I remember when I was a child we used to listen to the radio, probably AM, in my mother’s VW Bug on the way to school every morning.  And every day after that hard news there would be a segment about stupid thieves.  The bank robber who wrote his hold up note on the back of his paycheck.  The thief who robbed a jewelry store and left behind his wallet.  That sort of thing.  It always loved those news stories.

Now with the advent of the internet there are stories like those every where that you turn.   But every once in awhile there is one that makes you gasp with disbelief at the sheer stupidity.

I had been following this story for a couple days.  The short version of the story is that a company in Vancouver had 6 laptops stolen from their offices.  One of the laptops had an application on it that downloaded photo booth photos right to a company flickr account.

Lo and behold the thief decided to use the photo booth to take photos of himself shirtless showing off his elaborate and easy to identify tatoos.  And they popped up on the flickr stream for all the world to see.

Sometimes there is something to love about the internet.