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Saturday, June 30th, 2007 • Filed under Theft

ONE OF LIFE’S LITTLE LESSONS #848: If you fail to plan, you fail and you’ll look silly and you’re mother won’t love you anymore and you’ll make God cry.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – A fired restaurant manager was caught trying to crack a company safe after he searched the Internet for tips in the middle of the burglary, authorities said.

Branden M. Tingey, 28, hid late Wednesday in the ceiling of the men’s room at Polidoro Italian Grill until he thought the place was empty, then went to the manager’s office and tried to break into the safe, investigators said.

Apparently stymied, police said Tingey turned to the restaurant’s computer to search for safecracking instructions. The search was interrupted when two managers who had been in another part of the restaurant doing paperwork walked in.

I smell Google’s first chance to start advertising on television.

Of course, the story doesn’t say what he found when he Googled safecracking instructions. So I decided to search the phrase and see what comes up. Turns out it was porno.

Tingey dashed out the backdoor but was apprehended a short time later. Police said he was carrying a weapon, but could not find any shame on him.

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