Are people really this stupid?

[EchetusXe]

The world is made up of 99.9% idiots and 0.1% geniuses. Some idiots are just so spectacularly moronic that they make the rest of us look good by comparison.

 

[Nickompoop]

Yup!

However, you ignore the flip side of this: people are surprisingly stupid about securing their property. Here's an experiment--go to a large, full parking lot and try to open some car doors. A surprising amount of them will be unlocked. That number increases dramatically if you do this in a neighborhood.

People leave their valuables out in the open all the time, which is probably what your sister did. It's incredibly easy to steal stuff, you just have to think about it.

You're right there was one point is my life where I was into petty thief. It was crazy easy, it's almost sad that in middle school I nabbed over $200 from backpacks one day while they owners where waiting for their buses to come.

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Those are the idiots that make the Thieves Guild very sad pandas.

Perhaps I should clarify my point--I do not advocate theft, petty or otherwise. Especially if you just do it for fun and you don't actually need whatever you stole.

 

[Rin Little]

You kidding me? I heard a story about a robber who was trying to steal money out of the cash register at a gas station. The teller said that he needed to make a sale to open the drawer so the robber said to get him a bottle of Jack Daniels. The teller said he needed to see ID in order to sell it to him. The robber forked over his ID and took the cash. He leaves and then the teller calls the cops and gives him the name and address of the robber...

Yes people are that stupid.

 

[Flying6LeggedWhale]

I applaud them and their ever so great dedication to trolling.

 

[Right Hook]

My sisters Blackberry was recently stolen, and the petty criminal used it to put a vulgar, retarded message up on her Facebook wall only a few hours later...

That means that the phone is still turned on, and sending out a signal, which means that the cell company knows where it is, which means they're just walking around with stolen property that's literally leaving a trail for the police to follow.

They obviously didn't steal it for the cash, because if they did it would be pawned off to some shmuck already, or at least turned off, so they're doing it for shits and giggles, which makes even less sense because there's no payoff at all... unless you count being beaten to within an inch of your life by a VERY angry woman and her friends a payoff...

Now, it IS only a phone, so it's not like the Fifth Infantry Division will be mobilized to find it, but seriously, are people (Petty criminals, more accurately) so BLOODY STUPID these days that they don't even know to either turn off, or get rid of, whatever it is they stole if it's TELLING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE??

Either that or they are baiting you guys and you are gonna walk into a death trap, watch out.