Some Criminals Just Aren't Smart

I found these news articles amusing, and just had to share them. The first news story is about an 18 year old who broke into a home, and later was caught because on one of the computers inside the home he had logged into, and never logged out of, MySpace. I wonder if a Facebook user would be so forgetful? Though perhaps he didn't remember to log out because he was a little high on drugs--the police did find marijuana on a table inside the home.

The second news story is about another burglar who got caught because he dropped his cell phone in the house he was burglarizing. What I found funny is that this guy realized his mistake, and tried to cover it up by texting his own phone (which by the time he texted it, was in police posession). I guess he thought he could fool the police by texting the phone and demanding its return, as though someone had stolen it. Why was he using the phone inside the home at all? Well, apparently he didn't have a flashlight, and so he was using the phone's display to illuminate the interior of the home.