Today’s winner comes from England.
A man accused of stealing a top brand of coat from a sports shop appeared in front of a judge wearing the item he had shoplifted.
Stephen Kirkbride, 46, arrived in court wearing the £125 [about US $200] Craghopper waterproof, leaving witnesses in court speechless.
Staff called to give evidence for the prosecution recognised the coat as the one he had stolen from the town’s Sports Direct shop when he left it on a chair in the court, and alerted police.
Kirkbride was ordered to surrender the coat when he appeared at South Lakeland Magistrates’ Court, Kendal.
Kirkbride’s defence solicitor Judith Birkett said her client ‘wouldn’t be so stupid’ as to turn up in stolen goods, but Kendal magistrate Jenny Farmer found him guilty of shoplifting.
She dismissed his excuses as ‘completely implausible’.
There’s more at the link.
I think it takes a particular kind of genius to be that dumb!
Peter
Simply awesome.
I thought in England one has the right to be warm.