Today’s award goes to Frederick Brantley of Lombard, Illinois, who clearly didn’t think things through before deciding to enter upon a life of crime.
A robber with a distinctive stutter has been arrested after he tried to hold up a Dunkin’ Donuts where he used to work.
Despite wearing a black ski mask, an employee at the store recognised the robber’s voice.
The 25-year-old man with a stutter was armed with a knife when he tried to rob the shop in Lombard, Illinois.
After he had left the shop, the worker called police and gave his name. Suspect Frederick Brantley was then arrested in a car park.
He had about $300 in cash in a white plastic Dunkin’ Donuts bag and a knife in his pocket, police said.
Brantley was charged with armed robbery.
Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks!
Peter
I heard from a guy who was there of a service trial wherein the CO and the Regimental Sergeant-Major both stuttered. On trial was some poor soldier. Who stuttered. It went like this:
CO: “H-h-how-how-how do-d-d-you p-p-p-lead?”
Accused: “N-n-n-n-o-t not not g-g-g-uilt-t-t-y s-s-s-sir.”
CO, to the RSM: “S-s-s-s-ser-ge-ge-ge-ant m-m-m-m-ma-j-j-or, is h-h-h-he m-m-m-m-mocking m-m-m-me?”
RSM: “N-n-n-n-no, s-sir.”
Now, I would hate to be a witness to those proceedings, because the temptation to laugh would be very, very hard to resist. Not impossible – I wouldn’t care to join the accused – but difficult. Jim
Dumb and dumber strike again… Nothing like robbing the place you used to work! Hell, they would probably have known the voice even without the stutter!
A serial holdup man was described by a victim as having a gold M in his front tooth. The Police who took the report remembered a former officer who also had the same enlay. So, several officers were waiting at the holdup man’s house when he got home. The officers quickly solved the crime wave.
Sorry, I was unable to locate a link. The story is many years old.