
- Tunnel vision can make criminals overlook obvious clues or the presence of law enforcement.
- Modern technology like GPS and ankle monitors can make it easier than ever to track criminals.
- Ego and adrenaline can significantly undermine even the most basic criminal planning.
Welcome to Almost Famous Radio Podcast, where we dive headfirst into the most unbelievable true crime fails! In this episode, "When Crime Fails For Ridiculous Reasons," we’re trading our usual deep dives for a hilarious, fast-paced tour of incredibly dumb criminal stories. These are the cases where the perpetrators practically hand the police the evidence, doing half the detective work for them. If you're a fan of dumb criminal stories, you’re in for a treat!
Get ready for tales of pure tunnel vision and colossal blunders. We’ve got the guy who thought robbing a coffee shop while two uniformed officers were in line was a good idea. Then there's the shoplifter who managed to steal a bottle of vodka, ask the clerk out on a date, and leave his name and phone number – an absolute masterclass in making apprehension easy. We also explore the escape artist who picked the worst possible hiding spot, and the suspect who tried to flee the cops only to end up inside a maximum-security prison. It’s the kind of chaos that makes you question everything about criminal planning.
Classic 'Caught Instantly' True Crime Fails
We revisit the golden age of modern true crime blunders, where technology and sheer stupidity combine to ensure a swift capture. Think:
- The ease of tracking a stolen iPhone via GPS.
- Ankle monitors that turn a breaking and entering into a live location pin for law enforcement.
- Digital arrogance that leads police directly to the culprit through traced emails.
These stories showcase how a lack of foresight and planning, coupled with a healthy dose of ego, can bring any criminal operation crashing down before it even begins.
Unforgettable Details in Dumb Criminal Stories
Beyond the initial blunder, it’s the bizarre details that make these dumb criminal stories truly unforgettable. We’re talking about:
- A fake police badge ingeniously crafted from a restaurant gift card.
- Counterfeit money discovered inside a printer during a return process.
- Forged bills so poorly executed they put Abe Lincoln on the wrong side of history.
- The horrifying instance where a home invasion crew broke into a Florida home, mistook cremated remains for drugs, and consumed the ashes of a husband and his two dogs.
- A 'take your child to work' day gone wrong when a parent left their young son at the scene of a pet shop robbery.
- A suspect fleeing a robbery who, seeking refuge, jumped into a nudist resort – becoming the only clothed person and an instant giveaway to police.
- The bank robber who fainted mid-heist, only to still hand over a demand note while being attended to by medics.
- Mistaking a state trooper barracks for a hotel, leading to a DUI arrest.
- An employee who 'borrowed' seven million pounds from a bank, leaving a signed IOU note in the safe.
- A break-in that involved watching porn and stealing candy, with police tracking the thief via a trail of M&Ms to his sister's house.
- A cell phone contact labeled 'Jason Pache, drug dealer' found during a police search for someone else.
We dissect these moments to understand what they reveal about ego, attention spans, and how even the most elaborate plans can crumble the instant adrenaline kicks in. If you love funny true crime, utterly stupid criminals, and short stories with massive punchlines, this episode is packed with plenty to discuss.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are some of the most ridiculous ways criminals get caught?
Criminals get caught in absurd ways, like fleeing into a maximum-security prison, leaving their phone number after a robbery, or getting caught in a nudist colony while being the only clothed person.
How do dumb criminals fail so spectacularly?
Spectacular failures often stem from a severe lack of planning, extreme tunnel vision, and impulsive decisions that overlook obvious consequences or police presence.
What happens when criminals have tunnel vision?
Tunnel vision leads criminals to miss critical details, such as uniformed officers in a coffee shop line or the fact that they're mistaking a police barracks for a motel.
What are examples of crimes failing due to lack of planning?
Examples include leaving an IOU for seven million pounds, using a stolen iPhone with GPS tracking, or a thief being tracked by a candy trail.
00:00 - Backyard Studio Banter And Beer
04:44 - Dumb Criminals Kick Things Off
12:22 - Parenting Fails And Public Robberies
17:51 - Escapes Gone Wrong In Plain Sight
24:06 - Signed Confessions And Candy Trails
31:51 - Fake Badges And Counterfeit Blunders
38:38 - Bank Heists Fizzle And Weird Assaults
47:52 - Tattoos Tell On Murderers
01:02:14 - Florida Chaos And Final Faceplants
Backyard Studio Banter And Beer
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, we'll see how that worked, right?
RayetteI'm glad you know how to run this podcast. From our humble backyard studio, this is the Almost Famous Radio podcast with your host, Jeffy McJefferson.Let's go
Jeffy McJeffersonAnd welcome to the Almost Famous Radio Podcast. Jeffy McJefferson here, ruling with an iron fist. Iron fist.
RayetteYeah, right.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo. Today we have Rayette.
RayetteHello.
Jeffy McJeffersonThe Ricker Oh yeah. Sitting in his mom's. What's up, Mom? There you go. That's all I need to do.
RayetteShe didn't want a mic today.
Jeffy McJeffersonI wonder what Red's drinking today.
RayetteGive you one guess.
Jeffy McJeffersonI'll give you two.
RayetteYou should have bought stock.
Jeffy McJeffersonShould've bought stock.
RayetteD B. Little Dutch bros
RickerThere we go. What is this again? Ninkasi something or other.
Jeffy McJeffersonRed IPA?
RickerRed IPA.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. It's good stuff. Juniorzafa and it's kind of like you know, it's from Georgetown. And I love Georgetown. Right.
RayetteIt's a baby Bodie.
Jeffy McJeffersonKind of a baby Bodie, but it's not that great. It's not I shouldn't say it's not that great. It's an all-day drinker type of thing. It's not even that. It's like uh I'll finish the six pack and never buy it again. Okay.
RayetteThey watered it down too much.
Jeffy McJeffersonI don't know. Maybe? Or something.
RayetteIt was worth a shot.
Jeffy McJeffersonIt's not bad. It was worth a shot.
RickerAnd that was all it gets is one. One shot. One shot. See ya.
RayetteOne shot. We're looking for hop slice. If anybody has hop slice, bring that back.
Jeffy McJeffersonThey're never gonna . Yeah, they're never gonna they're never gonna bring that up. Deschutes if you're listening. Hop slice. Yeah, Deschutes. I thought they changed and Deschutes ain't listening. Brewers. And that's what sucks is that brew masters do it. And hop slice is a perfect summer beer, and it's a like a session like IPA that they had. And it's got a little Meyer Lemon. Right. And I'm not a really lemon beer fan. Except for this. I could pre-collect twenty of those motherfuckers and not even get drunk. Okay. So anyway. Anywho. Shall we get on with the subject at hand?
KristaDo it.
Jeffy McJeffersonThis is Rayette's a gang.
RayetteBecause I says have such great ideas.
Jeffy McJeffersonBecause she has such great ideas. Man, I was in a I honestly, I was in a dry. I was kind of you know how musicians get dry.
RickerWell, writers, the same thing. You get up, you just can't freaking function.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, I was like thinking, well, what the hell, man? I was like, I and I actually texted you last night. I said, hey, I got a I got an idea. And then I woke up this morning and I was like, It's not such a great idea. It sucks so bad. And I'm like, I'm not doing that shit.
RayetteBlows.
RickerYeah, I was gonna I I was I wasn't gonna come back with it.
Jeffy McJeffersonBlows goats, I have proof.
RickerI wasn't gonna say anything. I was gonna wait until you told me. Well, no, I I was I was willing to give it a shot, but uh you never uh uh went any further, and I thought, well, it must have really sucked because it must have sucked hard. I told him it might get the ball rolling, but it it wasn't uh it wasn't an hour long make you happy. Yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonI mean I mean this of this program. Oh, the program. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you got the program.
RayetteNow you got it. Now you understand. Now I understand. It's all about the program.
Jeffy McJeffersonYes. It is all about the program. Okay. Well, now we're on Rayette. So Ray and Rayette got it. And she We were at cartwrights today. No. Tell me more. Okay, I'll let you know. We drove.
RickerNo, don't let's just skip to the freaking. Found a shady parking space. And we found a place. Yeah, okay. Okay.
Dumb Criminals Kick Things Off
RayetteSo we're gonna talk about some dumb criminals today.
Speaker 2Yeah.
RayetteBecause there's some dumb criminals out there. Would you agree?
RickerOh, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, there's dumb people, and there's uh enough of them that have a criminal intent that's a very good thing. It's like Michael Jackson and and another bandit smooth criminal.
Jeffy McJeffersonThese aren't smooth criminals.
RayetteThese are not smooth criminals.
Jeffy McJeffersonAlien ant form farm. Yes, thank you. You're welcome. Kind of forgot about who it was. Yeah.
RayetteOkay. So this one, some police in I'm gonna badger this name. Osing Osining New York?
RickerOsining.
RayetteAusining?
RickerI think so. Okay, that sounds better.
RayettePolice Ausinine, New York, were called to a mini mart where they found Blake Leek, 23 years old, trying to break in. They chased Leek through the streets until both cops took a tumble. Seizing the opportunity, Leek sought re refuge on the grounds of a large building. The building was the Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison where he was promptly nabbed by a guard.
RickerSo he basically ran back home. That's what he did. I'm coming home because I'm stupid. Blake Leek. Yeah, I know.
RayetteI know. What a nice name, right?
RickerThat's perfect.
RayetteSorry if your last name's Leek.
RickerYeah, I think it is austening because same saying is.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, you're gonna apologize for the guy's name being leak.
RickerI don't think you should apologize for anything this cat does.
Jeffy McJeffersonSo that the cops go back and they go, hey man, we uh took a leak. We did take a leak. Yeah.
RickerActually, Leek took himself, basically. Well, true, but I don't say anything. Yeah, we took a leak. We took a leak. Yeah.
RayetteI guess you could say that.
RickerYeah. That's not really smart going to the prison instead of hilarious, though. It is funny. It is. I'm just gonna run right towards the prison. Like you don't even know where in the fuck you're at.
KristaRight.
RickerI mean, literally. It's like I've lived here all I'd see, I'd like to know if he lived there all his life. Because I got a feeling he is.
Jeffy McJeffersonSo Andy's a frame on freaking on the movie. Yeah. He crawled through like yards and yards of shit. Right. Got out, and he goes, uh, probably should go back. Uh no. No, absolutely not. I'm sure you took a leak during it.
RickerWell, at that point, you're wearing it. You might as well just, you know, live with it. I think so. It's the one time, it's it's acceptable. Yeah. You're in a pile of poo and pee. Uh if you, you know, nobody's gonna know if you build yourself or not. Yeah, there's no there's no difference.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou're on you know, you escape from Shaw Shank. Yeah. And you're like, okay, well, I'm crawling through all these miles of shit. Yeah. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna add to it. I'll just go ahead and you're not gonna stop because you're already trying to get out of out of prison. You don't have to worry about taking a piss. You don't have to worry about taking a shit, because you're crawling through it.
RayetteNobody would know.
RickerYou're just part of the stream. It's a stream. Well, it's a stream of I don't thank God for him it was raining.
Jeffy McJeffersonNastiness. Because it was raining, you know, that when he got out. Yeah, how lucky was that? Well, because he knew it was a thunderstorm coming because you know he was like hitting the mic.
RickerYeah, but you've been in dry thunderstorms. I've been in quite a few out here at least.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, you had to take the take the chance. Yeah. So okay, number two.
RickerGo ahead.
RayetteHang on, I just hit the wrong button. Oh shit. Here we go. A Scottish shoplifter was picked up after pinching a bottle of vodka from a liquor store. It didn't take Sherlock Holmes to find Morrison, though. His name and phone number were left with the clerk after asking her out on a date.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou gotta be kidding me. Can you do that in a Scottish accent though, babe?
RayetteNo.
Jeffy McJeffersonOkay. Just checking. Because I d I I can't. I can I can't do accents like that.
RayetteNo, I can't either.
RickerBut he left The only thing I can do is He left his name and number for the clerk. My neighbor was Scottish. He always used to threaten us.
RayetteBut then he stole a bottle of liquor, and so they were easy to catch him because they knew who he was.
RickerUh yeah, they did. And they probably had his phone number. Here's my number. Well they did because he Yeah. Right.
Jeffy McJeffersonThey did have the phone number, right?
RayetteYeah. They got it from the girl that was. The girl, yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonI wonder how hot.
RayetteLuke probably did not go out with him.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, it'd like to well, she couldn't, yeah. Not not immediately, at least. Kind of wondered how hot she was. You think she was hot? Really it didn't matter, but probably not.
RickerI I I think to the you know, the to the stupid criminal part of the story, not that's really immaterial.
Jeffy McJeffersonMan, if you're gonna do all that shit and leave your name and phone number, it would be a good idea. It should be it should be some.
RickerYeah, she should be extremely, you know. Yeah. Obviously not. Yeah, I mean, it sh it should be worth it. Okay. Put it this way.
RayetteHang on, this keeps messing up.
RickerYeah, because that's okay.
Jeffy McJeffersonWe'll still talk about that hot Scottish chick that had a phone number. Is there hot Scottish chicks?
RickerI was watching Top Gear, and they had you know, because it's over in England and England. England. England. And they had some Scottish pop singer on there, some girl.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RickerAnd she was very good looking.
Jeffy McJeffersonOkay.
RickerYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, we got that going. Yeah. They got that going.
RickerYou couldn't understand her because she had that Scottish accent. Scottish I don't even know.
Jeffy McJeffersonScottish. I don't know.
RayetteI don't know either. Okay. For a trio of drug thieves, it was their lucky day. They broke into a home in Silver Springs, Florida and discovered three jars of cocaine. They took it home and snorted the contents. That's when they discovered that the jars, in fact, were urns and that they were snorting the cre cremains of the victim's husband and two dogs.
Jeffy McJeffersonFirst off, don't fuck around with Florida cops. No, no, no, no. That's always a lot of people. I've watched a little bit of on patrol live, you know, from you know, and they had the Florida people. Yeah. Those motherfuckers don't play.
RickerUh no, and they encouraged the uh citizenry to be armed and freaking don't play either. That's not really bright. Yeah. I mean, I wonder if they got high. You know, if the cremanes were, you know, if they were so wasted when they got cremated that they thought they were high as fucking shit.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou know, and they're like, oh, dude, this is the best fucking coke ever.
RickerWouldn't that be hilarious? It's like you have nothing in your system, stupid. Yeah.
RayetteExcept nothing.
RickerOther than dogs. Yeah. You got a little bit of freaking dog hair.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, you tested it. That's it. You tested me. I I wasn't fucked up. But you broke in, so you're not going to be able to do it. Yeah, you're you're going, you're going. You're going to jail. Yeah. Good job, guys. Yeah.
Parenting Fails And Public Robberies
RayetteAll right. This one, bring your child to work day, is a long-honored tradition that allows children to see what goes on in the business world while also getting the chance to watch their parents ply their trade. One crook brought his young son along with him on a job, which happened to be robbing a pet shop. He was caught soon after, minus something important, his son.
RickerHe left his son at the store.
RayetteYep.
RickerThat's some that's some brilliance right there. I got everything I need except. This is like watching the jerk all over again. All I need is, all I need is, all I need is, and the one thing you don't need, oh, the kid that you forgot. I'm kind of like, yeah. First this.
Jeffy McJeffersonBecause I I I I don't even know what to say on this one. That's dumbassery. Golly.
RayetteI know, right? Bring your son to work day.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, yeah. So you're yeah.
RayetteSo you go rob a place.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou're a robber. Okay. Well, I guess that's a yeah. Not a brilliant one.
RayetteNo, definitely not.
RickerNot on the, you know.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo, Father of the Year categories. Probably not going to happen.
RickerThis is he's they're not going to make a Pink Panther movie out of this. They're not going to make either. It's not going to happen.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo.
RayetteNo.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. They'll have some stupid show about it. But anyway.
RayetteAll right. This one, as two men waited in line at the coffee shop to pay their bill, a third cut in front of them. He threw a drink at the clerk and demanded all the money from the till. Temporarily surprised, the men quickly recovered and handcuffed the crook. Apparently, in his rush, the criminal didn't notice that they were police officers in full uniform.
RickerWow.
RayetteHe had one thing in mind, and that was robbing that till.
RickerRight. And he didn't notice the two cops that were standing there.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, he didn't think about the cops.
RickerNo. Well, you know, you gotta give him one thing. Genius. Not genius, obviously. It's blinders on. He's so focused, he's not thinking about anything. Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
RayetteHe only had one thing in mind, and that was Robin that Till.
RickerSo he is so super hyper focused that he's dumb to everything around.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, you got to give him credit for that, I guess.
RickerWell, you got to give him credit for something, but I don't know if it's anything having to do with brains. No.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, could he could he do that equation on the board like on Goodwill? Doubt it. Okay. But he was hyper focused on getting that till. He was hyper focused. Wonder how much was in the till. Probably $10.
Speaker 2I was going to say it's a coffee shop. Probably not.
RickerCome on. Yeah, remember it's usually cards. Yeah, but I mean you're a cash payer. I am. Yeah. But he also doesn't go to coffee shops. Yeah, and I don't go to. But I mean, most people aren't anymore. It's like robbing banks is really or robbing businesses, yeah. Not really smart anymore because there's not a whole lot of cash business going on.
Jeffy McJeffersonIf I was gonna freaking really be a crook like this, and I and I'd be dumb, obviously, but I'm I'm gonna go for robbing a bank.
RayetteIf you're gonna go back.
RickerYou gotta go big, man. Yeah, that's where the money's at.
RayetteIf you're gonna go, you gotta go big.
RickerYeah. Well, at least do your research and find out what's a good cash business. And I know it never works. You know, bank robbers don't really get away with anything. No, they usually get away with a prison sentence. That's what they get away with. That's true. That that's the one thing they usually get.
Jeffy McJeffersonBut you know, male ego. Male ego is like, hey, you know what? I'll go ahead and I can do this. I'm better than anybody else. Fuck these other bank robbers, man.
RickerThese guys are stupid. Yeah, that's right. It's just like communism, man. It's just the wrong people trying it.
Jeffy McJeffersonI'll be babyface Nelson, asshole. Okay, go ahead.
RayetteAll right. Recently, a woman in Fresno, California was stopped at a DUI checkpoint for being soused. Ever helpful, she offered up this info. My husband's right behind me, and he's even drunker than I am.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's kind of that's kind of brilliant. Awesome. It's brilliant.
RickerDon't look at me, look at him. Yeah. That is pretty good. Except you're both going to jail.
Jeffy McJeffersonIt's classic Fresno, though, right?
RickerIt is. If I said that my brother-in-law lives in Fresno, and I guarantee if I told him this, he'd go, Yeah, this is that's about my girl.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, my girl Maria, she lived in Fresno. So and she tells me stories about Fresno all the time. This sounds Fresno all the way.
RickerIf you told her this, there would be no surprise in her voice. No, she needs to listen to it. Yeah.
RayetteShe would go, uh have her listen to this and be like, there's some stuff about Fresno on there. Yeah, yeah. Don't tell her what or where or anything.
RickerAnd the worst thing, she'd probably go, Well, that's nothing.
RayetteYeah, probably.
RickerYeah, we've nothing.
Jeffy McJeffersonWe might even get another topic on the show about Fresno.
unknownYeah.
RickerYeah, why haven't you had her on? I bet you she could do a f show on stupid criminals just in Fresno.
RayetteProbably.
unknownYeah.
RickerLiterally.
Jeffy McJeffersonI've tried to get her on, but she's got to come all the way from what, Shady Cove?
Speaker 2Oh, okay. Well that's 20 minutes. Sorry. Maria, come home.
RayetteAll right.
Speaker 2Next
Escapes Gone Wrong In Plain Sight
Speaker 2one.
RayetteWhen an attempted robbery at a Lowe's home improvement store went awry, Milton Hodges fled across the street and jumped a fence right into the Cypress Cove nudist resort and spa. As the Orlando Sentinel pointed out, as one of the only folks wearing clothing, Hodges was easily spotted by police.
Jeffy McJeffersonIf you're gonna rob a place.
RayetteTake a look at the city.
Jeffy McJeffersonJump into a nudist coming. But yeah, get rid of your but get rid of your clothes.
RayetteThen you'd blend in.
Jeffy McJeffersonMaybe he had a okay. Maybe he had a teeny weeny.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell. I'd rather get caught by the cops. Right. That's it. Just turn yourself in at that moment. Personally, I'd rather get caught by the cops than have to expose yourself and blend in. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, I couldn't even helicopter. This, you know, if he could helicopter, he should have gone and done that. Show off, yeah. Show off. Yeah. Show off, show out. So it's a dudest colony. So there's is it a beach or just a colony?
RayetteJust a colonnade.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, okay.
RayetteI don't know. Doesn't give me specifics.
RickerIt's a beach, man. The dude with the clothes doesn't belong. This is this is not like trying to find Waldo. It's real easy. He doesn't have weird clothes. He's got clothes. And everybody else doesn't.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RickerIt's pick this dude out from all the people with birthday suits on. But he know Lowe's? I I wouldn't even know how. Yeah, and what are you stealing from Lowe's? Lowe's.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, I guess.
RickerYou know, he was he was the one clothed and had a two by four on his shoulder. Yeah, which is come on, dumbass.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, which is not even, you know, plain. It's probably, you know, all warped like everything else is from Lowe's.
RayetteIt's true. All right. It's the worst pop possible time to faint in the middle of robbing a bank. But here's what happened. But that's what happened to a Beaver Creek, Ohio thief. The teller called 911 and asked for medics, but you have to applaud the man, stick it to stick it to evness.
Jeffy McJeffersonStick new Yeah, stick to it and if it's right. I can't say it comes from. I'm from Oklahoma.
RayetteWhile the ambulance was on route, the suspect handed a note to the teller demanding all her cash.
Jeffy McJeffersonI'm kind of impressed by him trying to go ahead and just follow through on it. Yeah.
RayetteHe did a good follow through.
Jeffy McJeffersonHe did.
RickerWell, he's from Ohio. Yeah, he's from Ohio, so I and I don't want to, you know. Yes, you do. Yeah, I I do, but I I won't. How's that?
RayetteIs that like the Fresno of California, the Ohio of the Ross?
RickerWell, when you're from Michigan, everybody Yeah, yeah, we hate we hate everybody from Ohio, basically. Just as a general rule. Not not because we want to, and there's some people from Ohio that I love to death, but as a general rule. Yeah. You're from Ohio, I'm from Michigan. And he's like, We don't like you. This is not surprising for Ricker. Yeah. That's this guy's from Ohio. Yeah. It's it's like orange and white for him.
Jeffy McJeffersonThis doesn't work.
RickerO H I O shit.
Jeffy McJeffersonI'm in jail. Yeah.
RickerYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's it.
RayetteWhat rhymes with jail? Ohio.
RickerClose enough. Close enough. Yeah. It's a four-letter word. It's a four-letter word, and it's yeah. There's fuck, there's jail, and there's Ohio. Yeah.
Speaker 1Ohio.
RayetteWell, Mitchell Deslate walked into a Baton Rouge, Louisiana hotel and asked the clerk for a room. The clerk wasn't a clerk. He was a state trooper. The hotel was actually a state trooper station, and that's when Deslate was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated.
RickerSo he asked for a room at the freaking How can they charge him at the jail highway patrol barracks?
RayetteBecause he drove there.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh Yeah.
RickerThere's not suspicion of when you're going to be able to do it.
Jeffy McJeffersonHe already parked and took out his keys, right?
RickerI'm on this Violete or whatever the fuck his name is or whatever. I I get it. I I get your your point, but you know I I'm just letting you know that if you roll into a state troopers' barracks, there's go no there's going to be cameras. Well he's gonna get a room. Yeah, he's gonna get a place to stay. He's got a place to stay. You're right.
RayetteHe didn't even have to pay for it.
RickerNo, he got a free room. It's probably a $10,000 free room at the end of the whole thing.
Jeffy McJeffersonI think he's gonna get away with that. Because he got room and board. Yeah, he probably got a free meal out of it. They charge him with DUI, but uh I'm sure they got cameras, I guess.
RayetteBut absolutely they have cameras outside the police station.
RickerAbsolutely. And they got him driving in and getting out of the car and slammed. Yeah, this is an easy one.
Jeffy McJeffersonWhatever his name is?
RayetteMike Mitchell.
Jeffy McJeffersonMitchell. Hey, Mitchell, good try.
RickerYeah. I gotta hand it to him on that one. Yeah. But mistaking a police barracks for a freaking motel. Kind of looks like not really, not really. You would have to be hammer pants. Hammer pants.
RayetteI've seen people hammer pants.
RickerWe're not gonna name names anymore.
RayetteI didn't name any names. If y'all are calling out yourself, that's on you.
RickerOf course. Nobody's calling out anybody's name. I'll call it myself.
Jeffy McJeffersonAnd that's that's from going to Mike's.
RickerWell, that was that was a mistake that you will probably never make again. And me as well. I went quite as I was not feeling quite so good either. So yeah.
RayetteI felt fine.
RickerWell, yeah, that's funny. One party ball versus his drinks. Yeah.
RayetteI know my limits.
RickerYeah, well, there was, yeah, there were limits, and they got thrown out the door. Yeah.
Signed Confessions And Candy Trails
RayetteSo Graham Price of South Wells ripped off the bank where he worked, where he wasn't completely duplicitous. Duplic du Why do they have such duplicate?
Speaker 2Duplicitous. There you go. Duplicitous.
RayetteHe left a note in the safe, borrowed seven million pounds, signed Graham Price. He left an IOU.
Speaker 1That is awesome. That is awesome. That is really awesome.
RayetteHe just needed a raise to be able to pull up pay it back.
RickerRight.
RayetteThat's all he needed.
RickerYeah.
RayetteJust give him my.
RickerI'm borrowing this. It was just a simple phone. It's only seven million pounds. It's a simple loan.
Jeffy McJeffersonAnd they could have charged him interest on it and stuff like that. No interest because they could have charged him.
RickerI said, hey, you know what, Graham? Okay. You got your seven. It wouldn't be Graham at that point. It'd be G RAM because he's off the hook right there. G RAM.
Jeffy McJeffersonI think that was kind of a good move. Why am I siding with these assholes? I don't know. I don't know what your deal is. But I think because it was like kind of a cool thing that he did.
unknownI don't know about that.
Jeffy McJeffersonIt's not very bright, though. Well, I mean, he's like, hey, it's just a little bit. It's pretty funny. Well, I mean, he couldn't get there, he couldn't get there, you know, to wait the loan out.
RickerWe're not talking about we're not talking about borrowing two pounds for a freaking beer on the way home. We're talking about a million pounds. How many million?
RayetteSeven million pounds.
RickerSeven million pounds. I wonder how much that is. I'm just gonna borrow it. Seven million pounds off is that Australia? South Wales, that's yeah, that's Australia.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's Wales.
RickerNo. No, no, no. South Wales. Yeah. South Wales, New South Wales is Australia. Well, either way.
RayetteI don't know how much it is.
RickerGood try. Well, maybe maybe it is Southern Wales and it's in Britain. I don't know. Who knows? He's just a great guy. Just a great guy. Well trying to borrow seven million pounds. No, it's in Wales.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo, is it New South Wales, you said?
RayetteIt just said South Wales.
Jeffy McJeffersonIt just says South Wales is in South Wales. Is in Australia, yeah. But South Wales is in Wales. Okay. Okay. Okay. My bad. I looked that up.
RayetteOkay. A good Samaritan noticed an elderly man being robbed, so he jumped in and punched the thief. The thief was so upset he called the police to complain.
RickerI like him. He's gonna go far in life. You get punched in the face for trying to rob somebody and you complain. Not so bright. Not so bright. Not so bright? No.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo, I think I'm tired of any of these assholes.
RickerYeah, I think I think you can take a break from it. This one, this one gets no defense.
RayetteYeah.
RickerYeah. Sorry, you you you get punched in the face for trying to rob somebody, you get punched in the face. But you know what? Take it and learn.
Jeffy McJeffersonHere's the thing. Nowadays, he probably will win the case, win the case.
RickerYou know, it wouldn't that be wouldn't that be delicious if if if it was delicious. Yeah. Nice. You know, well, I mean, you know, so freaking stupid that you call it delicious that he would win a lawsuit against whoever punched him for keeping this crime from happening.
RayetteYeah.
RickerWouldn't it well I should I shouldn't say delicious, typical. It would be completely expected that if if some lawyer got hold of it, oh you're 100% you're owed money.
RayetteYeah.
RickerAnd then if that lawyer happened to turn up, you know, as your plant food, well.
RayetteI like the title of this one. It says Next Time Steal a Milky Way.
Jeffy McJeffersonUh oh.
RayetteWhen Stephen Crane broke into the Ravelli Republic newsroom, he used the computers to watch porn and check Facebook. Then Crane doused the office with a fire extinguisher, took some candy, and left. It wasn't difficult to find him, however. The police just followed the trail of stolen MMs that led to his sister's place across the way.
RickerFirst of all, stupid criminal kudos to him for MMs. Watching porn.
RayetteWatching porn.
RickerOh, okay. Okay. I I I was thinking, you know, stealing the MMs. Okay. Where was the Milky Way on that?
RayetteI don't know. It just said should a next time steal a Milky Way.
RickerYou wouldn't be trailing you wouldn't trail the Milky Way. You would trail MMs. Yeah, but the Milky Way would be away. Yeah. It would be in your fucking mouth. Okay. Are you getting this, Jeffy?
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, I'm getting it. I'm just saying, uh work with me. Okay. No, work with me, because this guy is like not bad. Go ahead. He's your body. He's my buddy. There we go.
RayetteWhen police in Vancouver, Canada asked to search Jason Pache's apartment for drugs, he was not a suspect. In fact, they were looking for someone else. That all changed when they got a look at how his name was listed on his cell phone. Jason Pache, drug dealer.
RickerHmm.
Jeffy McJeffersonI don't know if I could defend that guy. I don't.
RickerGo ahead and try. I want to hear this. I can't. Well, no, try. Try. How? I I don't know. Come up with something. You've come up with something for everybody else. Not everybody. Pretty close. This guy. You know. I'm going to have to say this is not.
Jeffy McJeffersonI think he I think he's going to get off with it.
RickerI think he's going to, you know. You think he he's just going to go in there and say, well, you don't have any proof. I was just joking. He says drug dealer on his what what?
RayetteCell phone.
RickerOn his cell phone. Yeah. Yeah.
RayetteWho names your own cell phone though?
unknownYeah.
RickerI mean. A weirdo who's a drug dealer wants everybody to know, I guess.
RayetteIn case you lose it, right.
RickerYeah, please get it. You know, look for drug dealers in the neighborhood and you you'll know you'll find me.
RayetteI mean, dumb. That's the title of this podcast. Dumb.
RickerIt kinda is.
RayetteThis one's pretty good. Two men decided a back to school event at an office supply store would be the perfect time to do some shoplifting. After all, store clerks would be busy helping an influx of shoppers. The sale happened to coincide with the annual shop with a cop day when about six police officers showed up to help children pick out school supplies.
Jeffy McJeffersonTerrible, terrible planning. Terrible planning. That's what the hell? Wouldn't you think you would plan that a little bit better?
RickerThat that's just going to another line of work.
Jeffy McJeffersonHe might have been friends with that guy that tried to get a freaking room at the cop shop.
RickerOr the one who ran into the prison. Or either way. Golly. Yeah. This is this is let's let's freaking make it easy on the uh plan your henders.
Jeffy McJeffersonWork your plan.
RickerYeah, well.
RayetteThat was not planned.
RickerThat well, it was not well planned for sure. If it was planned, it was planned by idiots.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RayetteHilarious.
Jeffy McJeffersonThink a little bit, Holmes.
Fake Badges And Counterfeit Blunders
RayetteWell, Aiden Ramirez had it all figured out. He would be a cop without having to take the Aiden Ramirez? Uh-huh.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. That's a freaking stepson.
RayetteMight be Adon Ramirez. I don't know.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh, okay.
RayetteAdon Ramirez. Okay. Had it all figured out. He would be a cop without having to take the boring test. But he was arrested in Grapevine, Texas, after pulling over a driver in his pickup truck outfitted with flashing lights. He even had an ID padge which he'd made by blocking out a restaurant gift card and etching the word police. However, he kept the restaurant's logo, a jalapeno pepper, surrounded by the words Chipotle Mexican grill.
RickerSometimes the best description is none whatsoever.
Jeffy McJeffersonWhat he wonder what he got for that. I mean, like his sentence was for that. You're stupid and you live with it for the time.
RayetteI'm guessing not free burritos at Chipotle for the rest of his furries. Probably not.
Jeffy McJeffersonI'm guessing that's guessing that's okay. I mean he's he's not gonna have the absolute shit.
RayetteOr he was sentenced to free burritos at Chipotle for the rest of his life.
Jeffy McJeffersonGreat call.
RayetteYou have to eat Chipotle for the rest of your life. Yeah, yeah. And get the shits every time you turn around. That's your sentence.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, your sentence is to eat Chipotle all the time.
RayetteEither the shits or or salmonella or all that shit that they're gonna do.
RickerThey're always getting sick. I think I've read them. I'd read them in the news.
RayettePeople are always getting sick there.
RickerWell, it yeah, it kind of calmed down, but like for like a two-year run, it was like sick.
RayetteYeah.
RickerThere was something. Yeah. And it was usually salmonella.
RayetteI've never eaten there in my life.
RickerNo. No.
RayetteHave you ever eaten at Chipotle?
RickerNo, that the whole freaking everybody getting sick all the time. I tried it. Yeah, I'm okay.
Jeffy McJeffersonI tried it and got the uh absolute shits from it. You did? Yeah. Way back in the day. Okay. Well, I guess.
RayetteIt always looks good on TV, too.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh well, hell yeah. They're they got they got the best looking freaking like guacamole and shit like that.
RayetteYeah. Could they make it fresh every day, it says.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RayetteI don't know. You get a fresh shit every day before I had a target store in Augusta, Georgia agreed to take a printer back from a dissatisfied customer. Then the clerk noticed some work that the customer forgot to remove from the machine. Some counterfeit bills.
Jeffy McJeffersonWow.
RickerThat's Augusta. That's where the masters is. Doesn't mean everybody's smart.
RayetteWell he was making some money to go to the masters, maybe.
RickerWell, hell yeah.
RayetteBut he forgot to take him out of the printer. Well, that wasn't the smartest.
Jeffy McJeffersonI've never even thought about, you know, like doing counterfeit shit.
RayetteBut no, there's all those security things on them and stuff.
Jeffy McJeffersonRight.
RayetteI don't know.
RickerIt is uh duplicating the the the the holograms and the paper. The paper itself is the feel of it is so unique uh there's no way to do it. But if you did, I mean would you like to do it?
Jeffy McJeffersonBut if you did No, seriously though, if you if you wanted to to counterfeit bills, all these assholes that try to do it are like big bill guys. Right. I mean, go with like fives and tens, tens, and ones and shit like that. Yeah, you may get a you may get I wouldn't do anything over a 20.
RickerI wouldn't do any of it, period, because if you did, I think if you did, yeah. Yeah, you couldn't go over Do you really want to do that shit?
Jeffy McJeffersonI mean, oh you know, one, you know, good enough.
RayetteOnes you could take into like a strip joint, though, and just hell yeah.
RickerHell yeah, wash the shit out of that crap right there.
Jeffy McJeffersonChing, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching.
RickerThere you go.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's kind of that's kind of genius, really.
RickerYeah.
unknownYou're right.
KristaFreaking there you go.
RickerYour wife is a freaking criminal, a mastermind. Never gonna be on the stupid criminal list.
RayetteI'm not on this list, yeah. Yeah.
RickerShe's she's a smart criminal.
RayetteI haven't got through the whole list yet, though, so we never know.
RickerYeah, here we go.
RayetteWell, two machete wielding men barged into a Sydney, Australia bar demanding money. They didn't know the club was hosting a biker's meeting at the time. One of the robbers ended up in the hospital, the other hog tied with electrical wire.
Jeffy McJeffersonMan, I would like to meet the dudes that's fucking. I'd love to. I'd love to, man.
RickerI would have to buy them a beer or five. So it's like a biker, like Harley people? No, no, no. Bikers. Oh, bikers. Oh, like in Australia, it could be. No, no, no, no, no. Bikers. Motorcycles, but that's what I'm saying. Like Harleys? Well, it could be Harleys or could be, you know, just motorcycles. Not schwins. Yeah. Motorcycles.
Jeffy McJeffersonHarley's not schwins. That's what I'm saying.
RayetteYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. But these guys, I like to meet the guys. Oh, I would too. Yeah.
RayetteYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat would be hilarious, man.
RayetteYeah. That would have been great.
RickerYou know, you know that those guys freaking tell this story all the time. They probably beat the ever-loving hell out of them, too. They probably did.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RickerAnd with a smile on their face, laughing the entire time. Oh, you guys made the biggest mistake ever, ever, ever, ever. Yeah. Until now.
Jeffy McJeffersonLet's face it, you fucked up.
RayetteBecause in Mesa, Arizona, a home break-in was foiled when the burglar jumped through the bedroom window and got trapped in a clothes hamper. Cops took it from there. That definitely wasn't the kind of clean getaway he had planned.
Jeffy McJeffersonClothes hamper. Wow. Look at the pun on that shit. There's so many puns, it's unbelievable. Got trapped in a hamper.
RickerI don't know what kind of clothes hamper it was, but I just imagine, can you imagine telling all your friends, yeah, you know, I was breaking into a house, and then I squeezed through the window, and it was a it was a Chinese freaking finger torture device that I landed in. That's basically what it is. I couldn't get away from the clothes hamper.
RayettePut it under the window, and then you're safe.
RickerThere you go.
RayetteYeah. See.
RickerThere you go.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's all you gotta do.
RayetteThat's all you gotta do.
Jeffy McJeffersonOkay. Yep.
Bank Heists Fizzle And Weird Assaults
RayetteWell, Joseph Goates' alleged attempt to rob a York, Pennsylvania bank met with some snags. Cops say the first teller he tried to rob fainted, and the next two had no more cash in their drawers. Fed up, Goats stormed out, threatening to write an angry letter to the bank.
RickerYou guys don't keep enough bank uh enough cash on hand for me to rob you. Now see, I I'd love to hear that I'd love to see the letter.
Jeffy McJeffersonThis is my luck on this. This this goat.
RickerYou'd rob you you'd rob a bank that has tellers with no cash on hand. Yeah.
KristaYeah.
RickerThat would be my luck. Yeah. That's why you don't do it. So hey, goats. Oh, and the other thing is you don't want to spend time in prison. Those two things kind of freaking do it.
RayetteI heard they don't have good food.
RickerThey do.
RayetteThey have good food?
RickerI'm pretty sure. Yeah. They want to keep the prisoners relatively calm. So food isn't from what I understand, so they don't serve Chipotle in prison. The food compared to the food that they serve the military, much better in prison. That's what I've heard. No, I don't I don't know this for a fact because I've only been on one side of that equation and not both.
RayetteSo I'm guessing the service. So let's clear it up for the listeners. Yeah.
RickerNot the jail side.
RayetteNot the jail side. Just clearing that up for everyone. And I don't I I would doubt that.
RickerI would doubt that that tri that that works for jail, only prison. Jail food's probably still shitty as a guess. Like county jails.
KristaGotcha.
RickerNot thinking it's any good.
Jeffy McJeffersonBut again. And we're not gonna do we're not gonna do a podcast about cuisine from jails, by the way. No, because we don't have any freaking experience. So luckily, thankfully. Well, I did go to Punker City jail one time and I got a my breakfast consisted of hostess honey bun.
KristaSo you got lucky.
Jeffy McJeffersonI guess. And I didn't even do anything, but anyway, go ahead.
RayetteThat's a whole different story.
Jeffy McJeffersonWhole different story.
RayetteA German bank robber sent mocking emails to local police re ridiculing their efforts to arrest him. First, he let them know hit that they had his age, build, and accent wrong. Then he corrected their announcement that he'd escaped on foot. No, he had a getaway car. The cops got the last word in, though. When they arrested the guy a few hours later, they traced his email. They used his email to trace him.
RickerGood thinking, genius.
Jeffy McJeffersonWhat the fuck?
RickerYeah. Einstein What's wrong with you, Einstein? Einstein. You're not very bright.
RayettePretty dumb.
RickerYeah. I mean that that number one, that that's really arrogant. So you know, the the stupidity and the arrogance, you deserve it. That's pretty simple. Agreed.
Jeffy McJeffersonGo to jail. Well, I mean, now, I mean, you know, if you shoot emails anywhere now, it's like, hey. Yeah, it's easy to trace you. Well, it's not even that. I mean, everybody was like, hey, emails kind of suck now, nobody does them. Hardly.
RickerThis guy just wanted to freaking bait these assholes.
RayetteIsn't that how BTK got caught too?
RickerNo.
Jeffy McJeffersonHe got caught. We can go into that later.
RayetteOh, I know what that was. Never mind.
RickerIt wasn't it wasn't email.
RayetteNo.
RickerBut it was still dumb. He was extremely arrogant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was extremely arrogant.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RayetteOkay, after a man kicked in the door of a Texas home at 3 30 in the morning.
Jeffy McJeffersonFirst off, I'm going to stop this. Stupid ass, don't kick in any doors in Texas. Yeah, that's that's just wait waiting to get freaking shot in the face.
RickerBut go ahead.
RayetteThe resident fled and called police. When cops arrived, they were surprised to find that the intruder hadn't stolen a thing. Police found the man in the bathroom enjoying a warm bath.
RickerMust have happened in Austin. Must have been happening in the body. Just because of the fact that nobody shot him in the face.
Jeffy McJeffersonAnywhere else in Texas. Yeah, you're getting shot in the game. This guy would have been shot in the face. Yeah.
KristaYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. I was going to like, oh, okay. But no way in Texas this guy's going to need. Hell, you could freaking I expected to hear he got shot like a motherfucker. Yeah.
unknownYeah.
RayetteAs soon as I heard breaking into Texas at 3 30 in the morning.
RickerIdiot. Somebody's getting a freaking slug in their face.
RayetteYeah.
RickerWell, then you could put him in the bath.
RayetteRobbie Rose lost his first place medal and was charged with a felony after it was discovered that he cheated in a Texas fishing tournament tournament by stuffing a one pound weight down the throat of the bass he'd caught. Officials became suspected. When they placed Rose's fish tank in a fish in a tank and it sank to the bottom.
RickerWell, that's that's this is this is an ongoing thing. Yeah, it is. It is. These bass tournaments are huge money. Yeah. That's what they do. They've been finding people cheating for years. Yeah. Yeah. Doing shit like that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yep.
RayetteI had no idea that was a good thing.
RickerOh, or are pre or uh catching fish that aren't you you're not catching them at that tournament. You're catching them and freaking freezing them, and then you're bringing them.
Jeffy McJeffersonIt is a major how much cheating is in a bass fishing tournament. Yeah. It's huge.
RayetteI had no idea.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's huge.
RickerYeah, it's big time. Yeah. And Rob. Somebody got somebody got sent to prison over it. Not too long ago. Robbie Rose, probably. I don't know. You know. But I know I'm I'm I'm pretty sure somebody uh like in the last five years got sent to prison for cheating.
Jeffy McJeffersonThis shit happens way more.
RickerOh man.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RayetteThat sounds pretty interesting. According to the bus driver, it was a brutal and provoked attack. A woman got on his bus and assaulted him with a half-eaten banana. I had banana all over me, he insisted, on my tie, my shirt, and my eye. The woman explained that the driver had almost hit her car and that she, when she entered the bus to rationally discuss the matter, the banana slipped right into his tie, his shirt, and his eye. The court may have not believed that, but did believe her when she argued that it was unreasonable that a banana could cause this much damage. They slapped her with a fine of only about a hundred dollars.
Jeffy McJeffersonShould have been like 50 cents.
RayetteI got banana in my eye.
RickerOh. This sounds like the banana in the tailpipe thing from All I know is that this motherfucker this bus driver guy.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. He really reported this chick cause half-eaten banana. How many people have been assaulted by a half-eaten banana? And live to tell about it.
RayetteAll of them.
Jeffy McJeffersonAll of them, yeah.
RickerAll four of them. Thank you. I've never heard of it. I've never heard of it happening, and it probably isn't a fatal attack. This bus driver needs to have the ever-living shit beat out of him.
RayetteWith a full banana.
RickerOver a long period of time involving with a bunch of bananas. A bunch of bananas. Green. Green, so they're painful. Yeah. No, I yeah, this is a that's a new one. Yeah. I I don't that that's kind of a weird one because I don't know who the who the stupid criminal and who isn't a stupid criminal.
RayetteThey're both kind of dumbass.
RickerYeah, they're both kind of dumb asses. Number one, crying about somebody getting banana in your uniform.
RayetteYeah, come on.
RickerJust happy. Yeah. It's not like these things are like. And how can you know, obviously, you said something to provoke it.
RayetteIt's not mustard or something that would stain you. Like or even, you know what I mean?
RickerLike And and if you had a sense of humor, you'd go.
RayetteYeah.
RickerYou know, you'd have to sit there and go, you know, that's I've never been hit with a banana, but that's pretty damn funny. That this sounds like a skip from Maudville. You should, yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonInstead of like turning this bitch in. Yeah, it's like movie about it and get rich.
KristaYeah, exactly.
RickerI'm the only person to freaking get hit with a banana and live to tell about it. Yeah, TikTok. Yeah.
RayetteI mean, seriously. Whatever, yeah. Yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. You're gonna be like, hey. Oh, but I got fucked up. Sorry. Yeah.
Tattoos Tell On Murderers
RayettePolice in California had an easy time pinning a four-year-old murder on Anthony Garcia. That's because he pinned it on himself with an elaborate tattoo on his chest depicting the killing. Cops noticed the incriminating ink when taking Garcia's mugshot for a petty crime. That tattoo revealed all the details from that night, from the Christmas lights and bent over street lamp near the liquor store where the body was found, to the image of an angry helicopter. Garcia's name was Chopper, machine gunning the victim.
Speaker 1Wow. That's literally awesome.
Jeffy McJeffersonLiterally awesome.
RayetteHilarious.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. That's about as egotistical fucker as you can find.
RickerIt's awesome. I mean, the fact that he got he he was stupid enough to put it in permanent ink on the body. That just goes to show you I'm never gonna get caught to what I guess.
RayetteI don't know. But it said voice. No, no, no.
RickerHe got it, it was petty crime. Oh, I guess that's right. Yeah. They they said it was over petty crime. So well, fuck a tattoo artist, man. You should be out of bed. Well, wait a second. Here's the thing. Okay, you commit a murder. More than likely, crime isn't really something that you don't do generally. You probably do it on a regular basis. You know, if murder's no big deal, you're probably robbing shit and stealing stuff and assaulting people on a regular basis. So the chance that you're gonna go into a jail and told to freaking take your shit off so they can look at your tats is probably pretty high.
RayetteStill going still going. Maybe he just thought it would like blend in the rest with a tattoo artist guy, man.
Jeffy McJeffersonI mean, like, come on, dude. Seriously? Maybe. Maybe. Why the fuck did you not go, hey?
RickerWell, now now hey, here's the thing. What if the tattoo artist didn't say anything and knew about the crime? Does that make him accomplice? Yeah, does that make him complice?
Jeffy McJeffersonBut I mean. Guilty by association or something. Yeah, Nanema. Yeah. Because I mean this guy did this, and then it was like four years after he got the fucking tattoo.
RayetteYeah. Four-year-old murder. So we don't know when he got the tattoo.
RickerWell, I would assume. Well, yeah, sometime in between. So it could have been.
Jeffy McJeffersonBut he still it doesn't matter. You know, the tattooers. He should have gone and done all the work and shit like that, got paid. And then said, hey, this dude admitted to a murder. Hey, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can look at it right on his fucking chest.
unknownYeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonTattoo artist. Step up, man. Be better.
RayetteJames Ryan of Memphis was chal charged with a forgery after he handed a waitress a $100 bill. The waitress knew something was funny with the money. Instead of portly portly visage of Brent Franklin, it was the star of the $5 bill, Abe Lincoln, who was staring back at her.
RickerPut Abe Lincoln in the center instead of Ben Franklin on a $100 bill.
RayetteYep.
Jeffy McJeffersonWhat was the guy's name?
RayetteJames Ryan.
RickerGenius McGenius Sr. That's that's his name. Genius McGeenius. That's like that that's almost a catch-me thing. You could probably get away with that out of Waffle House.
unknownOh man.
RickerNow, if you're gonna steal, that would probably be a good place to steal. I like Waffle House. I bet they I bet they do a lot of cash business at Quatch Waffle House. Two in the morning and two in the morning, they're freaking taking their stripper ones and paying for meals. Yeah, so go ahead, Jake, right. Yeah. If you're gonna steal from uh, you know, anybody, how about how about a waffle? And everybody's wasted anyways. That's what I'm saying. You know, go ahead and do it there. But you know, uh, how many times have you heard stupid criminal think it true? Think it true. Think it true. How many, you know, I'm just I'm trying to help the uh criminal element that aren't so smart. You know, try try a waffle house, you know, strip club or even a day with singles, or even a day. Lots of singles. Yeah. Little sweaty, a little, you know, meaty in the middle, but you know, go ahead. Do it.
Jeffy McJeffersonDude, he could he could have got a bitching ass lap dance for that shit. Yeah. Idiot. Go ahead.
RayetteA woman in Somerset, Massachusetts was arrested for breaking and entering, but she was quickly caught thanks to her ankle bracelet, the one fitted with a GPS system that she had gotten from the police for being on probation from an earlier breaking and entering case.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's a pretty good GPS.
RickerSo basically recidivism is a real thing. That's what this is telling us. That the criminal mind works, criminal enterprise forever. There's no way that I could even justify anything like that for this bitch. I don't need I don't know what to tell you. I'm just saying that, you know, criminals will do criminal things.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. Well, you had to be fucked up again.
RickerNo, that's the pro It's on the way to getting fucked up.
Jeffy McJeffersonNo, I'm saying you had to be fucked up, man, if you got an ankle bracelet and you're still doing the breaking in or any shit.
RickerYeah, but I mean I'm saying that they're, you know, they've got an ankle bracelet. Oh, it could be regular. I don't know. Anyways, okay.
RayetteThe victim's jewelry was missing. The electronics were gone, and a window was smashed. Namunder wonder she was hysterical when an officer of the Calgary police of o arrived. Then her French speaking father called. Speaking in French, she explained that it was all a scam in an order to get the insurance money. What she didn't suspect was that the officer speaks six languages, including French.
RickerGood thinking.
Jeffy McJeffersonBad call. Bad call. Very bad. That would be an oopsie.
RickerSee now, at least that's stupid. But at the same time, you thought you were being sneaky and and you m you made an assumption that was incorrect. What are you dumb assumptions?
RayetteWell, no, because missing cousins.
RickerIt's still not, it's not quite as stupid. It's not quite as stupid. But you're still in Canada and there's a lot of French speakers since I was just gonna say that.
RayetteLike, isn't there isn't that like a pretty common language up there?
RickerBut Calgary is kind of I don't know.
RayetteI've never been there. I don't know where the West are up there.
RickerIt's the w one of the Western provinces, and I don't know if they don't speak as much French over there? I don't I don't think so, but like Quebec and and some of the eastern provinces, that's where most of the French speakers are. But they you know, it's a dual language country. I mean, you know, the French, you know, forced that crap. They were gonna freaking secede from Canada. And then they said, oh, well, we'll make it a dual language or whatever. So yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, anyway, she got fucked.
RickerBecause she made an assumption that was incorrect. Right. A very big assumption.
RayetteWell, Christopher Oxley of Everett, Washington was arrested for conducting a drug deal over the phone in the bathroom of the Everett Police Department.
RickerWell That doesn't surprise that that is I don't even know if that's stupid. I think that's that's another assumption that you're gonna get away with it. Because you're in Washington, they don't they don't actually freaking do anything about crime, do they?
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, you know what to happen.
RayetteYeah, I don't know. These don't have like dates or anything.
RickerBut I don't I don't I don't know if they actually arrest people in one of the people.
Jeffy McJeffersonWould you conduct a drug deal, man, when you're in the fucking police department?
RickerWell, maybe he did it twelve times before and never got arrested.
RayetteMaybe.
RickerThat's the thing. Well he got up there. He got caught, yeah. Yeah. I just uh uh spending.
RayetteBut what was he doing there in the first place? He was because it doesn't sound like a lot of people.
RickerI could tell you stories about going to police stations and you'd probably go, How are you still among us? But yeah. Yeah.
RayetteA 12-year-old boy adamantly denied having stolen an iPhone when the questioned by police at his home. And then the iPhone rang in his closet. Okay, yes, he stole that. But as for the Blackberry that he was also accused of stealing, he double admit admittedly denied that. Ring.
Jeffy McJeffersonReally? Well, first off, did Blackberry and iPhones cross paths anytime?
RayetteThat's a great question because Blackberries are pretty old, right? Yeah, blackberries are real old.
RickerYeah.
RayetteMaybe at the very beginning.
RickerBecause crackberries, remember you used to do the crackberry thing? You used to have the the you know, it had I never had a blackberry. Oh really? We had blackberry phones. I did. I I had them, and it was like you you got your thumbs got used to texting, and you could text pretty fast with a but that's what it was for. It was all about texting.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell that's what I'm saying. Why in the h well, why in the hell is uh you know iPhones came out like I don't even know when iPhones came out.
RayetteI don't know.
Jeffy McJeffersonBut I mean, if they cross paths, I mean well maybe at the very beginning of an iPhone. Well, this twelve-year-old had it had it going on. I guess so.
RayetteClive Halford. Why did I call it stupid names? Clive thinks big. The British career criminal stole the truck and loaded it with 18 pallets of stolen nickel and copper worth around 150 pounds. About $250,000. Yes, the hall was huge, too huge. Cops arrested Halford after the truck's suspension collapsed under the weight. Earlier, Halford had stolen a car, overloaded it, and broken its suspension too.
Jeffy McJeffersonThis reeks of fucking myth. Or or some kind of stupidity.
RickerWell, it's all stupidity. I'm guessing so. I'm guessing so. This just sounds like I mean if you think it's good.
Jeffy McJeffersonThe guy's name's Clive. Clive. And you're thinking maybe it's not like from the case.
RayetteWhat's wrong with the parents that name their kid Clive?
RickerWell, Clive I think Clive's a traditional British name.
RayetteOh, is it? Yeah, it's a good one. Okay, that wouldn't make sense, I guess.
RickerWell, if he would have But it sounds it may be a traditional criminal British name. I don't know. Clive. Clive.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou know, but who knows? That is a fucking dumb name anyway. Yeah.
RayetteSorry if your name is Clive.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. I don't know. I'm not sorry. If your name's Clive, fuck you.
RickerWell, no, if your name's Clive. Don't don't commit stupid crimes and we won't make fun of you.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, if your name if your name's Clive nowadays, you're probably from the deep south. Possible. Yeah. Enjoy your life in Southern Alabama. But go ahead, babe.
RayetteDon't you hate it when you suffer a heart attack and think you're going to die, so you confess to a 17-year-old murder only to find out that you're not gonna die and then get sentenced to life in prison as a result? Yeah, so does James Washington of Nashville, because it happened to him.
Speaker 1Wait a second. Do that one again. Wait.
RayetteYou're having a heart attack, so you think you're going to die, so you confess to a 17-year-old murder, only to find out you're not going to die, and now you're sentenced to life in prison as a result.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou know, unbelievable.
RayetteHe did not take it to his grave.
Jeffy McJeffersonThe only thing that you should probably confess to on you know when you're having a heart attack, think you're gonna die, is uh if you fucked around on your wife or or the wife of the family. I wouldn't confess to shit. Absolutely not. I'm just saying the only thing that you if you if you're gonna be in that situation, you're not gonna go, hey, I murdered somebody, asshole.
RickerYou make a confession between you and your maker in your head. I'm just saying. I hear you there is and you're wrong.
RayetteYeah, but then if you live, then now you're getting a divorce and you've lost everything.
Jeffy McJeffersonBut I'm saying that you might as well be dead. I'm just going with the lesser of two evils. That's all.
RayetteIs it the lesser of two evils?
RickerI don't I think it's evil either way.
RayetteAnd you would you rather have a pissed off wife?
RickerNo, no.
RayetteOr go to jail.
RickerPissed off wife. I think I think the prison sounds like an easier road to freaking hoe.
RayetteAnd a wife that's been scorned.
RickerYeah, yeah. I think you I think you need to rethink. I get what you're saying. I'm just saying.
RayetteRemember, I dug a hole in the backyard and burned every thing that my ex had.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, but I didn't fuck around.
RickerI thought you were gonna say you burn you you dug a hole in in, you know, waiting for his ultimate demise.
RayetteI take a shovel out every day out there.
RickerWell, that's what happens. He died of natural causes, so don't worry about it.
RayetteI've almost got a swimming pool made.
RickerNo, not this one.
Jeffy McJeffersonHe doesn't count. I tried to help you, but couldn't do it. Gay with the old college try.
RayetteOh, Ricker will like this one.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, of course.
Florida Chaos And Final Faceplants
RayetteCallie Ruff of Middleton, Ohio. Ohio was picked up in shop for shoplifting from a Dollar General store with her two young children in tow. Among the Booty was a book, 101 Ways to Be a Great Mom.
RickerYou can't make this shit up. I'm stealing, but I'm stealing to make my kids better people.
Jeffy McJeffersonUh-huh. I don't even know if I'm going to comment because I still want to wait to hear what Rickor says, even after this. But Ohio. Ohio. Ohio. Ohio.
KristaRhymes with jail.
RickerSeriously close to jail. That's got nothing. You know what? I I'm not going to put this on Ohio. This is just stupid parenting. Just absolutely stupid.
RayetteStupid parenting 101.
RickerYeah. This is you don't do that. I'm putting it on Ohio. No, I can't. You know what? If she got away with it, then I'd put it on Ohio.
RayetteWhat if she went to Ohio State?
RickerOh. Oh, then I'd have to freaking. Yeah, then I'd have to. Okay. I wouldn't have a two. Or like Ohio. She was a host. Or like the car. Oh, if she's an Ohio State.
RayetteShe had an Ohio State sticker on her car. She was probably Ohio State. Found the getaway car.
RickerYeah. Well, was it in Columbus?
RayetteNo. Yeah.
RickerWe don't know.
RayetteMiddleton. Middletown.
Jeffy McJeffersonClose enough. I don't even know where it's at.
RickerI'll have to ask my friend that lives or that's from Did Did I that's another story. Never mind.
RayetteWe have lots of other stories for you.
RickerYeah, I know. I know.
RayetteThis is lots of Well, we're winding down here, so Okay. A Molotov Molotov Cock. Molotov cock and bull story. That's what this is.
Jeffy McJeffersonCock and bulls.
RayetteFollowing a dispute, Craig Aylesworth of Blithlow, Florida, allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor's trailer home just as the winds shifted, sending Embers to his own trailer. Luckily, he was arrested since he no longer had a home to return to.
RickerThat's a double dumbass. I'm going to commit a felony, but I'm going to burn my own joint down. Yay me. In Florida. Almost classic. I mean, geez. Number one, the firefighters are going to laugh at your ass. Oh, yeah. And when you have, we know how much we love firefighters. Right. You know, them laughing at us is going to be great. And then on top of it, you're going to have every freaking cop that arrests you going, good job, Sonny. Yeah. Nice work, stupid. What are you going to do for an encore? Gotta be kidding me.
Jeffy McJeffersonI wish I'd seen that video. If there was a video. If there's a video.
RayetteThat'd be a great TikTok.
Jeffy McJeffersonPlease, if there's a video of this guy, and what's his name? Uh stupid.
RayetteCraig Aylesworth.
Jeffy McJeffersonCraig Aylesworth. Dummy. Yeah.
RayetteLet's see that TikTok.
Jeffy McJeffersonLet's see that. Yeah. Come on, man. We gotta have that.
RayetteIt's gotta be out there.
RickerThere's a whole thing about Florida men and freaking stupid crimes. Man. And this just kind of seems like Yeah.
RayetteThere's a lot of Florida. And Ohio on this list.
Speaker 2Yeah.
RayetteAnd Texas.
Speaker 2Buckeys. Buckeyes. Excuse me.
RayetteA San Francisco thief peddled his bike up to a woman on the sidewalk, snatched her iPhone out of her hands, and rode away. Unknown to him, the woman was in the middle of demonstrating the iPhone's new GPS tracking device, which worked. The thief was captured minutes later.
Jeffy McJeffersonHope he got his ass kicked.
RickerYeah, it'd be you know, it'd be hilarious if he got his. Ass kicked prior to the police showing up.
Jeffy McJeffersonI hope he got his ass kicked by the woman.
RickerThat's what I'm saying. You know, that she found him, beat his ass, and then called called the police and said, This is where he's at. With the iPhone. Yeah, with the iPhone. You know, leave it in his hands, but let him, you know. Yeah. I think that's perfect.
RayetteAnthony Kenneth was impersonating a police officer.
Speaker 1Always a bad sign.
RayetteWell, I'll be truthful. He has a really long last name that I'm not going to try to say.
Speaker 1Okay.
RayetteAnthony Kenneth was impersonating a police officer when he pulled over another car for speeding. The driver quickly sussed out that Kenneth was fibbing since he too was a cop. But in his case, the kind of cop who doesn't have to pretend he's a cop because he really is a cop. Kenneth was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
RickerOkay. So he got busted for impersoning a impersonating a police officer.
RayetteWho pulled over a police officer?
RickerPulled over an undercover. But an undercover cop, basically.
RayetteYeah. He doesn't have to pretend he's a cop.
RickerHe doesn't have to pretend he's actually a cop, but he's undercover. So this guy just happened to have really, really shitty fucking love.
Jeffy McJeffersonAgain, I would love to see the video of this video.
RickerOh yeah.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah.
RickerUh and how far do you let him get?
RayetteLike.
RickerOh, you gotta let him get a little bit. You gotta let him go a little bit, right? Yeah, exactly. Come on, yeah. Great. Yeah.
RayetteYeah.
RickerYou gotta you gotta play stupid and say, oh, I don't know what I did wrong, officer.
RayetteYeah.
RickerOh yeah.
RayetteI feel like you do too.
RickerYeah. You you just gotta get deep enough into it and then go, Yeah, that looks like a badge in my hand. I don't I don't know what to tell. Uh I think you're under arrest, dude. I think you got this backwards.
RayetteHow convenient. Only a few months earlier, a man from Iowa City, Iowa had his driver's license stolen. Then who would show up at a bar where he worked as a bouncer? But the thief brandishing the bounter bouncer's very own license as his form of iPhone.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's an ass beaten. Oh, yeah.
RayetteThat bouncer done took that dot. That's an ass beat. No, he did.
Jeffy McJeffersonOh yeah.
RayetteYou know he did.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's a fucking ass beating.
RayetteLet me beat the shit out of you. Then I'll call the thing.
Jeffy McJeffersonAnd then I'll call the cops. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. That's an easy one. I guarantee you that this guy seen the ID and go, okay, come on in. And then just kick the ever-loving shit out of him. Oh no, no.
RickerHe didn't kick the ever-loving shit. Him and every other bouncer in that joint kick the snot out of this. No, no, there's no way.
Jeffy McJeffersonBecause every other bouncer is going to go, dude, it's yours. Kick the fuck out of this guy.
RickerI think you'd get everybody, but they would just kick the living snot out of him.
Jeffy McJeffersonBecause the the dude that, you know, no way. Because this guy's going to kick his ass so bad that there's going to be nothing left for the other fuckers. No way. I don't know about that. He might beat the hell out of everybody that's going to try to stop him from beating the hell out of him. Just to try to get in get their shots in. Anyways. Okay.
RickerI'm digressing again.
RayetteIs there no honor among thieves? While two suspects were being questioned in Ogden, Utah, police about shofting shoplifting from a store, someone broke into their car and stole the stereo and several other items. Into the shoplifter's car.
Jeffy McJeffersonReally?
RayetteAnd stole their radio, their stereo and several other items.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's freaking awesome.
RickerShit happens. That's a dumbass squared number right there. Not really. No.
RayetteAll right. Last one. An El Paso, Texas man busted into a church and absconded with the safe. Safes are heavy, so he only got a few yards before dropping it on a neighbor's lawn where he tried to crack it open. That's when he c was confronted by the homeowner's occupant, a police officer.
RickerWhere in Texas was this?
RayetteEl Paso.
RickerAsshole from El Paso. So that's good thinking. Yeah. That would be that's right up there.
Jeffy McJeffersonThat's right up there with people who like freaking uh chain a freaking ATM and try to Right, try and pull it out and then yeah.
RickerYeah.
KristaYeah, exactly.
RickerGood luck. There's only there's only six cameras and freaking yeah. Go for it, dude. Yeah. Yeah. That that you know, some some of these criminals, it it's not just stupidity, it's nuclear stupidity. They are they are so freaking stupid it it defies gravity. You you can't you you can't you you really can't freaking say anything. It's so dumb it explains itself.
RayetteAgreed.
Jeffy McJeffersonWell, thanks for it for bailing me out on this one. I had a price bill. It was kind of interesting. This actually was kind of funny.
RickerThe topic's perfect for it. Yeah. I mean, if you're gonna do a humorous topic, this is the one.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah. Because I was like thinking other shit last night and I was like, oh god, that's yeah, you screwed up.
RickerYou screwed up, but that's okay. We we expect it out of you. Sorry. Right. Sorry, Jeffy.
Speaker 1I didn't mean that.
RayetteYes, you did.
Jeffy McJeffersonYeah, yeah, I did. I am freaking great at what I do, but not this time.
unknownOkay.
Jeffy McJeffersonBailed me out. Yes, you did. It's all good. She she bailed all of us. Thank you, baby. Baby.
RayetteBaby. Bebe. Baby.
Jeffy McJeffersonYou know what? This has been fun. I thought that was excellent.
RickerYeah, it was hilarious. Puts a light on some of the stuff. And it's always about other people doing stupid things. That's a freaking easy one. We're out.
RayetteWe're out.
Jeffy McJeffersonI love dumb asses. Dumbasses help the double.
RickerYou can't even freaking dumb. It it does.










