Idiot Number 3 A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into a branch and wrote, "This is a stikup. Put all yur muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give the note to a teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to a Wells Fargo Bank. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed the note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on Bank of America deposit slip and that we would have to rewrite in on a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to the Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in a line back at the Bank of America.

Idiot Number 4 A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the money in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it into the bag as well. The cashier refused and said, "Because I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver's licence out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed the man was over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the licence. They arrested the robber two hours later.