To break the law with your freedom intact, you need to be either smart, intimidating, or lucky.

But some miscreants don't match any of those criteria.

Some criminals are so incredibly dumb that they end up doing the hard work for the police,

making their arrest not only simple, but inevitable.

From robbers who accidentally called the cops on themselves to California's

Phantom Pooper, let's explore some embarrassingly dumb people who don't want their freedom.

When a Missouri comic book store had 3,000 comics stolen from a storage unit, the owner was devastated.

He sent a message around asking local stores to notify him if anyone attempted to cash in on them.

You can imagine his surprise then when they all showed up one day at his store

accompanied by the woman who stole them. The less than genius thief was attempting to sell the

comics to the very store she had stolen them from, despite the boxes having the owner's details

and signature. With the help of the police, the criminal was caught

and the comics were returned to their rightful owner. With a failure of this level, perhaps

they should have tried to steal a brain instead. Now, two Florida burglars probably thought

they were very clever indeed when they had the bright idea to use a blow torch to break into an ATM.

But the reason welding gear isn't standard equipment for ATM robbers became very clear, very quickly.

Instead of providing access to the cache, the burning heat welded the ATMs hinges shut.

Robbers left with nothing, but the whole event was caught on CCTV and images of

the embarrassing escapade were shared with the world by the Okalusa County Sheriff's Office. In 2018,

three British teenagers aged between 16 and 19 were jailed after an attempted burglary, went

hilariously wrong.

After receiving reports that four teens had been acting suspiciously outside a house in Lighten Buzzard, England, police arrived on the scene.

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