Not so smart criminals

Without trying to be too judgmental I sometimes wonder if criminals become criminals just because they aren’t that very smart.

In northwest England an 18-year-old burglar scrawled his name in graffiti before leaving the scene.

"Peter Addison was here!" wrote the 18-year-old in black marker pen on a wall after the drunken burglary with an accomplice in August in which they smashed crockery and let off fire extinguishers.

Just in case that was not enough for detectives, he added his gang's name daubed on the wall: "The Adlington Massiv!" He also added "R Gay" to a poster saying "Garden Birds of Britain."

Smart move!

In Colombia a man armed with a gun tried to rob a karate school.

"The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate the dozens of students, who fortunately reacted and disarmed him," said Colonel Julio Cesar Santoyo, police commander in the province of Santander.

Maybe not the smartest thing to do.