Dumb Criminals

The Writing’s on the Wall

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 • Filed under Vandalism

Crimes are always sad, but they’re extra sad when they’re committed by children. It’s like Ray Charles said in “The Blues Brothers,” “It breaks my heart seeing a boy that young going bad.” His heart would have shattered into a million pieces if he read this story and learned some children are going this dumb.

According to the BBC News, an 18-year-old was caught vandalizing a campsite because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene of the crime.

Two friends broke into the campsite and smashed pots and set off fireworks. During the excitement, one of the boys wrote his name on the wall. Police were surprised the boy knew how to write his own name.

He also wrote several messages all over the campsite, but police ran the name they found and up he popped on their computers. He could have done the same amount of damage if he stapled his driver’s license to the wall as well.

Both boys were sentenced to fines, community service and penmanship lessons.

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