“They will spend the festive season thinking of the consequences of their actions.”
Justin Watts, Inspector with the Kent Police
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| Photo by John Phelan |
Thank God for dumb crooks. They make a cop’s job so much simpler. Case in point: the three guys who knocked off a Christmas tree lot in Pembury, Kent, England (population 6,005). To their credit, they did have the wherewithal to smash two cameras videotaping the lot. But sadly for them, and happily for the tree merchant, they missed the third camera that caught everything they were doing on tape. On top of that, a security guard spotted them climbing the fence and carting away trees. He called the bobbies, and quiet as church mice they moved in and captured the three guys. But where were the trees? That’s the best part. All the police had to do was follow the trail of pine needles, and it led them straight to the thieves’ van—loaded with 138 Christmas trees, 48 boxes of Christmas lights, and two wheelbarrows. The trees were returned to their lot and the crooks were hauled off to court. Case closed.
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