June 19, 2026

When Crime Fails For Ridiculous Reasons

When Crime Fails For Ridiculous Reasons
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When Crime Fails For Ridiculous Reasons
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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 McJefferson

Well, we'll see how that worked, right?

Rayette

I'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 McJefferson

And welcome to the Almost Famous Radio Podcast. Jeffy McJefferson here, ruling with an iron fist. Iron fist.

Rayette

Yeah, right.

Jeffy McJefferson

No. Today we have Rayette.

Rayette

Hello.

Jeffy McJefferson

The Ricker Oh yeah. Sitting in his mom's. What's up, Mom? There you go. That's all I need to do.

Rayette

She didn't want a mic today.

Jeffy McJefferson

I wonder what Red's drinking today.

Rayette

Give you one guess.

Jeffy McJefferson

I'll give you two.

Rayette

You should have bought stock.

Jeffy McJefferson

Should've bought stock.

Rayette

D B. Little Dutch bros

Ricker

There we go. What is this again? Ninkasi something or other.

Jeffy McJefferson

Red IPA?

Ricker

Red IPA.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. It's good stuff. Juniorzafa and it's kind of like you know, it's from Georgetown. And I love Georgetown. Right.

Rayette

It's a baby Bodie.

Jeffy McJefferson

Kind 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.

Rayette

They watered it down too much.

Jeffy McJefferson

I don't know. Maybe? Or something.

Rayette

It was worth a shot.

Jeffy McJefferson

It's not bad. It was worth a shot.

Ricker

And that was all it gets is one. One shot. One shot. See ya.

Rayette

One shot. We're looking for hop slice. If anybody has hop slice, bring that back.

Jeffy McJefferson

They'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?

Krista

Do it.

Jeffy McJefferson

This is Rayette's a gang.

Rayette

Because I says have such great ideas.

Jeffy McJefferson

Because 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.

Ricker

Well, writers, the same thing. You get up, you just can't freaking function.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, 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.

Rayette

Blows.

Ricker

Yeah, I was gonna I I was I wasn't gonna come back with it.

Jeffy McJefferson

Blows goats, I have proof.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

I mean I mean this of this program. Oh, the program. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you got the program.

Rayette

Now you got it. Now you understand. Now I understand. It's all about the program.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yes. 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.

Ricker

No, 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

Rayette

So we're gonna talk about some dumb criminals today.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Rayette

Because there's some dumb criminals out there. Would you agree?

Ricker

Oh, 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 McJefferson

These aren't smooth criminals.

Rayette

These are not smooth criminals.

Jeffy McJefferson

Alien ant form farm. Yes, thank you. You're welcome. Kind of forgot about who it was. Yeah.

Rayette

Okay. So this one, some police in I'm gonna badger this name. Osing Osining New York?

Ricker

Osining.

Rayette

Ausining?

Ricker

I think so. Okay, that sounds better.

Rayette

Police 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.

Ricker

So he basically ran back home. That's what he did. I'm coming home because I'm stupid. Blake Leek. Yeah, I know.

Rayette

I know. What a nice name, right?

Ricker

That's perfect.

Rayette

Sorry if your last name's Leek.

Ricker

Yeah, I think it is austening because same saying is.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh, you're gonna apologize for the guy's name being leak.

Ricker

I don't think you should apologize for anything this cat does.

Jeffy McJefferson

So that the cops go back and they go, hey man, we uh took a leak. We did take a leak. Yeah.

Ricker

Actually, Leek took himself, basically. Well, true, but I don't say anything. Yeah, we took a leak. We took a leak. Yeah.

Rayette

I guess you could say that.

Ricker

Yeah. 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.

Krista

Right.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

So 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.

Ricker

Well, 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 McJefferson

You'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.

Rayette

Nobody would know.

Ricker

You'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 McJefferson

Nastiness. 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.

Ricker

Yeah, but you've been in dry thunderstorms. I've been in quite a few out here at least.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, you had to take the take the chance. Yeah. So okay, number two.

Ricker

Go ahead.

Rayette

Hang 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 McJefferson

You gotta be kidding me. Can you do that in a Scottish accent though, babe?

Rayette

No.

Jeffy McJefferson

Okay. Just checking. Because I d I I can't. I can I can't do accents like that.

Rayette

No, I can't either.

Ricker

But 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.

Rayette

But then he stole a bottle of liquor, and so they were easy to catch him because they knew who he was.

Ricker

Uh yeah, they did. And they probably had his phone number. Here's my number. Well they did because he Yeah. Right.

Jeffy McJefferson

They did have the phone number, right?

Rayette

Yeah. They got it from the girl that was. The girl, yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

I wonder how hot.

Rayette

Luke probably did not go out with him.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh, 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.

Ricker

I I I think to the you know, the to the stupid criminal part of the story, not that's really immaterial.

Jeffy McJefferson

Man, 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.

Ricker

Yeah, she should be extremely, you know. Yeah. Obviously not. Yeah, I mean, it sh it should be worth it. Okay. Put it this way.

Rayette

Hang on, this keeps messing up.

Ricker

Yeah, because that's okay.

Jeffy McJefferson

We'll still talk about that hot Scottish chick that had a phone number. Is there hot Scottish chicks?

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

Yeah.

Ricker

And she was very good looking.

Jeffy McJefferson

Okay.

Ricker

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, we got that going. Yeah. They got that going.

Ricker

You couldn't understand her because she had that Scottish accent. Scottish I don't even know.

Jeffy McJefferson

Scottish. I don't know.

Rayette

I 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 McJefferson

First 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.

Ricker

Uh 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 McJefferson

You know, and they're like, oh, dude, this is the best fucking coke ever.

Ricker

Wouldn't that be hilarious? It's like you have nothing in your system, stupid. Yeah.

Rayette

Except nothing.

Ricker

Other than dogs. Yeah. You got a little bit of freaking dog hair.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, 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

Rayette

All 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.

Ricker

He left his son at the store.

Rayette

Yep.

Ricker

That'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 McJefferson

Because I I I I don't even know what to say on this one. That's dumbassery. Golly.

Rayette

I know, right? Bring your son to work day.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh, yeah. So you're yeah.

Rayette

So you go rob a place.

Jeffy McJefferson

You're a robber. Okay. Well, I guess that's a yeah. Not a brilliant one.

Rayette

No, definitely not.

Ricker

Not on the, you know.

Jeffy McJefferson

No, Father of the Year categories. Probably not going to happen.

Ricker

This 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 McJefferson

No.

Rayette

No.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. They'll have some stupid show about it. But anyway.

Rayette

All 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.

Ricker

Wow.

Rayette

He had one thing in mind, and that was robbing that till.

Ricker

Right. And he didn't notice the two cops that were standing there.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, he didn't think about the cops.

Ricker

No. 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.

Rayette

He only had one thing in mind, and that was Robin that Till.

Ricker

So he is so super hyper focused that he's dumb to everything around.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, you got to give him credit for that, I guess.

Ricker

Well, you got to give him credit for something, but I don't know if it's anything having to do with brains. No.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, 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 2

I was going to say it's a coffee shop. Probably not.

Ricker

Come 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 McJefferson

If 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.

Rayette

If you're gonna go back.

Ricker

You gotta go big, man. Yeah, that's where the money's at.

Rayette

If you're gonna go, you gotta go big.

Ricker

Yeah. 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 McJefferson

But 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.

Ricker

These guys are stupid. Yeah, that's right. It's just like communism, man. It's just the wrong people trying it.

Jeffy McJefferson

I'll be babyface Nelson, asshole. Okay, go ahead.

Rayette

All 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 McJefferson

That's kind of that's kind of brilliant. Awesome. It's brilliant.

Ricker

Don't look at me, look at him. Yeah. That is pretty good. Except you're both going to jail.

Jeffy McJefferson

It's classic Fresno, though, right?

Ricker

It 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 McJefferson

Yeah, my girl Maria, she lived in Fresno. So and she tells me stories about Fresno all the time. This sounds Fresno all the way.

Ricker

If you told her this, there would be no surprise in her voice. No, she needs to listen to it. Yeah.

Rayette

She 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.

Ricker

And the worst thing, she'd probably go, Well, that's nothing.

Rayette

Yeah, probably.

Ricker

Yeah, we've nothing.

Jeffy McJefferson

We might even get another topic on the show about Fresno.

unknown

Yeah.

Ricker

Yeah, why haven't you had her on? I bet you she could do a f show on stupid criminals just in Fresno.

Rayette

Probably.

unknown

Yeah.

Ricker

Literally.

Jeffy McJefferson

I've tried to get her on, but she's got to come all the way from what, Shady Cove?

Speaker 2

Oh, okay. Well that's 20 minutes. Sorry. Maria, come home.

Rayette

All right.

Speaker 2

Next

Escapes Gone Wrong In Plain Sight

Speaker 2

one.

Rayette

When 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 McJefferson

If you're gonna rob a place.

Rayette

Take a look at the city.

Jeffy McJefferson

Jump into a nudist coming. But yeah, get rid of your but get rid of your clothes.

Rayette

Then you'd blend in.

Jeffy McJefferson

Maybe he had a okay. Maybe he had a teeny weeny.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well. 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?

Rayette

Just a colonnade.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh, okay.

Rayette

I don't know. Doesn't give me specifics.

Ricker

It'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 McJefferson

Yeah.

Ricker

It'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 McJefferson

Well, I guess.

Ricker

You know, he was he was the one clothed and had a two by four on his shoulder. Yeah, which is come on, dumbass.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, which is not even, you know, plain. It's probably, you know, all warped like everything else is from Lowe's.

Rayette

It'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 McJefferson

Stick new Yeah, stick to it and if it's right. I can't say it comes from. I'm from Oklahoma.

Rayette

While the ambulance was on route, the suspect handed a note to the teller demanding all her cash.

Jeffy McJefferson

I'm kind of impressed by him trying to go ahead and just follow through on it. Yeah.

Rayette

He did a good follow through.

Jeffy McJefferson

He did.

Ricker

Well, 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?

Rayette

Is that like the Fresno of California, the Ohio of the Ross?

Ricker

Well, 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 McJefferson

This doesn't work.

Ricker

O H I O shit.

Jeffy McJefferson

I'm in jail. Yeah.

Ricker

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

That's it.

Rayette

What rhymes with jail? Ohio.

Ricker

Close 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 1

Ohio.

Rayette

Well, 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.

Ricker

So he asked for a room at the freaking How can they charge him at the jail highway patrol barracks?

Rayette

Because he drove there.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh Yeah.

Ricker

There's not suspicion of when you're going to be able to do it.

Jeffy McJefferson

He already parked and took out his keys, right?

Ricker

I'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.

Rayette

He didn't even have to pay for it.

Ricker

No, he got a free room. It's probably a $10,000 free room at the end of the whole thing.

Jeffy McJefferson

I 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.

Rayette

But absolutely they have cameras outside the police station.

Ricker

Absolutely. And they got him driving in and getting out of the car and slammed. Yeah, this is an easy one.

Jeffy McJefferson

Whatever his name is?

Rayette

Mike Mitchell.

Jeffy McJefferson

Mitchell. Hey, Mitchell, good try.

Ricker

Yeah. 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.

Rayette

I've seen people hammer pants.

Ricker

We're not gonna name names anymore.

Rayette

I didn't name any names. If y'all are calling out yourself, that's on you.

Ricker

Of course. Nobody's calling out anybody's name. I'll call it myself.

Jeffy McJefferson

And that's that's from going to Mike's.

Ricker

Well, 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.

Rayette

I felt fine.

Ricker

Well, yeah, that's funny. One party ball versus his drinks. Yeah.

Rayette

I know my limits.

Ricker

Yeah, well, there was, yeah, there were limits, and they got thrown out the door. Yeah.

Signed Confessions And Candy Trails

Rayette

So 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 2

Duplicitous. There you go. Duplicitous.

Rayette

He left a note in the safe, borrowed seven million pounds, signed Graham Price. He left an IOU.

Speaker 1

That is awesome. That is awesome. That is really awesome.

Rayette

He just needed a raise to be able to pull up pay it back.

Ricker

Right.

Rayette

That's all he needed.

Ricker

Yeah.

Rayette

Just give him my.

Ricker

I'm borrowing this. It was just a simple phone. It's only seven million pounds. It's a simple loan.

Jeffy McJefferson

And they could have charged him interest on it and stuff like that. No interest because they could have charged him.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

I 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.

unknown

I don't know about that.

Jeffy McJefferson

It'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.

Ricker

We'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?

Rayette

Seven million pounds.

Ricker

Seven 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 McJefferson

That's Wales.

Ricker

No. No, no, no. South Wales. Yeah. South Wales, New South Wales is Australia. Well, either way.

Rayette

I don't know how much it is.

Ricker

Good 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 McJefferson

No, is it New South Wales, you said?

Rayette

It just said South Wales.

Jeffy McJefferson

It 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.

Rayette

Okay. 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.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

No, I think I'm tired of any of these assholes.

Ricker

Yeah, I think I think you can take a break from it. This one, this one gets no defense.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

Yeah. 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 McJefferson

Here's the thing. Nowadays, he probably will win the case, win the case.

Ricker

You 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.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

Wouldn'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.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

And then if that lawyer happened to turn up, you know, as your plant food, well.

Rayette

I like the title of this one. It says Next Time Steal a Milky Way.

Jeffy McJefferson

Uh oh.

Rayette

When 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.

Ricker

First of all, stupid criminal kudos to him for MMs. Watching porn.

Rayette

Watching porn.

Ricker

Oh, okay. Okay. I I I was thinking, you know, stealing the MMs. Okay. Where was the Milky Way on that?

Rayette

I don't know. It just said should a next time steal a Milky Way.

Ricker

You 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 McJefferson

Oh, 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.

Rayette

When 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.

Ricker

Hmm.

Jeffy McJefferson

I don't know if I could defend that guy. I don't.

Ricker

Go 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 McJefferson

I think he I think he's going to get off with it.

Ricker

I 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?

Rayette

Cell phone.

Ricker

On his cell phone. Yeah. Yeah.

Rayette

Who names your own cell phone though?

unknown

Yeah.

Ricker

I mean. A weirdo who's a drug dealer wants everybody to know, I guess.

Rayette

In case you lose it, right.

Ricker

Yeah, please get it. You know, look for drug dealers in the neighborhood and you you'll know you'll find me.

Rayette

I mean, dumb. That's the title of this podcast. Dumb.

Ricker

It kinda is.

Rayette

This 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 McJefferson

Terrible, terrible planning. Terrible planning. That's what the hell? Wouldn't you think you would plan that a little bit better?

Ricker

That that's just going to another line of work.

Jeffy McJefferson

He might have been friends with that guy that tried to get a freaking room at the cop shop.

Ricker

Or 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 McJefferson

Work your plan.

Ricker

Yeah, well.

Rayette

That was not planned.

Ricker

That well, it was not well planned for sure. If it was planned, it was planned by idiots.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah.

Rayette

Hilarious.

Jeffy McJefferson

Think a little bit, Holmes.

Fake Badges And Counterfeit Blunders

Rayette

Well, Aiden Ramirez had it all figured out. He would be a cop without having to take the Aiden Ramirez? Uh-huh.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. That's a freaking stepson.

Rayette

Might be Adon Ramirez. I don't know.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh, okay.

Rayette

Adon 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.

Ricker

Sometimes the best description is none whatsoever.

Jeffy McJefferson

What 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.

Rayette

I'm guessing not free burritos at Chipotle for the rest of his furries. Probably not.

Jeffy McJefferson

I'm guessing that's guessing that's okay. I mean he's he's not gonna have the absolute shit.

Rayette

Or he was sentenced to free burritos at Chipotle for the rest of his life.

Jeffy McJefferson

Great call.

Rayette

You 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 McJefferson

Yeah, your sentence is to eat Chipotle all the time.

Rayette

Either the shits or or salmonella or all that shit that they're gonna do.

Ricker

They're always getting sick. I think I've read them. I'd read them in the news.

Rayette

People are always getting sick there.

Ricker

Well, it yeah, it kind of calmed down, but like for like a two-year run, it was like sick.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

There was something. Yeah. And it was usually salmonella.

Rayette

I've never eaten there in my life.

Ricker

No. No.

Rayette

Have you ever eaten at Chipotle?

Ricker

No, that the whole freaking everybody getting sick all the time. I tried it. Yeah, I'm okay.

Jeffy McJefferson

I tried it and got the uh absolute shits from it. You did? Yeah. Way back in the day. Okay. Well, I guess.

Rayette

It always looks good on TV, too.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh well, hell yeah. They're they got they got the best looking freaking like guacamole and shit like that.

Rayette

Yeah. Could they make it fresh every day, it says.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah.

Rayette

I 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 McJefferson

Wow.

Ricker

That's Augusta. That's where the masters is. Doesn't mean everybody's smart.

Rayette

Well he was making some money to go to the masters, maybe.

Ricker

Well, hell yeah.

Rayette

But he forgot to take him out of the printer. Well, that wasn't the smartest.

Jeffy McJefferson

I've never even thought about, you know, like doing counterfeit shit.

Rayette

But no, there's all those security things on them and stuff.

Jeffy McJefferson

Right.

Rayette

I don't know.

Ricker

It 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 McJefferson

But 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.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

I mean, oh you know, one, you know, good enough.

Rayette

Ones you could take into like a strip joint, though, and just hell yeah.

Ricker

Hell yeah, wash the shit out of that crap right there.

Jeffy McJefferson

Ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching.

Ricker

There you go.

Jeffy McJefferson

That's kind of that's kind of genius, really.

Ricker

Yeah.

unknown

You're right.

Krista

Freaking there you go.

Ricker

Your wife is a freaking criminal, a mastermind. Never gonna be on the stupid criminal list.

Rayette

I'm not on this list, yeah. Yeah.

Ricker

She's she's a smart criminal.

Rayette

I haven't got through the whole list yet, though, so we never know.

Ricker

Yeah, here we go.

Rayette

Well, 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 McJefferson

Man, I would like to meet the dudes that's fucking. I'd love to. I'd love to, man.

Ricker

I 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 McJefferson

Harley's not schwins. That's what I'm saying.

Rayette

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. But these guys, I like to meet the guys. Oh, I would too. Yeah.

Rayette

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

That would be hilarious, man.

Rayette

Yeah. That would have been great.

Ricker

You 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 McJefferson

Yeah.

Ricker

And 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 McJefferson

Let's face it, you fucked up.

Rayette

Because 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 McJefferson

Clothes hamper. Wow. Look at the pun on that shit. There's so many puns, it's unbelievable. Got trapped in a hamper.

Ricker

I 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.

Rayette

Put it under the window, and then you're safe.

Ricker

There you go.

Rayette

Yeah. See.

Ricker

There you go.

Jeffy McJefferson

That's all you gotta do.

Rayette

That's all you gotta do.

Jeffy McJefferson

Okay. Yep.

Bank Heists Fizzle And Weird Assaults

Rayette

Well, 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.

Ricker

You 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 McJefferson

This is my luck on this. This this goat.

Ricker

You'd rob you you'd rob a bank that has tellers with no cash on hand. Yeah.

Krista

Yeah.

Ricker

That 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.

Rayette

I heard they don't have good food.

Ricker

They do.

Rayette

They have good food?

Ricker

I'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.

Rayette

So I'm guessing the service. So let's clear it up for the listeners. Yeah.

Ricker

Not the jail side.

Rayette

Not the jail side. Just clearing that up for everyone. And I don't I I would doubt that.

Ricker

I would doubt that that tri that that works for jail, only prison. Jail food's probably still shitty as a guess. Like county jails.

Krista

Gotcha.

Ricker

Not thinking it's any good.

Jeffy McJefferson

But 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.

Krista

So you got lucky.

Jeffy McJefferson

I guess. And I didn't even do anything, but anyway, go ahead.

Rayette

That's a whole different story.

Jeffy McJefferson

Whole different story.

Rayette

A 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.

Ricker

Good thinking, genius.

Jeffy McJefferson

What the fuck?

Ricker

Yeah. Einstein What's wrong with you, Einstein? Einstein. You're not very bright.

Rayette

Pretty dumb.

Ricker

Yeah. 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 McJefferson

Go 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.

Ricker

This guy just wanted to freaking bait these assholes.

Rayette

Isn't that how BTK got caught too?

Ricker

No.

Jeffy McJefferson

He got caught. We can go into that later.

Rayette

Oh, I know what that was. Never mind.

Ricker

It wasn't it wasn't email.

Rayette

No.

Ricker

But it was still dumb. He was extremely arrogant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was extremely arrogant.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah.

Rayette

Okay, after a man kicked in the door of a Texas home at 3 30 in the morning.

Jeffy McJefferson

First 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.

Ricker

But go ahead.

Rayette

The 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.

Ricker

Must have happened in Austin. Must have been happening in the body. Just because of the fact that nobody shot him in the face.

Jeffy McJefferson

Anywhere else in Texas. Yeah, you're getting shot in the game. This guy would have been shot in the face. Yeah.

Krista

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. 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.

unknown

Yeah.

Rayette

As soon as I heard breaking into Texas at 3 30 in the morning.

Ricker

Idiot. Somebody's getting a freaking slug in their face.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

Well, then you could put him in the bath.

Rayette

Robbie 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.

Ricker

Well, 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.

Rayette

I had no idea that was a good thing.

Ricker

Oh, 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 McJefferson

It is a major how much cheating is in a bass fishing tournament. Yeah. It's huge.

Rayette

I had no idea.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's huge.

Ricker

Yeah, 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 McJefferson

This shit happens way more.

Ricker

Oh man.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah.

Rayette

That 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 McJefferson

Should have been like 50 cents.

Rayette

I got banana in my eye.

Ricker

Oh. This sounds like the banana in the tailpipe thing from All I know is that this motherfucker this bus driver guy.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. 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.

Rayette

All of them.

Jeffy McJefferson

All of them, yeah.

Ricker

All 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.

Rayette

With a full banana.

Ricker

Over 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.

Rayette

They're both kind of dumbass.

Ricker

Yeah, they're both kind of dumb asses. Number one, crying about somebody getting banana in your uniform.

Rayette

Yeah, come on.

Ricker

Just happy. Yeah. It's not like these things are like. And how can you know, obviously, you said something to provoke it.

Rayette

It's not mustard or something that would stain you. Like or even, you know what I mean?

Ricker

Like And and if you had a sense of humor, you'd go.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

You 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 McJefferson

Instead of like turning this bitch in. Yeah, it's like movie about it and get rich.

Krista

Yeah, exactly.

Ricker

I'm the only person to freaking get hit with a banana and live to tell about it. Yeah, TikTok. Yeah.

Rayette

I mean, seriously. Whatever, yeah. Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. You're gonna be like, hey. Oh, but I got fucked up. Sorry. Yeah.

Tattoos Tell On Murderers

Rayette

Police 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 1

Wow. That's literally awesome.

Jeffy McJefferson

Literally awesome.

Rayette

Hilarious.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. That's about as egotistical fucker as you can find.

Ricker

It'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.

Rayette

I don't know. But it said voice. No, no, no.

Ricker

He 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.

Rayette

Still going still going. Maybe he just thought it would like blend in the rest with a tattoo artist guy, man.

Jeffy McJefferson

I mean, like, come on, dude. Seriously? Maybe. Maybe. Why the fuck did you not go, hey?

Ricker

Well, 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 McJefferson

But 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.

Rayette

Yeah. Four-year-old murder. So we don't know when he got the tattoo.

Ricker

Well, I would assume. Well, yeah, sometime in between. So it could have been.

Jeffy McJefferson

But 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.

unknown

Yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Tattoo artist. Step up, man. Be better.

Rayette

James 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.

Ricker

Put Abe Lincoln in the center instead of Ben Franklin on a $100 bill.

Rayette

Yep.

Jeffy McJefferson

What was the guy's name?

Rayette

James Ryan.

Ricker

Genius 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.

unknown

Oh man.

Ricker

Now, 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 McJefferson

Dude, he could he could have got a bitching ass lap dance for that shit. Yeah. Idiot. Go ahead.

Rayette

A 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 McJefferson

That's a pretty good GPS.

Ricker

So 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 McJefferson

Yeah. Well, you had to be fucked up again.

Ricker

No, that's the pro It's on the way to getting fucked up.

Jeffy McJefferson

No, 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.

Ricker

Yeah, 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.

Rayette

The 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.

Ricker

Good thinking.

Jeffy McJefferson

Bad call. Bad call. Very bad. That would be an oopsie.

Ricker

See 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?

Rayette

Well, no, because missing cousins.

Ricker

It'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.

Rayette

Like, isn't there isn't that like a pretty common language up there?

Ricker

But Calgary is kind of I don't know.

Rayette

I've never been there. I don't know where the West are up there.

Ricker

It'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 McJefferson

Well, anyway, she got fucked.

Ricker

Because she made an assumption that was incorrect. Right. A very big assumption.

Rayette

Well, Christopher Oxley of Everett, Washington was arrested for conducting a drug deal over the phone in the bathroom of the Everett Police Department.

Ricker

Well 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 McJefferson

Well, you know what to happen.

Rayette

Yeah, I don't know. These don't have like dates or anything.

Ricker

But I don't I don't I don't know if they actually arrest people in one of the people.

Jeffy McJefferson

Would you conduct a drug deal, man, when you're in the fucking police department?

Ricker

Well, maybe he did it twelve times before and never got arrested.

Rayette

Maybe.

Ricker

That's the thing. Well he got up there. He got caught, yeah. Yeah. I just uh uh spending.

Rayette

But what was he doing there in the first place? He was because it doesn't sound like a lot of people.

Ricker

I could tell you stories about going to police stations and you'd probably go, How are you still among us? But yeah. Yeah.

Rayette

A 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 McJefferson

Really? Well, first off, did Blackberry and iPhones cross paths anytime?

Rayette

That's a great question because Blackberries are pretty old, right? Yeah, blackberries are real old.

Ricker

Yeah.

Rayette

Maybe at the very beginning.

Ricker

Because 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 McJefferson

Well 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.

Rayette

I don't know.

Jeffy McJefferson

But 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.

Rayette

Clive 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 McJefferson

This reeks of fucking myth. Or or some kind of stupidity.

Ricker

Well, 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 McJefferson

The guy's name's Clive. Clive. And you're thinking maybe it's not like from the case.

Rayette

What's wrong with the parents that name their kid Clive?

Ricker

Well, Clive I think Clive's a traditional British name.

Rayette

Oh, is it? Yeah, it's a good one. Okay, that wouldn't make sense, I guess.

Ricker

Well, if he would have But it sounds it may be a traditional criminal British name. I don't know. Clive. Clive.

Jeffy McJefferson

You know, but who knows? That is a fucking dumb name anyway. Yeah.

Rayette

Sorry if your name is Clive.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. I don't know. I'm not sorry. If your name's Clive, fuck you.

Ricker

Well, no, if your name's Clive. Don't don't commit stupid crimes and we won't make fun of you.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, 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.

Rayette

Don'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 1

Wait a second. Do that one again. Wait.

Rayette

You'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 McJefferson

You know, unbelievable.

Rayette

He did not take it to his grave.

Jeffy McJefferson

The 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.

Ricker

You make a confession between you and your maker in your head. I'm just saying. I hear you there is and you're wrong.

Rayette

Yeah, but then if you live, then now you're getting a divorce and you've lost everything.

Jeffy McJefferson

But I'm saying that you might as well be dead. I'm just going with the lesser of two evils. That's all.

Rayette

Is it the lesser of two evils?

Ricker

I don't I think it's evil either way.

Rayette

And you would you rather have a pissed off wife?

Ricker

No, no.

Rayette

Or go to jail.

Ricker

Pissed off wife. I think I think the prison sounds like an easier road to freaking hoe.

Rayette

And a wife that's been scorned.

Ricker

Yeah, yeah. I think you I think you need to rethink. I get what you're saying. I'm just saying.

Rayette

Remember, I dug a hole in the backyard and burned every thing that my ex had.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, but I didn't fuck around.

Ricker

I thought you were gonna say you burn you you dug a hole in in, you know, waiting for his ultimate demise.

Rayette

I take a shovel out every day out there.

Ricker

Well, that's what happens. He died of natural causes, so don't worry about it.

Rayette

I've almost got a swimming pool made.

Ricker

No, not this one.

Jeffy McJefferson

He doesn't count. I tried to help you, but couldn't do it. Gay with the old college try.

Rayette

Oh, Ricker will like this one.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, of course.

Florida Chaos And Final Faceplants

Rayette

Callie 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.

Ricker

You can't make this shit up. I'm stealing, but I'm stealing to make my kids better people.

Jeffy McJefferson

Uh-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.

Krista

Rhymes with jail.

Ricker

Seriously 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.

Rayette

Stupid parenting 101.

Ricker

Yeah. 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.

Rayette

What if she went to Ohio State?

Ricker

Oh. 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.

Rayette

She had an Ohio State sticker on her car. She was probably Ohio State. Found the getaway car.

Ricker

Yeah. Well, was it in Columbus?

Rayette

No. Yeah.

Ricker

We don't know.

Rayette

Middleton. Middletown.

Jeffy McJefferson

Close enough. I don't even know where it's at.

Ricker

I'll have to ask my friend that lives or that's from Did Did I that's another story. Never mind.

Rayette

We have lots of other stories for you.

Ricker

Yeah, I know. I know.

Rayette

This 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 McJefferson

Cock and bulls.

Rayette

Following 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.

Ricker

That'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 McJefferson

I wish I'd seen that video. If there was a video. If there's a video.

Rayette

That'd be a great TikTok.

Jeffy McJefferson

Please, if there's a video of this guy, and what's his name? Uh stupid.

Rayette

Craig Aylesworth.

Jeffy McJefferson

Craig Aylesworth. Dummy. Yeah.

Rayette

Let's see that TikTok.

Jeffy McJefferson

Let's see that. Yeah. Come on, man. We gotta have that.

Rayette

It's gotta be out there.

Ricker

There's a whole thing about Florida men and freaking stupid crimes. Man. And this just kind of seems like Yeah.

Rayette

There's a lot of Florida. And Ohio on this list.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Rayette

And Texas.

Speaker 2

Buckeys. Buckeyes. Excuse me.

Rayette

A 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 McJefferson

Hope he got his ass kicked.

Ricker

Yeah, it'd be you know, it'd be hilarious if he got his. Ass kicked prior to the police showing up.

Jeffy McJefferson

I hope he got his ass kicked by the woman.

Ricker

That'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.

Rayette

Anthony Kenneth was impersonating a police officer.

Speaker 1

Always a bad sign.

Rayette

Well, I'll be truthful. He has a really long last name that I'm not going to try to say.

Speaker 1

Okay.

Rayette

Anthony 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.

Ricker

Okay. So he got busted for impersoning a impersonating a police officer.

Rayette

Who pulled over a police officer?

Ricker

Pulled over an undercover. But an undercover cop, basically.

Rayette

Yeah. He doesn't have to pretend he's a cop.

Ricker

He 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 McJefferson

Again, I would love to see the video of this video.

Ricker

Oh yeah.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah.

Ricker

Uh and how far do you let him get?

Rayette

Like.

Ricker

Oh, you gotta let him get a little bit. You gotta let him go a little bit, right? Yeah, exactly. Come on, yeah. Great. Yeah.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

You gotta you gotta play stupid and say, oh, I don't know what I did wrong, officer.

Rayette

Yeah.

Ricker

Oh yeah.

Rayette

I feel like you do too.

Ricker

Yeah. 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.

Rayette

How 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 McJefferson

That's an ass beaten. Oh, yeah.

Rayette

That bouncer done took that dot. That's an ass beat. No, he did.

Jeffy McJefferson

Oh yeah.

Rayette

You know he did.

Jeffy McJefferson

That's a fucking ass beating.

Rayette

Let me beat the shit out of you. Then I'll call the thing.

Jeffy McJefferson

And 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.

Ricker

He 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 McJefferson

Because every other bouncer is going to go, dude, it's yours. Kick the fuck out of this guy.

Ricker

I think you'd get everybody, but they would just kick the living snot out of him.

Jeffy McJefferson

Because 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.

Ricker

I'm digressing again.

Rayette

Is 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 McJefferson

Really?

Rayette

And stole their radio, their stereo and several other items.

Jeffy McJefferson

That's freaking awesome.

Ricker

Shit happens. That's a dumbass squared number right there. Not really. No.

Rayette

All 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.

Ricker

Where in Texas was this?

Rayette

El Paso.

Ricker

Asshole from El Paso. So that's good thinking. Yeah. That would be that's right up there.

Jeffy McJefferson

That'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.

Ricker

Yeah.

Krista

Yeah, exactly.

Ricker

Good 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.

Rayette

Agreed.

Jeffy McJefferson

Well, 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.

Ricker

The topic's perfect for it. Yeah. I mean, if you're gonna do a humorous topic, this is the one.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah. Because I was like thinking other shit last night and I was like, oh god, that's yeah, you screwed up.

Ricker

You screwed up, but that's okay. We we expect it out of you. Sorry. Right. Sorry, Jeffy.

Speaker 1

I didn't mean that.

Rayette

Yes, you did.

Jeffy McJefferson

Yeah, yeah, I did. I am freaking great at what I do, but not this time.

unknown

Okay.

Jeffy McJefferson

Bailed me out. Yes, you did. It's all good. She she bailed all of us. Thank you, baby. Baby.

Rayette

Baby. Bebe. Baby.

Jeffy McJefferson

You know what? This has been fun. I thought that was excellent.

Ricker

Yeah, 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.

Rayette

We're out.

Jeffy McJefferson

I love dumb asses. Dumbasses help the double.

Ricker

You can't even freaking dumb. It it does.