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Thief leaves police vital tip-off

Criminal stupidity appears to be on the rise. In yesterday’s bdaily we reported on Alabama’s trigger-happy fireworks thief, and today Germany provides another example of illegal imbecility.

A careless burglar provided police with a crucial clue at a break-in when he sliced off the end of a finger on a broken window, Reuters reports. Police wasted no time in matching the piece of finger with existing prints of a 15-year-old from the town of Hildesheim. The youth initially denied breaking and entering, but confessed when police produced the digital remnant.

“We usually find fingerprints at the crime scene, but it’s not every day that thieves leave the original there too,” said a police spokesman. “I don’t know if the fellow asked for it back afterwards.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .