The Lure of The Digital Camera

In this case, the lure of the immediate gratification of the digital camera was

just too much. And it made me laugh.

 

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http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6240329&nav=0s3d

 

Photos Incriminate Lake Austin Burglary Suspects

 

March 16, 2007 11:36 PM

 

Last month, a string of rental cabins were broken into, and more than $5,000 of

property was stolen along Lake Austin.

 

Solving the crime may be relatively easy, because the alleged criminals left a

key piece of evidence at the crime scene that's better than a fingerprint,

perhaps making this one of the easiest cases to solve.

 

Nine suspected burglars ransacked the special-events cabins on Lake Austin, and

they left behind a digital camera with pictures taken that night.

 

"The pictures actually show these people inside the cabins and around the

cabins, so we know the camera was used during their escapade," said Roger Wade

of the Travis County Sheriff's Office.

 

Cabins were pried open, vandalized and more than $5,000 worth of fine liquors

and catering equipment was stolen.

 

The owner of the property is video game mogul Richard Garriott.

 

"Not only did they consume as much as they could on the premises, based on the

photographs, but then they also clearly had backpacks that you can see in the

pictures plus they stole a variety of things like rolling ice chests in order to

basically clean the whole thing out," said Garriott.

 

Police said you'd be wrong to think the pictures don't prove anything, because

they could have been taken anywhere. But the property that was broken into can

clearly be seen, and the pictures put those people right at the scene of the crime.

 

"Even a fingerprint doesn't necessarily lead you very far, unless you happen to

have a picture of the person," Wade said. "Not only a picture, but a picture of

them doing it."

 

In the picture three of the partiers are seen hamming it up for the camera.

Police said their next pose might be for the mug shot.

 

"To say they're stupid criminals, they're stupid for doing the crime in the

first place, but, yeah, it's a big mistake," Wade said.

 

If you have any information, please call Crime Stoppers at 472-8477.

 

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Sounds like these guys are prime candidates for <a href="http://www.darwinawards.com/">The Darwin Awards</a> even though they're usually given only to "Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it"

 

I guess they probably will be in jail for quite a while which is close enough. ;-)

Hope the go to jail before they have a chance to multiply. Darwin called this natural selection.

They must be the cousins of the clowns I heard about this morning on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," who stole a bunch of police radios and then used them to brag about their exploits and announce where they were going to meet to celebrate!

Same way that Bonnie and Clyde were caught is that they took photo's of themselves and during a shoot out with cops left the camera behind. All of a sudden everyone knew what they looked like didn't take long after that for someone to turn them in.

We call 'em Utards

 

 

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