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12:09 January 30th, 2007

Hey! If you can’t trust a kidnap victim, who can you trust?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , ,

Even though it isn’t quite the end of the month, I’m going to announce the winners of the Dumbest Criminals competition for January. Before you other dumb criminals say that’s unfair and start complaining, listen to this.

It seems these two guys kidnapped a woman and sent her into a bank with orders to withdraw money. So far, that’s a fairly standard crime. But here’s where the Olympic Gold Medal dumbness come in, as reported by WSB-TV, in Atlanta.

The kidnappers sent her into the bank alone, and while she was supposed to be getting the money, they went next door to a Chick-Fil-A outlet for a chicken snack. Here’s the story, courtesy of wsbtv.com:

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