A couple of Northern Territory girls are today learning a valuable lesson – if you steal a phone and then use it to call police after you get lost, you will end up getting arrested.
The girls allegedly broke into a car in Katherine in the NT, found the owner’s house keys, which they used to enter his house and steal his car keys, wallet and phone. After an undisclosed period of joyriding the girls crashed the car, and unsure of their location, decided to call police on the stolen phone. They used a tracking application called “Where Are You” to help police find them.
Naturally, the girls were taken into custody.
Let this be a lesson to you kids: Crime doesn’t pay, especially when you call the police yourselves.
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Drew
January 18, 2012 at 1:39 PMDumbest Criminals of 2012?
I know it is early in the year, but that will be difficult to top.
Rhys
January 18, 2012 at 1:55 PMThe year is still young. There are dumber crims in Alice Springs that are yet to shine.
Ozoneocean
January 18, 2012 at 2:01 PMBeing a dumb criminal is a self defining act.
The Chronically stupid steal because they’re chronically stupid… It’s something to do after hanging around all day at a shopping centre in their tracksuit pants.
Antonia
January 18, 2012 at 3:07 PMDoes that makes those beacons of industry on Wall Street that “stole” trillions stupid?
Ozoneocean
January 18, 2012 at 4:49 PMYes and yes again, they are stupid. Dumb as dirt: look what they did to their country’s economy and that of the rest of the world. That downturn and lack of stability hurts everyone’s bottom line, including their own as well as their national pride.
The thing is, what they have in common with the stupid car stealing children here is that they weren’t smart enough or lucky enough to make their money and acquire and material goods the legal way, so they took the easy and stupid option that is open to everyone, but only taken by a thick few.
Roger
January 18, 2012 at 3:43 PMHere you go, a couple of our finest from Perth to trump that http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/teens-caught-robbing-unmarked-police-car/story-e6frg143-1226246221904
Kent
January 18, 2012 at 3:01 PMDerp, so they had a phone with GPS AND a data connection and they still couldn’t manage to find there way home?
Darwin was right as fuck ya’ll
Thruppence
January 18, 2012 at 3:26 PMActually, for a certain section of the community, crime does pay.
So these girls are successfully prosecuted and what then?
I’ll tell you; a ‘slap-on-the-wrist’ and ‘bye-bye and don’t do it again’.
Next time they steal and destroy someone else’s car, they should total themselves too…
josh
January 18, 2012 at 4:24 PMCrime doesnt pay.. especially when you are a flipping moron… calling the cops on the stolen car they just crashed i dont believe it