America's Dumbest Criminals - Season 4, Episode 19 - Invasion of Privacy - Full Episode | Forensic Files

NARRATOR: Tonight on "America's Dumbest Criminals" wouldn't you consider the suspect's
hideout an invasion of privacy? Is there a better way to get on the wrong side of the law
than stealing a patrol car? And watch as a man on the run goes from the frying pan
to the fire, or at least to the swamp. They're all on the run, but you can catch up with them
right here where you are here on "America's Dumbest Criminals." [music playing] Now welcome your hosts for ADC, Daniel Butler and Debbie Alan.
-We are so glad to have you with us. If you've watched the show before you know we always have something unusual in store.
-Oh, truer words were never spoken, little Debbie. And I've got a little something extra special I
wanna grab right here, OK? -Oh, what is that? -Huh? This is a tiny surveillance camera.
-Does it really work? It's so small. -You're one to talk. I mean, you're small and you work, don't you?
Come on. -[laughs] Some times. OK. Let's see you demonstrate. -Well, all right. Give it a second.
OK. Take a look, huh? Check it out. There it is. -Oh, hey. Wow! That's amazing. -See, yeah.
This, this is nothing, OK. I think it's time to conduct a cavity check. Woah. -Daniel, Daniel, stop right now.
-No, OK. No now wait. Now check out what happens when I put this into my mouth. OK.
-Oh, yuck. Yuck. Oh, hey! Hey, that's pretty cool. It's like looking deep into Mammoth Cave.
-Oh! -And I mean Mammoth. [groans] -Shh, shh. [groans] -Don't say anything. Let's just enjoy the quiet.
Well, ladies and gentlemen if you'll look to your left you'll see where we found the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Down to the right is where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. -Uh-huh. -Ah, hey. Hey, you don't floss.
That's enough. Get outta there. -Wooh. That's pretty amazing, huh? -That is cool.
And it's G rated, too. Which is more than we can say for the intentions of the high tech peeping tom in our first story.
-Oh yeah. He was aiming his lens up ladies skirts at a carnival. Step right up, folks.
See the greatest freak on the midway as he was caught on camera. -Every year here we have a big festival
in town called the Delray Fair. Um, I was working security walking around. A lady came up to me and told me that a man
had been following her. Um, she pointed the man out. I then started walking in this direction.
And, uh, he started walking away from me, which I thought was a little peculiar.
Uh, I caught up to him about block away. And started talking to him and I noticed
that he had, uh, like a suitcase on his side. And later found out that it was a, a video camera.
And he had a, a wire ran down his leg. And a camera in his shoe. And what he was doing is walking up behind a lady with dresses
on and standing right behind them and following them around. I arrested him, seized the camera,
seized the, all the camera equipment. His attorney called up wanting to know if you he
could have the camera back. Uh, we seized the camera and we put the cameras as part, as part of his agreement.
He was found guilty of, um, disorderly conduct and video taping people without, without their knowledge.
-The twist in this next story start when a fireman catches a burglar. -He was really put out, I hear.
-[laughs] That's bad. When the smoke clears we're gonna have some great material
for the feature we call, something to remember me by. -Our department received a call of a burglary
that had just occurred to a house. The home owner came home and, uh, surprised the two criminals.
-I guess the, uh, when he walked in the house, uh, one of the guys that committed the burglary,
Raymond was loading up some VCRs and stacking stuff up in the kitchen area. He turns around and notices the guy,
the volunteer fireman with a logo and thinks he's a policeman. And, uh, he said something tot he effect of, I'm sorry
officer. I must have got the wrong house. -Yeah. -I was looking for a friend. And with that, the fireman acted on that
and decided to act like a policeman and order them down on the ground. -Well, he went down on the ground,
but unfortunately Raymond's partner, Kathy, ran out of the house behind him, got into the van.
Tried to back the van out. Unfortunately, the, uh, unfortunately for Kathy, uh, the homeowner's truck was in the driveway blocking the van.
So she slammed into the truck, pulled it forward. Did this a couple of times. Well, during this time, Raymond and the homeowner
were a little bit of fight. It kind of spilled out into the driveway. Uh, Kathy and Raymond decide well,
we better get out of here. The van's not working so -As Kathleen was running across the yard,
she inadvertently left a few things behind that told us who she was and where to find her,
which included her house key. -Oh. She also left some pawn shop receipts in the van which had,
let me think, her name, her home address, home telephone number, her Social Security number, and her date of birth.
Went to her apartment building and lo and behold the keys that she left in the van opened the apartment building.
-We asked her a few questions and after a few things of what she had to say that wasn't coinciding
with what happened we placed her under arrest. -I brought the, uh, the victim down to the jail
the next morning. And, uh, we did the lineup. And gave him plenty of time to view the lineup.
He took about, I think, 15 to 30 seconds, uh, said, OK I'm done. I've had enough time.
It's definitely number four. So we had had her in, in custody that night, but, uh, after speaking with some of, uh, her boyfriend
Raymond's family members, he finally turned himself in the next day. -He knew the jig was up.
He knew he wasn't going anywhere. -He wasn't going anywhere. -After a couple years as detectives still
our favorite caper. -Don't mess with my stuff. It's an internationally recognized credo
that keeps the peace between siblings and roommates. -Yeah, you'd think that would go double when it concerns stuff
belonging to the police department, but we've learned of a woman who couldn't keep her hands,
or her lead foot to herself. -For the full story, we go to Sheriff Chunky Click, that's
his name, Chunky Click [laughs] in Carlsbad, New Mexico. -On a particular evening here in [inaudible]
County one of our officers was on the routine patrolling and responded to a traffic accident.
A, uh, female had wrecked her van. Uh, it was also DWI. She was arrested and placed in a,
a utility type patrol vehicle. And while the officer was processing the scene, she managed to get out of the backseat of this vehicle
and get in the front seat. And drive off with out vehicle. At which time she was pursued by several officers.
In the process of the pursuit she, uh, hit two parked vehicles and the officers also initiated
is our spike system. And we spiked out own vehicle. And finally got her stopped and took her into custody.
NARRATOR: In Delaware it's illegal to fly over any body of water without sufficient supplies
of food and drink. -In our next story the suspect definitely had a sufficient supply of drink,
but he was a little short in the food department, so he took matters into his own hands.
What I really mean is that he picked up a rock. What happened next? He threw his hat into the ring for America's dumbest excuses.
-The, uh, incident occurred right here on Atlantic Beach Causeway. A drunk ends up on, one of our motel, gets the, uh,
motel manager to the door, ask him for a hacksaw. Of course the motel manager doesn't know
or doesn't care what he wants and get him out of there. So motel manager, thinking this is suspicious anyway,
for the guy to be in the early morning hours asking for a hacksaw when everything's closed, calls up.
When the officer responds, goes down there, and hears a, uh, loud banging noise coming from a bar in a restaurant right,
right next door. The officer goes around there, calls for a backup. As they arrive, they cover the-- the breezeway
to the side entrance of the restaurant. -I heard somebody mumbling to their self.
-Darn, I wish I'd gotten this hacksaw. -I went and looked around they edge of the door
and there he stood starting, looking there starting back at me. -With this lard rock in his hand that he'd
been beating the frame of the door in with. Place him under arrest. As officers are talking amongst themselves,
one says to the other one, I think they just, he's probably just going to get some more beer from, from the bar.
-The drunk speaks up says, no, I wasn't. No, I wasn't. I was going in there to fix a sandwich.
I didn't want that beer. And that's for me to know and you to prove, and then a rather quiet ride the rest
of the way back to the jail. -EMTs face desperate situations. They sometimes break out the jaws of life,
but when this suspect tries to elude police he encounters a very different sets of jaws.
For this blue light special, let's go to Slidell Louisiana and make it snappy. -There was a little old lday that was, uh,
getting some French fries at McDonalds, uh, one night. While she was sitting in the drive-through window,
a male came up, pointed a gun at her and wanted her car. So, um, she jumps out. He, uh, takes the car and takes off from drive-through window.
We, uh, chase the vehicle down. Um, we got him cornered and he bails out of the car
and runs to a, a dark wooded area where he thinks he's going into a wooded area to get away from the police.
Well, needless to say, he falls into a bayou, right into the middle of a mother alligator where she just, uh, given birth to her,
to her young. And, uh, he couldn't wait to be arrested. He jumped out of that water and back to bank,
I mean he wasn't even wet, [inaudible] so fast. He had his hands behind him ready to be arrested.
-You probably think that WWF stands for World Wrestling Federation, but in this next story
it stands for wrinkly white females. Fighters to your corners for the battle of the tough old birds.
-I come up and there's this real old lady. And she's frail and she's rubbing her hand like this.
I get out of care and I look at, at her, what she's running. Notice there's blood all over her hand.
I said, what's wrong with you, sweetheart? And she says, -My sister, she's-- I reached for the last piece of chicken.
And she stabbed me right there. -All of a sudden my chest got real big. And I said, uh huh.
OK, this must be a real young sister. I go over there and I knock on the door real really hard.
To my surprise, it ended up being an older sister. And when she opened up the door, her eye
was completely swollen shut. What happened to you? -Officer, we was eating chicken and I told her not
to take my last piece of chicken and she did it anyway so I accidentally stabbed the man with a fork.
-And she hit me in the forehead with a frying pan the chicken was sitting in. Come to find out they had both been drinking all day long.
And I couldn't figure out what to do, so I finally found a great great great nephew that could get off
his job to come and look after them. -No. -Let's go. Come on, girls. You want me arrest a 90 year old lady?
I don't think so. -And now with [inaudible] from the drain pipes of America, here's Daniel with ADC headlines.
-Only a case of claustrophobia could have made things worse for a bank robber in Niceville, Florida.
Although he never showed a weapon, the teller gave him money as requested and he was halfway
to freedom, but only half way. Just as he exited through one set of doors in the double doored foyer, she pressed
a button the caused both sets to lock. Next thing you know he's going nowhere fast in a glass cage.
So, in most cases investigators looked for fingerprints to find out who committed a crime.
In this case from Fort Lauderdale the suspect gave police the finger, literally.
Apparently it was shot off. As an argument turned violent. The suspect got away, but with evidence that
pointed it wasn't long before police fingered him. Men usually flock to see the bodies inside the doors
of strip joints, but it was the body in the parking lot of a Columbus, Ohio club that caught officers' eyes.
A funeral home driver took a detour to check out the exotic dancers while transporting a corpse
from a nursing home to the funeral home. The officers confronted the man who assured them that he would
never again consider such an undertaking. And that closes the file on ADC headlines,
news ripped from somewhere near the back of your local newspaper. Oh, tiny one. -It's a form of illness not normally found
in the general populace, but often runs rampant in the criminal world. The malady?
Selective amnesia for one of the most unforgettably foolish cases we've ever seen, let's check out our special delivery.
-Two people were involved in a wreck and I got out there to the write up the accident report
and I end up giving one of the guys the ticket. He signed the ticket and then he asked for it back.
And curious, I gave it back it to him so see what he was gonna do with it. He crossed out the name he had signed,
which later turned out to be his own, crossed it out like two or three lines over, and then signed what later turned
out to be his brother's name. Not thinking I would notice two different names there crossed out on the ticket.
He also went to jail. -Judging from the slapstick shenanigans of this thief on the loose, you would have thought he was being pursued
by the Keystone Kops, but this wasn't a mad cab movie. It was the real deal. As we learned from a real life officer
in Westminster, California. -Probably about 10 years ago, uh, working graveyard,
got a call over in this residential area of a, of a prowler, a peeking Tom, and a pretty good description on him.
So me and, and one of partners were rolling over there and I get there first. And here's this guy walking down the street.
He matches the description. And it's 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the morning. So it's, it's worth it to stop him and see what he's doing.
So I stop and get out of the car and I'm talking to him and he's, he's a young kid. he's about 18 years old
or something. Get his driver's license and run him warrants and as we're talking to him dispatch comes back
and advises us he's got a warrant. So I don't care, we're gonna arrest this guy and he hears it on the radio.
So he, he just screams, no and takes off running. And here I am. I'm on his tail.
I'm chasing him. He gets down to the end of the street and instead of following the street around,
he turns up a sidewalk up to a house. Runs up to this house, I'm about two feet behind him.
He throws open the front door, runs inside the front door, through the living room, turns goes down the hallway,
there's a bedroom, throws open the bedroom door, here's a man and his wife laying in bed watching TV.
[inaudible], and this guy screams, don't let him get me! And he dives over the bed, and I dive over the bed
and he turns on me and it's fist city. This guy's he's, he's punching, I'm swinging.
My partner's getting out of his car. He's running in. He runs and grabs this guy, yanks him up,
we get him handcuffed and stuff. And he's screaming and kicking and all that. And I look at this couple and I'm thinking it's probably
her brother, or his brother, or something, and I go, I, I'm really sorry. I go, we don't usually handle arrests like this.
I go, is, is he your brother or what? And they go, we've never seen him before in our lives.
NARRATOR: In Pennsylvania, it's illegal to discharge a gun, cannon, revolver, or other explosive weapon
at a wedding. -You know, uh, Debbie mentioned selective amnesia a few minutes ago, but that guy's medical problems
are nothing compared to the biological bombshell in our final story. -I wonder if the publishers of the New England Journal
of Medicine know what we know as profiled in this edition of we're not making this up.
-The defendant was ordered to submit a urine sample to the probation department.
He acted kind of nervous. He was fidgety. He continued to give excuses as to why
he couldn't submit a sample. And that's not that uncommon. That happens. You know, people go over and the probation department
tries to allow you to have some time to do what you're supposed to do. So they gave him some time and
-Try this. -Oh, thank you. -Asked him if he needed some water. If that would help.
He drank water several times. It didn't seem to be helping. -I still can't do it.
-Still can't do it? Here. Drink this. -They noticed that he was acting somewhat, a bit,
uh, nervous and a little uptight. So they were a little bit suspicious maybe that something was going on.
He asked if they time if he could go out and have a cigarette. -I need a cigarette.
-And they indicated that would be OK. He left with his wife. They went out and apparently had a cigarette.
And when he came back, he was ready and willing to provide that sample. -Oh, OK.
Thank you. Finally. -See you. -He submitted the sample. It was tested. The probation department tested the temperature.
Temperature wasn't quite right so they had an additional test which revealed that, uh, he was pregnant.
Maybe this was an amazing miracle, or he had switched his urine with somebody else.
-Debbie, I just ran this little camera down my shirt during the break and my chest hair
looked like a Redwood forest. [laughs] Congratulations. -Pretty cool, yeah. You want me to check your ear while I got thing thing,
-Oh, no, no. I haven't shaved there in weeks. -Ooh! -Oh, now it's time to say our goodbyes.
-Yeah. We'd like to thank all who work in law enforcement and especially the good humored officers who
helped us with this edition of ADC. -And we'd like to thank you for tuning in. If you'd like to send us a note or clue us in on a great story,
visit our website at www.dumbcrimes.com -We'd love to hear from you. -Uh huh. As always, we hope that we've all
learned from others mistakes. -But if you haven't, we just might see your tonsils
next week on "America's Dumbest Criminals." -Goodbye. [applause] [music playing]

In this episode of “America’s Dumbest Criminals,” we’ll witness a suspect having his privacy invaded, the theft of a patrol car and a man making his way out of the frying pan into the fire - or at least into a swamp.

Crime is no laughing matter, except when the criminals are bumbling fools. Hosted by Debbie Alan and Daniel Butler, this show looks at lawbreakers through a humorous lens.

Brief Summary

This episode covers bizarre crimes including a peeping tom, a burglar caught by a fireman, and a woman stealing a patrol car.

Key points

America's Dumbest Criminals. A look at some of the most ridiculous criminal antics caught on camera.
The High-Tech Peeping Tom. A man caught filming women at a carnival with hidden cameras.
The Burglar Who Got Caught. A fireman pretends to be a cop to catch a burglar, but chaos ensues.
The DWI Driver's Escape. A woman escapes from a police vehicle only to crash into parked cars.
The Unbelievable Urine Test. A suspect's urine test reveals a shocking secret.

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Is there a better way to get on the wrong side of the law?

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