There have been numerous incidents of thieves performing acts of thievery and getting caught due to their stupidity. Those videos are always a delight to watch but here’s something that a geek can get excited about. A thief landed in jail after he called the tech support of the stolen printer in order to purchase printer drivers.
Timothy Scott Short, 33, stole a Digimarc printer and a PC connected to it from the Department of Revenue contract office in St. Charles. This printer was used to print driving licenses with the help of software installed on the stolen PC. The PC was locked and keys were stored at a secure location. Tim was unable to access the contents of the PC, hence he decided to call Digimarc’s tech support to purchase printer drivers. He must have been really dumb to have believed that he could replicate driving licenses using the printer drivers alone. A secret service agent listened to the call and recognised the defaulter from a previous instance. I am not sure how the support agents recognised that the caller was hot; those details are not divulged yet. The secret agent confirmed a few contact details and landed upon the thief with the stolen property from his residence.
Tim will have to spend the next ten years behind bars and be poorer by £1,25,000 according to court filings. A simple act of stupidity or maybe ignorance has put the thief out of public life for a long span. Here’s the moral of the story: if you are committing a crime, put your brains to work as long as you play with the loot. But here’s a better moral: Don’t be ignorant, else the whole world would be laughing at you like we laugh at Tim.
via Yahoo News
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