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Brilliant Criminals

Stupid Sports Quotes
• Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
• Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books: "But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."

“Brilliant” Criminal
• A man was arrested at a hotel in Wichita, Kansas, for trying to pass counterfeit currency. What set this crime apart from other counterfeit schemes was the fact that the confused man was attempting to use freshly painted sixteen-dollar bills
• An "Einstein protégé" had been casing a Boston bank for several days, waiting for just the right moment to commit robbery. He went through the customer line, and approached the teller's window, he produced a handgun and announced in a very loudly "THIS IS A HOLDUP, NOBODY MOVE!" Much to his dismay, the next five customers were armed FBI agents on their lunch breaks, attempting to cash their checks. The man quickly surrendered with no shots fired. His "genius" casing job had failed to notice the FBI Field Office two doors down.


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