The Eight Dumbest Car Thieves

If you think it takes smarts to steal a car, you're dead wrong. Getting away with it — that's another story.

By Josh Condon of MSN Autos


Despite what Hollywood blockbusters such as "Gone in Sixty Seconds," "Heat" and "Catch Me If You Can" would have us believe, most criminals are not masterminds playing a well-orchestrated cat-and-mouse game with members of law enforcement, while working toward the heist of a lifetime. If movies were made about real criminals, the majority would be far more slapstick, like an episode of "America's Funniest Home Videos," but with guns.

Here are eight real car thieves who prove that those too lazy to get what they want through hard work and determination are prone to costly shortcuts and mental lapses when it comes to committing crimes...(to read the rest of this story, please click on the link in the title above.)