QUIRKY WORLD ... World's dumbest criminal leaves ID and helpful selfie for police

The world’s dumbest criminal drops his guard

USA: 21-year-old Travis Devonte Rice broke into a car dealership recently and, along with an accomplice, stole files, licence plates, 44 car keys, and four cars.

How do we know that it was Travis Devonte Rice who did the deed? Well, he dropped his ID on the floor of the dealership, and then on top of it, posted a picture on Facebook of him holding one of the car keys he had just stolen. As WSVN 7 News reports, police had quite a bit of information to work from.

Jonathan Shamis, manager of Arion Motors in Plantation, Florida said that the next day when he came in and saw they had been robbed, they noticed a driver’s licence on the floor. After watching surveillance video, he and his coworkers noticed that Rice had dropped it out of his pocket when he had taken out his cellphone.

Arion Motors owner Adnan “Eddie” Radoncic told the Sun Sentinel: “[The investigator] was taking fingerprints but I said, ‘I don’t think you need to do that,’ and she said, ‘Why not?’ and I said, ‘Because the bad guy left his [ID card] here, in plain sight.’”

Rice then posted a photograph of himself holding one of the keys he had stolen on Facebook.

Shamis told WSVN what we’re all thinking, “I think the guy was very careless. Maybe he thought that there wasn’t any surveillance here. It says here, in big letters, all over the walls that this place is recorded. I would say the world’s dumbest criminals.”

BRITAIN: A guide to coping with an awkward romantic moment has been awarded a prize for the year’s oddest book title.

Humorous self-help book How to Poo on a Date: The Lovers’ Guide to Toilet Etiquette triumphed Friday in the quirky Diagram Prize.

Organisers said the book, published by Prion Press, received 30% of votes in an online ballot. It beat other finalists including “Are Trout South African” and “Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City.”

Prize director Horace Bent said voters had chosen “a manual that can help one through life’s more challenging and delicate moments.”

The prize, founded in 1978, is run by the British trade magazine, The Bookseller.

USA: There should have been a sign reading, “Thou shalt not park here.” Then a New Orleans nun — who was delivering food to the homeless — might not have gotten towed.

Sister Beth Mouch had just finished delivering food to the St Jude Community Centre in New Orleans, according to WWLTV.com. When she went back outside, she found that a tow truck was preparing to take her vehicle away.

With her vehicle not yet hitched to the tow truck, Mouch begged the driver to stop, she told WWLTV.

“Please, sir, stop. I’m a getting ready to move,” Mouch recounted. The driver apparently offered little sympathy.

Mouch said she doesn’t want the fine waved but that she would like tow truck drivers and parking enforcement officers to undergo sensitivity training.

USA: Police say a man in North Carolina sucked a woman’s toes at a Wal-Mart after he convinced her he was a podiatry student and persuaded her to take off her shoes.

Detective Dennis Harris said the woman agreed to try on several pairs of shoes at the discount store in Lincolnton, and that at some point during the process, the man stuck her foot in his mouth. Harris said the man apparently tried the same thing at another Wal-Mart 15 miles away, where he told a woman he was conducting a survey on the feet of different races and nationalities.

The second woman also agreed to take off her shoes, but left when the suspect asked her to remove her socks.

Both confrontations happened Monday. Police are looking for the man.