From: This is just stupid dot com

Criminals are not exactly known for their abundant intelligence. The majority of them are just trying to make a quick buck and they end up getting caught because they don’t cover their tracks very well. But some criminals are even dumber than others – like the guy who stole gold jewelry from a pawn shop and then tried to pawn it at the same pawn shop for some fast cash.

In fairness to the criminal, he didn’t know that the gold that he had stolen was stolen directly from the pawn shop. He was a United States postal worker who had seen a package of gold come in through the mail. A lot of people are using the mail to sell gold for cash these days so he figured that nobody would really notice if he just took one package and tried to make his own money off of it.

Unfortunately, he ran into some seriously bad luck because he didn’t know where the package containing the gold had originated from. He took the gold into a pawn shop and asked for $300 in exchange for the jewelry. The pawn shop owner took one look at the jewelry and realized that it was from a package that he had recently sent out to be melted down. The dumb mistake cost the criminal his job and he ended up being charged with embezzlement.