Last week, the Dumb Criminal Award went to a drug dealer whose own home CCTV system provided evidence linking him to the drugs he had in his car's trunk, and this week, we already have a winner for this award.
Early in the running was a man who called the NYPD to let them know he was "ready to kill cops right now." The man provided police his address, encouraging them to come on down to be killed. As you might imagine, the police responded, and the situation turned ugly, with the man wielding a knife at police. He was tasered and when the tasering didn't subdue him and he continued to charge at police, he was shot. And while that seems to be an out-and-out winner of this award, I decided to withdraw this man's entry because the situation seemed so outrageous that I can only speculate that he likely was mentally ill.
Many thanks to Brickhouse Security for tweeting out this outrageous story on Twitter and thereby unknowingly entering this man's alleged actions into the running for the awards. I wonder what he will think of the clothes hanging system in prison, should he be convicted.
Keep them coming folks! And to the criminals: Thanks for making the jobs of security managers and police officers everywhere that much easier!
-Geoff

Geoff Kohl | Editorial Director/Editor-in-Chief/Associate Publisher
Geoff Kohl is the Marketing Director for the Security Industry Association (SIA). He is the former Editor-in-Chief of SecurityInfoWatch.com