Police point out robber's major fail in humorous Facebook post
Police officers in Georgia are annoyed with how easy one thief made it to solve a recent crime.
The Marietta, Georgia Police Department posted a brief note on Facebook Monday addressed to the "gentleman who shoplifted from one of our local pawn shops today."
"When you make it this easy it takes all the fun out of chasing bad guys!" they wrote in the sarcastic post.
Apparently the shoplifter gave the pawn shop clerk his driver's license and a finger print on the pawn ticket before stealing from the shop. The robbery was also caught on camera, so the police have a lot to work with.
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They said they've already got a judge's signature on the warrant, so they asked him to "at least try to hide" to make this more of a challenge. Otherwise these police officers are over the easy cases.
In a Tuesday update, police keep the sarcasm going. They wrote the shoplifter was "just as bad at hide & seek as he is at stealing." He was taken in to the local jail after police found him allegedly with drugs and the stolen goods from the pawn shop (the search for him "was quite short").
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
