Stupid burglars accept texted ransom offer for stolen cellphone
By Evan Blass 
posted Oct 18th 2006 11:20PM
posted Oct 18th 2006 11:20PM
Sometimes people really do get what's coming to them. Brothers Jared and Cooper Colwell and two other men were sleeping at their home in Midvale, Utah last Tuesday, when a pair of ski-masked crooks busted into the house and demanded everyone's cash, wallets, and cellphones. Sounds like your typical home invasion, except for the fact that Jared thought he recognized one of the burglar's voices -- it sounded like a friend of theirs named Randall Talbot who had previously crashed at their pad for a few weeks. Figuring they had nothing to lose, the men texted Jared's cellphone with a message saying "Randy, I really want my phone back; I'll pay you $300 for the phone right now" (must have been a Treo). If you're stupid enough to rob your friend's house it stands to reason that you might be stupid enough to collect a ransom on the stolen merchandise as well, and sure enough, Randy and his partner-in-crime Justin Brooks agreed to a meeting at the local Smith's store. As you've probably guessed by now, the Colwells immediately called the cops, who were there to greet Randy and Justin as they emerged from behind a dumpster at the rendezvous point -- reportedly poised to grab the $300 and take off. We tip our hat to you, soon-to-incarcerated cellphone thieves: out of the many stupid gadget criminals who have graced these pages, you two are by far the biggest idiots of them all.[Via FARK]
1 stupid for robbing your friends house
2 stupid for stealing a cell phone via you couldnt use it for maybee one call and i no i dont go around buying phones from people other than retail
3 and why would you steel a phone if you already have one and it turns out thats how they got coght by the phone he already had stupid
There are no words to describe that level of stupidity.
Pick Me! Pick Me!
LMAO that is stupid beyond words, I mean really hellllo.
If this were featured on the television show "Cops," it would get the Prime-Time Emmy Award for Stupidity! LOL too funny!
Wow ;) Really stupid, but probably more funny.