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Home Depot Imposter Steals Air Conditioners

By Teddy P

May 26, 2017

This week's perp derp struggled with an identity crisis while committing a chilling robbery. Let me explain… Bernardo Calana, 53, suited up in Home Depot armor—aka an orange apron—and posed as a faithful employee in order to steal a couple of air conditioners from a store in New Hampshire. According to the New York Post,…

Shoplifter Falls Short After Robbery

By Teddy P

May 19, 2017

Having a good getaway plan is one of the cornerstones of any good heist. Sadly, this week’s perp derp stumbled at this task in a spectacular fail. According to NY Daily News, a woman who tried to flee from a Walmart in Canada with a shopping cart full of loot tripped herself up by face-planting into…

Fraud Case Leaves Woman Smacking Her Own Head

By Teddy P

May 12, 2017

Imagine you are at work, minding your own business, when all of a sudden a metal sprinkler head falls on your desk. What do you do? Most people would thank whatever god they believed in that it did not land on their head. But for one perp derp, she chose to smack herself on the…

Flower Thief Steals from Cemetery

By Teddy P

May 5, 2017

Criminals are considered bad people, but some go beyond that label and enter the realm of down-right sleazy losers.  According to NJ.com, a florist has been caught stealing flowers from a cemetery in the dead of night. Riverdale, NJ, resident Lynda S. Wingate was caught removing plants from graves and tombstones and gently placing them…

Bad Penmanship Almost Foils Robbery

By Teddy P

April 28, 2017

This week's tale might be further evidence that penmanship is a dying art these days thanks to computers and smartphones. Let me explain: According to KRON, a man's sloppy handwriting almost put the kibosh on the robbery he was attempting to pull off. Apparently, the man walked into a Family Dollar store and slid a…

Home Invader Cooks Himself Chicken

By Teddy P

April 21, 2017

Would you mind coming home to a fully cooked chicken dinner? Would you feel the same if the person who cooked it was a bugler who broke into your house? Enter this week's perp derp… According to FOX, a Florida woman returned home to find a strange man in her home frying up some succulent…

Phone Thief Runs Directly Into Police

By Teddy P

April 14, 2017

Instant karma and instant regret all in about 15 seconds—this was the fate of the perp derp in this installment of Just Plain Stupid.  According to UPI, a street thief in China who snatched a woman’s phone was captured only seconds after the cellphone jacking when the man realized his getaway route ran him right into…

True crime related stories

Polite Package Thief, Throwing Donuts, and more: The Bullet List

By Teddy P

April 8, 2017

These are some of the more interesting, weird, and crazy true crime related stories from the past week (04/01/17 – 04/08/17): Man sues Dunkin' Donuts after asking for real butter, getting a substitute Man in 'Drunk Lives Matter' T-shirt charged with DUI Man posing as crew member busted at JFK Airport with $85K worth of…

Thieves Busted After Driving Stolen SUV to Courthouse

By Teddy P

April 7, 2017

Criminals are often classified as not having good common sense. Well, it's clear that this week's perp derps have no common sense at all. According to KRQE,  the pair of car thieves found themselves arrested after the LoJack system in the stolen SUV they were driving alerted police to their location. Here is the kicker:…

Man Faces Charges After Eating Pancakes

By Teddy P

March 31, 2017

Pancakes. I eat them at least once a week. I love them. It turns out this week's perp derp shares my love for the breakfast cake that is shaped like a pan, and he does not care where he consumes them. According to News 4, a Florida man was charged with traffic obstruction after he…

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