Back to the daily grind...even for dumb criminals

It would seem even the dumb criminal fraternity is geared towards starting off the new year on a productive note.

Just this week there have been two incidents of crime which have made a strong bid for the 2011 Dumbest Crime/Criminal of the Year Award — award to be presented by M Trapido at a state centre for long-term corrective vacationing.

Earlier this week a disgruntled Filipino car thief shot down his local councillor, a Reynaldo Dagsa, who had ordered his arrest. All good and well (from his perspective) except, he had gunned down Dagsa while he was taking photos of his family. And the killer was facing him at the time. This naturally resulted in the following moment preserved for the Dumb Criminal Hall of Fame.

Not to be outdone, our local criminal elements got in the act too. Three Einsteins from Pretoria decided to show the world just how a criminal masterplan can go horribly, comically wrong. The Three Blind Stooge Amigos, as they shall forever be known, managed to have a three on one captive scenario end with two of them dead, one on the run, and the hijacked vehicle crashed after it had injured one of them. Something of an all-in-one application for Dumb Criminals Anonymous and the Darwin Awards really. For more on the worst hijacking ever, click here.

And understand that they did all of this without any interference from the man driving the vehicle they hijacked. None.

The new year has begun, and it’s business as usual in all respects it seems.