When you’re watching TV and the news come up, we are about some arrests that make sense, robbery, fraud, maybe a high-speed chase, but then there are the ones that make you question humanity and how smart the average person actually is.
These are the stories that prove you don’t need to be a criminal mastermind to end up in handcuffs; you just need to have terrible ideas and even worse timing. So next time you watch the news, think that it can always be worse.
For now just enjoy this collection of arrests so absurd, you’ll feel secondhand embarrassment for the officers who had put up with them.
1
“A friend’s ex was arrested after staging a fake kidnapping for a prank video. Everyone involved knew it was fake, except the bus driver, who saw it happen and called the cops. They ended up charged for wasting police resources.”
2
"My younger brother got arrested for stealing a Ronald McDonald statue from a McDonald’s courtyard. They were walking down the main street carrying it when the police spotted them and told them to return it."
3
"Two guys were fighting outside a nightclub over the last chip in a packet. Another man walked by, ate the chip, and laughed. Moments later, all three were brawling on the ground and ended up arrested, for one chip."
4
"A friend got arrested for threatening someone on Twitter during a 3 a.m. drunken argument over WWE wrestler John Cena."
5
"A friend forgot where his car was parked and reported it stolen. Later, he found it but didn’t report that it was recovered. He drove it to another state and got arrested because police thought he was the thief. He had to explain he was the one who repor
6
"My cousin got arrested for stealing a Scooby-Doo DVD from Walmart. He was 22."
7
"My cousin got arrested for urinating on a statue of Bill Clinton in Ballybunion."
8
"Got arrested for riding a bicycle while slightly intoxicated. The state lab report said I was still legal to drive a car, but I was still brought to court. The judge got annoyed with the officer and threw the case out."
9
"In high school, I had to bail out two friends who stole kayaks during a beach party and went paddling at 1 a.m. They were caught because their boats had no lights. They jumped into the water to escape and were later found freezing and wearing only boxers
10
"A friend was arrested for trespassing and theft after hopping a garden wall to grab a few apples from someone’s tree. An off-duty officer saw him and called it in."
11
“Someone tried to break into a prison to deliver cigarettes to his brother. He got caught and sentenced to five years, so in a way, he got what he wanted.”
12
"Years ago, while drinking on school grounds, a friend tried to start a fire that wouldn’t light. So he got naked and lit his clothes on fire instead. The fire still didn’t catch, and he called the fire brigade from his own phone to report it. When they a
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"My high school boyfriend and his friend got arrested for stealing road signs. They wanted a “Slippery When Wet” sign for a friend’s birthday. While searching for dropped car keys, police saw the stolen sign leaning against the car."
14
"Saw a guy in a bar fight swing back using his arm in a cast. He landed a solid hit, and police arrested him for assault with a deadly weapon."
15
“A guy from my school secretly did a line of coke after a basketball game and had his friends film it. The video got out because one teammate’s dad was a police officer. Somehow, the guy doing coke got away with it, but the one who filmed it was arrested.
