Drunk Steals Bike, Returns it With Apology Note – Dumb Criminal of the Day

Drunk Steals Bike, Returns it With Apology Note – Dumb Criminal of the Day

Today’s story involves a soft-hearted drunk from Aspen. A guy named Jay Maytin lives in the town and rides his bike all over the place. He had parked said bike outside of his wife’s law office, unlocked, and when he returned the bike was gone. Sad news for him.

The good news is that the bike was returned. Along with an apologetic note signed by “Drunk”.

According to the Aspen Timese, Maytin says he was pretty sure an inebriated bar patron had taken his bike because it didn't have much resale value. And sure enough, a day later the missing bike turned up at the Pitkin County Sheriff's office.

Attached to it was a note that read,

Sorry. I stole this bike. I rode it home. Please give it back - Drunk.

Honestly is the best policy right?

It’s easy to make a stupid decision after a night of drinking, but kudos to this guy for at least trying to make things right. And kudos to the bike owner for being a decent person. Maytin says he doesn’t care who it was that stole his back, he’s just happy to have it back.

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Police, TSAs and drive-thru attendants are generally not the best people to try out practical jokes on. You can end up with spit in your food, miss your flight for a cavity search, or end up in prison. Fortunately for this 15-year-old girl her accidental prank just landed her a little bit of hot water with police.

Authorities in Arkansas tracked down the girl who had sent a text message to an officer the read, “I hid the body ... now what?” It was a prank test gone horribly wrong.

 

According to CNET the girl said she had been inspired by a photo on Pinterest that said,

“When I’m bored, I send a text to a random number saying ‘I hid the body ... now what?’

She was bored. She had a cell phone. You can guess what she did.

She dialed in a random number from to 479-area code and sent the ‘body’ message. Her prank took a turn for the worse because the number she’d picked turned out to be a police detective. When you work on homicide cases, text messages about dead bodies are no laughing matter.

Police traced the text back to the girl’s phone and showed up to question her and her father. They let her off with a warning, but told her she could have been charged with initiating or circulating a false emergency report.

Guess who won’t be sending any text messages for awhile.

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