MELBOURNE, Australia - Two Australian robbers thought they were hauling away a big sack of cash from the Cuckoo Restaurant, but it turned out to be bread rolls.
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During the April Fools Day holdup, Jorgensen grabbed what he believed was a bag with the Cuckoo's daily take of about U.S. $26,000 in cash, but later found it was full of bread rolls, the Victorian County Court heard.
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Judge Roland Williams told the robbers they were a "pair of fools," before sentencing [Donna] Hayes to eight years in prison and [Benjamin] Jorgensen to seven.
Can you just picture how the planning for this heist went?
For the purposes of this re-enactment, the robbers will be played by '70s stoner fiends, Cheech and Chong....
Cheech: C'mon, man, we'll hit up that bakery and get all the bread, man. It's like 25 big ones every day.
Chong: Yeah, man, bread. We need more bread. My sandwich just isn't a sandwich without bread, man. And I make huge sandwiches.
Cheech: No, man, bread. You know? Cash money.
Chong: Oh, bread. Got it, man. But that doesn't explain the mustard in my wallet.
Here's the ironic thing. Hayes, sentenced to eight years in prison, was shot is the ass by Jorgensen, sentenced to seven years. What does that make the moral of the story? Steal a bag of bread rolls and get shot you'll get more prison time than if you steal a bag of bread rolls and shoot someone? Seriously, is a bag of dinner rolls worth seven and eight years in prison?
Don't get me wrong, I definitely think we need to punish criminals, but the punishment also needs to fit the crime. I would think that being shot in the ass and being publicly touted as one of the world's dumbest criminals is punishment a-plenty for Donna Hayes for being an accomplice to the theft of a bag of dinner rolls (valued, I'm sure, at less than $US100).
What was the dumbest thing you ever got caught doing? Was the punishment worth it?
[Author's Note: Okay, so this is pretty much a duplicate of my most recent post at LiveJournal. For the time-being, or until I come up with or until someone suggests something better I'm going to duplicate between the two. I, by no means, expect you to post responses at both places. In fact, where you post your responses will give me a good indication of which blog to maintain. Thanx!!]
2 comments:
Forking someone's lawn in highschool. As absolutely stupid as it sounds, you buy a ton of plastic forks, and stick them in someone's lawn under cover of darkness... if you're clever then a friend follows behind with toilet paper and strings between the forks making an incredible mess to clean up.
the worst thing was having to explain to my friend's mom (I dont think we ever had to tell mine) what it was to fork a lawn...
hey... it wasn't eggs... and there was not one square of pretty pink or blue toilet paper in their hugeomungous trees... just all over the yard for about 6 hours until we were taken by Nikki's step-mom and forced to clean it all up.
lol
Ah yes the time-honored tradition of forking a lawn.... followed very closely by spreading pinto and/or kidney beans around the lawn. This is only slighty more insidious, especially if done without doing anything else as it often goes unnoticed that way.
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