When did you get to watch a dumb criminal set themselves up for failure?

Someone stole my credit card and bought an iPad, but had it shipped to my house.

I'm guessing they accidentally went with the default shipped to billing address option.

The kicker is they actually called me, pretending to be a best-buy employee,

and said they'd shipped a package in error and I should leave it outside for

UPS to pick up.

Luckily, I noticed the charge on my credit card and was able to return the iPad for a full

refund.

I gave the phone number to the cops.

A friend of mine had his backpack with his $1,400 engineering laptop in it stolen,

while at Campus Food Court.

I had a weird gut feeling it would turn up on Craigslist or somewhere similar. Every day for a week I checked Craigslist. Exactly one

week later, I found that laptop. This extremely stupid criminal took a picture of the laptop

screen with my friend's login name. Yeah, very dumb criminal. So I contacted the seller immediately

via email and he responded within 20 minutes. I said I'd like to buy the laptop from him. We agreed

to meet at a nearby parking lot later that day. Next, we called the cops. They agreed to set up

a sting on the thief. One of the officers pretended to be the buyer and approached the

thief. The officer acted as if he was examining the laptop, but was actually looking for the

serial number. Boom, it had a matching number and they arrested that idiot. A week ago, four months

later, the guy was proven guilty and, to my knowledge, was spending a year in prison. Plus, my buddy

finally got his laptop back.

My parents were driving home and saw their second car coming the other way. They turned around,

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