"Intelligence-challenged people"

45 year-old Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas,
after a mechanic reported to police that 18 packages of
marijuana were packed in the engine compartment of the car
which she had brought to the mechanic for an oil change.
According to police, Brasher later said that she didn't realize
that the mechanic would have to raise the hood to change the
oil.

Portsmouth, R. I. Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a
string of vending machine robberies in January when he:
1. fled from police inexplicably when they spotted him
loitering around a vending machine and  2 .later tried to post his $400 bail in coins.

Karen Lee Joachimi, 20, was arrested in Lake City, Florida, for
robbery of a Howard Johnson's motel. She was armed with only an electric chain saw, which was not plugged in.

The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 7:50 am, flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

 
In case you've forgotten about the 1995 awardees, some of them are listed below:


* Bowling Green, Ohio, student Robert Ricketts, 19, had his
head bloodied when he was struck by a Conrail train. He told
police he was trying to see how close to the moving train he
could place his head without getting hit.

* In Wesley Chapel, Florida, Joseph Aaron, 20, was hit in the
leg with pieces of the bullet he fired at the exhaust pipe of
his car. When repairing the car, he needed to bore a hole in
the pipe. When he couldn't find a drill, he tried to shoot a
hole in it.