I've set a task for myself, here, this week. Some say it can't be done, but I believe it can: I want to post at least one thing that the left and the right can agree on, and come together in glorious consensus.
I may have found it. Can we all agree that if you are a suspect in three murders and you drop your cell phone in a house you're robbing, it's really, really stupid to call the phone in an attempt to get it back?
An East Bay triple-murder suspect left his cell phone behind at the scene of a Pinole burglary and then called it to get it back, unaware that a police officer was on the other end, authorities said today.
Anthony Ramirez, 23, never got his phone. Instead, he is in jail, charged with killing a man in Emeryville and suspected of two other homicides in Contra Costa County, Pinole police Sgt. Matthew Messier said.It all began at about 9:30 p.m. May 22 when a burglar broke into a home on Alice Way in Pinole. The resident interrupted the break-in, and the burglar fled out the window. But he left his cell phone behind.
As Pinole police were scouring the home for evidence, they heard a cell phone ring. Officer Uri Nieves answered it.
"Hey, did you find my phone?" said the voice on the other end.
Nieves acted as if he was "just some guy who picked it up off the street," Messier said. Nieves nailed his role. "He's a very street-savvy officer who actually grew up in a rough neighborhood in Sacramento," Messier said.
Police arranged a meet; the suspect, Anthony Ramirez, showed up at the appointed place to claim the phone only to be surrounded by police cars. Here's where it gets really unbelievable: Ramirez escaped from the police after crashing the stolen car he'd shown up in--and then later, as police from another city (where he was wanted for murder) were closing in, sent a text message to the person holding his cell phone to set up another meet, apparently completely unaware that the police presence at his first arranged meeting location was connected to his attempts to recover his phone!
What do you say, all--have I found something we can wholeheartedly agree on, that this particular criminal suspect's actions were pretty dumb? Or is somebody out there going to make the case for Ramirez, in which case I'll try again tomorrow?
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I'm always frustrated by "security" at airports. It takes a long time, and it seems to me that this "protection" could easily be evaded by intelligent terrorists.
But I have to remember that not all people who are interested in blowing up airplanes are all that bright. In fact, the desire to blow up an airplane while you're on it yourself argues rather the contrary, I'd think. There was some moron some years ago who had a bomb in his shoe....other passengers restrained him, and he is hopefully locked up for good somewhere, but in San Francisco we still have to take off our shoes at security. (Not in Europe; I guess they've got a different brand of moron over there.)
Airport security stops the low-watt-bulb terrorists, of the same "mind"-set as the guy in this story. And that is a good thing.
You don't have to be a genius to blow up airplanes. Burglary too, apparently.
Nobody ever said that the average member of the American criminal class qualified as intelligent life.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
Erin - think you met the challenge - although this one was a bit easy.
BTW - maybe his drug dealers number was in the cell phone - so he just had to get it back!
Funny story.
And yet, sometimes even the criminals amongst us offer opportunities we might not otherwise expect.
In general crime doesn't pay because such dumb people commit it. My favorite is the regularly-recurring story of the rapist who gets caught because he makes a "date" with his victim (apparently thinking she has found him irresistible), who of course tips off the cops to meet him when he shows up. I believe there are two different categories of rape, BTW--violent, dominance rapes, and vanity rapes by men who simply cannot imagine a woman could mean it when she says no to HIM.
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