Who was the SMARTEST Criminal You’ve Ever Encountered?
Am I the Genius?
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who was the smartest criminal you've ever encountered? |
| 0:03.8 | I worked with this one guy who had a lengthy record. He had a system for getting released if he got |
| 0:08.7 | caught too. After committing a crime, if the police were in pursuit and he knew he was about |
| 0:13.3 | to be cornered, he'd act insane. His girl would play along with it, telling the police that he |
| 0:18.2 | was off his meds. The police would arrest him, but then |
| 0:20.9 | send him to a mental ward, with papers instructing his ward to release to police custody once he |
| 0:25.9 | was cleared. Once he was in the mental ward, he'd caused a distraction to make the person |
| 0:30.2 | attending the desk with the file cabinet leave, said cabinet. He'd then crawl to the file cabinet, |
| 0:35.6 | look for his release to custody papers, and then would literally eat those. |
| 0:40.6 | When the psych evaluators decided he was stable enough to be released, there'd be no instructions to send him to the cops, and he'd be released to the general public instead. |
| 0:49.4 | He did this about ten times until the cops noticed him back on the streets. |
| 0:53.2 | This stunt forced the state to change |
| 0:55.2 | their procedures for detaining mentally unstable suspects. My favourite was the guy who stole a |
| 1:01.2 | post office mailbox off the street, repainted it, and then put it next to the night deposit |
| 1:06.1 | box at a bank. He hung an out-of-order sign on the deposit box. All the businesses came along and dropped |
| 1:12.0 | off their deposits inside the mailbox. I'm not a cop, but I worked crime scenes. This guy had |
| 1:18.5 | attached a GPS to the bottom of people's cars who owned houses that he wanted to rob. He did it |
| 1:23.2 | to ensure they wouldn't be showing up while he was ransacking the place. I heard about one person that pulled a shoplifting scam on a large, popular and well-known |
| 1:31.8 | US retail store. They walked in with some cheap nylon products to get one of those, |
| 1:36.6 | I walked in with this stickers, that they used on returning merchandise. That sticker easily |
| 1:41.8 | peeled off the product undamaged. They walked to the electronics department, |
| 1:45.8 | grabbed an expensive box off the shelf, and went to customer service. They placed the sticker on the |
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