Our first Doofus award of 2010 goes to an unnamed Sicilian man.
A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year’s Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported on Friday.
The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station on Thursday asking to be arrested because he preferred spending the night in prison rather than with his family, but was rebuffed because he had not committed a crime, the Agi news agency said.
The man immediately went to a tobacco shop next door, where he threatened the owner with a box cutter as he grabbed a few sweets and a packet of gum. He then waited until police arrived to arrest him for robbery, the news agency said.
Well . . . it may have been a Doofus-ish thing to do . . . but what does it say about the man’s wife and family??? If he was desperate enough to commit a crime in order to go to jail so as to avoid their company, that’s got to be one nightmare of a relationship! Perhaps a divorce might be more in order than a crime?
Peter
If he was really that smart, he'd have framed them so they could have a night in the big house.
Wait, that was my outside voice again, wasn't it?
Jim
Not in Sicily Peter, he would just 'disappear'… there is no divorce down there…