*The smartest criminals are the ones that you don’t know about*

Some of these cops stories are probably the actual criminals telling the story in 3rd person to see people’s responses on their work

Officer: So you’re from Costco Guy: Yes Officer: This doesn’t have an address, where do you live? Guy: Aisle 3

The one at walmart and dropping items in the trash is so fucking smart

“I’m not a cop but i am my brothers wife’s sisters boyfriends cats microwave”

My grandpa worked at prison and once a prisoner escaped , jumped into a lake with a type of plant with a hole in it and floated down stream while breathing through the plant but he forgot about waterfalls

Imagine that one cop is at a dinner party and telling everyone about reversed traffic lights and everyone there just stares at him

Dang the last one is a goddamn genius, but I have a hard time believing that someone so bold and reckless will just piss off to the Bahamas and retire quietly.

Video: "smartest criminals" Everyone: *taking notes*

This video should be titled: “How to commit a crime”.

I’ve edited this comment and now no one will ever know why it got so many likes and comments.

You can say he was a smooth criminal...

The prison escapee who convinced the officer he waz jogging

Some of these are the criminals themselves lowkey bragging.

First human to ever enter Heaven be like: "I'm early!"

Me an intellectual: Places bucket over vendors head and takes everything

I'm certainly wasn't proud of my daughter for this, but I respect her thinking. I had gotten divorced and my daughter was living with me. After 7 months I get a call from the school. I expect she was late, ditched class, talking in class, ect. Apparently she had been sending students into the target across the street. One would cause a distraction (screaming, panicking, fake a seizure, spill liquid and fake a fall) the 2nd person would steal while the 3rd would stand where the camera couldn't see the theft. She made sure they never took anything of large value to avoid security tags. She began selling these items at school. She gave the theives a cut of the money. As if this wasn't enough she began extending credit. When people started defaulting she started hiring "muscle" to enforce collections. I was speechless. She was 12. She got caught because a student who had not paid her back was the son of a scool district employee and they noticed a bruise on his abdomen. She made sure not to have anyone injured on the face, arms or legs so they wouldn't be visable. Thankfully she ended her criminal career there. She is finishing college and plans to go to law school.

Back in the 90's my friend's brother would routinely steal from K-Mart. He'd walk into the back "employees only" section all confident like a man on a mission, take whatever he wanted, and walk right out the front door. It was all in his confidence and attitude. His poise and demeanor shouted "I'm supposed to be here" and nobody ever questioned him. Stereos, BB guns, you name it. It worked every time, and he never got busted.

I heard about this one guy who used to work at Walmart and kept his vest and nametag. He would then walk into different Walmarts and go to one of the checkout lanes. He would tell the person that the supervisors wanted to see them and that he'll take over. He would finish ringing up all the customers' purchases and by the time the supervisors say "We didn't call for you, what are you talking about?" The guy had already finished the customers in line and pulled the money box out of the register and walked away

Darth Sidious. He managed to create multiple political crisis to he could systematically ammass more and more power. First he used a trade dispute to become leader of the Republic. Then he orchestrated a civil war so grant himself emergancy powers all while secretly calling the shots on both sides! Finally, he used tye war to isolate the Jedi and had almost all of us murdered by own own troops and he branded the entire thing as putting down an inssurection so the public was on his side! He even manipulated a gifted Jedi's emotions so he would join him further increasing his power and reavealing all the secrets of the Jedi! Sidious truly was a genius, and evil man but a genius none the less.

I knew this KZfaqr once. He had been stealing reddit stories for quite some time now. He would have continued to get away with it were it not for the obscene amount of ads.

All these people are saying they're here early while I'm just sitting here remembering that Epstein didn't kill himself.

I’m so smart of a criminal I haven’t even committed a crime Edit: *Yet.*

Friend of mine, from his old criminal days when there were far fewer cameras: There was a major catalog box store in town that was going out of business, my friend's minion worked at the store but did not have the code to disable the alarm. They would sneak up on the roof several times a night and drip water down one of the vents until enough moved along the ceiling to set off the alarm (much like the guy in the flat next to a jewelry store in the video). Police would come, see nothing wrong. The owner would come, see nothing wrong. A couple times the cops came by during the day to check up on things. My friend dripped the water from the roof while his minion pointed out the 'leak' he spotted to the cops and his boss. They waited over a week until the owner finally turned off the alarm and called to have the 'leak' repaired. That night the minion unlocked the doors and my friend rolled up with a moving truck. They loaded it up with products. A cop came by and asked what they were doing, he'd been stationed to stay in the area and keep an eye out since the alarm was out of order. The cop saw and recognized the minion who explained that since the alarm wasn't working his boss wanted them to take some of the more valuable items up to another store that wasn't closing. They almost got away with it until the cop saw my friend who was well known for running the local grand theft auto scene (for a chopshop in Nevada). My friend was very intelligent and never got caught 'doing his business' only ever got caught on his 'for fun' crimes. My friend has served his time and turned around his life. Now my bf works in his garage and sometimes I take care of his lovely daughter. He's learned how to cope with the psychoses that had driven him to a life of crime before. It certainly wasn't for lack of money, most of the crime he committed when he was already wealthy from family. His life of crime drove him to poverty and he has built a legit life. I'm very proud of the wonderful man he has become.

my aunt was 26 and she worked in a dollar tree. these 2 dudes drilled a hole into the wall and they didnt wear gloves and tore down the store. they opened the safe and took out 5 dollars worth of pennies.

I used to unpack toys from Walmart and then say I found them to the staff, they usually let me keep it, i was like 7-9😂

Criminal was such a great class until they added the technology patches Edit: didn't expect this comment to blow up, but thanks for the likes and replies guys!

The crime where the guy simply goes into the garden Department and throw something away then wait for it to be put in the trash is a tactic that still being used at Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot and so many more places. We used to do this scam at many different places especially Home Depot and Lowe's. We would use a credit card and by like a really expensive lawn mower. After you would get your receipt they would instruct you to take it to one of the loading areas so it can be loaded into your vehicle. So you would pet stores with two loading areas. You go to one loading are you show them your receipt. Right when you show them the receipt you hand it off to someone else who goes to the other loading dock or some other employee and shows them the same receipt. So now you have 2 brand new riding mowers. So after you leave having to mowers. You come back the next day and bring the mower you bought on the credit card back so your credit card is reimbursed. We would go up and down I-5 in Washington and Oregon and hit every Home Depot and every Lowe's all the way up, turn around in Oregon and do the same thing all the way back. By this time we would have about 15 riding lawn mowers that were free of charge. This would also work with any big item like air compressors, generators, anything big that you had to go to the Loading area to pick up. Also this works by just going in and buying something like a TV. You would go in by your TV and soon as you were out the door give somebody your receipt. They would go back in and grab the TV again but ask an employee to help them bring it out to their car. So the employee helps you push your TV in a cart or carry it right through the doors for you so if something were to actually happen and they caught you. It wasn't you stealing it was the employee that you had Carey the TV out. If they try to give you the shoplifting charge anyway just take it to court and even though the judge knows you're pulling a con, he has to go by the law and dismiss the charges because you had no possession of an item. it doesn't matter if you deceived an employee. that's not part of the law and you will be found not guilty. I'm not sure how well this works anymore because I stopped shooting heroin 20 years ago. but I have heard of people pulling this scam and the person who taught me this scammed hold it not more than 10 years ago.

7:51 nah that shits easy af to catch I couldn’t count the number of times I peeled stickers off of shit and rescanned items for people in the self check out. Sometimes they’d try to throw a fit and say that the sticker was the real barcode for a power drill even though it scanned as pvc piping, but they all walked away saying they didn’t want it anymore.

CJ prof (cop for 27 years) told me about a few cases he worked. 1: an accountant became a drug dealer in our town. He only sold to a few select people, left no evidence, and was never arrested. They all knew about him, but they could never get enough evidence or even probably cause to make an arrest, or even obtain a search warrant. They estimated that he made well over $20,000,000 in the two years that he was active, then he left town and retired. 2: a series of professional hits in a large city south of ours. Multiple high ranking businessmen went missing, and were all found in the desert, with their hands and heads removed. Only a few could be positively identified by DNA testing, but the bodies were all wearing the same clothes the businessmen had when they disappeared. No arrests were ever made, and they never even found a suspect. 3: police officer retired early, and sent my prof and every other cop from his precinct a letter saying “I am becoming a drug dealer. I have a list of each of your family members’ names, aliases, pictures, and addresses. Don’t try to find me.” Needless to say, they didn’t try very hard to find him.

Just remember people, the smartest of all criminals never get caught, and will never have stories about them.

Regarding the one who used student loans to get into a college where he proceeded to just sell drugs, that was a bad life decision but not a bad fiscal decision since that was $142k of profit. You can get a good, reliable car for ~$25k, leaving him with $117k and whatever he got for his old car (assuming he had one). If you live modestly (not getting the cheapest everything but not buying things they don't have a notable need for either) you can live on $2k/month (at least in my general area). That means that the $117k would last up to 58 months - just shy of 5 years - during which time cost of living would be covered, giving him plenty of time to kick back and figure out what direction he wanted life to go in. At the cost of 1-2 months' worth each quarter they could then go to a community college (in a different location) and get a 2-year degree with total expenditures (life and college) of 40 months or less, 20 months if he really buckled down and devoted himself to it, leaving 18-26 months - minus however long it took them to figure out their direction in life - of leeway at worst to find an entry-level job for their preferred industry that is willing to overlook what he clearly already knew how to convince others was a mistake of the past.

I feel bad for the guy who got his bike stolen must have broke his heart (Time stamp 11:31)

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Back in the 80's there were 2 comic book stores in Dayton OH. I was a regular customer at both so I knew the employees. One night 2 guys broke into one of the stores through the roof. They dropped down on ropes like Tom Cruise I guess. The very next day they tried to sell the rare comics they had stolen at the only other store in the city. They got caught of course.

To be honest, When Ned Kelly robbed a bank back in the day. He was pretty dang smart, he had it all planned out with his gang. Fucking smart boy, Wish he lived longer to tell his story instead of others telling it for him. But.. yet again that's what makes him interesting and the true hero he is. Rip Ned. I love you, And you were a amazing man.

That first story fell apart when he ate the "release to police" papers. How would there be only 1 copy of the damn document, especially if this already happened once?

“more loan then somebody should have in a life time.” me: So you haven’t played animal crossing?

*A thread made for cops* Everybody else on the thread: I’m not a cop BUUUUUTT

3:06 I didnt knew Lucifer uses Reddit

That has to be the bet pirate I've ever seen!

7:51 I’m from Australia and find this really funny. You have know idea how much fun you can have in other countries like this

Kira is the smartest criminal lol

Today I was sitting in the car alone playing on my phone while my mom and her boyfriend went to shop in RiteAid. when they came back they asked me “Did you see that guy?” I replied “No? What happened?” And my mom said how he had swiped everything off the shelf and put it in his bag and walked out, and said “That’s how you do it.” No one was paying attention cause they were too busy talking. Wish I saw that though.

Me and my classmates stole a cola for no reason when we were like, 9 lol Also we weren't caught

*why is no one talking about this persons name at **4:08* 😂

I worked at Target. They had someone who would go into stores, hide behind merchandise until the store closed, then stack a bunch of boxes by the emergency exit, and someone would drive up, then they'd quickly load up the merch and drive away.

I know a guy who was hiding money from the IRS, would FedEx himself packages of stacks of cash from his business. Eventually the feds found out about this and started weighing his packages full of money. Once they charged him with tax evasion, his lawyers argued that even though the feds knew the weight of the money, they couldn't prove that the packages were full of anything more than $1 bills. So he was ordered to pay his taxes, but only on 1/100th of the cash he hid from the IRS.

Everyone loves slippin' Jimmy

“Not a police officer but an RA in college” 😂 clearly comparable professions

One I heard about - the supermarket I used to work for had these pneumatic tubes that would suck pods containing the money from the checkouts to the cash office. Idea being that no money would need to be carried by hand across the shop floor. It turned out that the pneumatic tubes traveled through the ceiling above the customer toilet. So one guy went to the toilet with a hacksaw and cut a hole in the tube. Then came back and took all of the pods that fell out into the ceiling cavity.

The BestBuy story is actually a legend, when I use to work there everyone was told about it and we actually had to change the entire companies closing routine because of this robbery.

That one where they tried to return something without the receipt trick was also used in oceans 8

You know when somebody does something really bad so you should feel angry at them? But then the way they did it was sort of smart

@4:02 friend did this a long time ago; it’s called “the razor exchange”. He did the same thing only he picked out the most expensive electric razor and returned it without the receipt - the gave him store credit for the value of the item, he bought gift cards to several restaurants and took us out to drink on Walmart’s dime. We were having fun...until the state troopers tracked us down and we were all arrested. Friend manned up and took the wrap, he didn’t get into too much trouble.

Thank you for all the advice.

Back in my day, my mom would give me one penny, just one, and I would pop down to the local grocery store and come back with 3 gallons of milk, several packets of candy, and some bags of chips. We can't do that now. Too many damned cameras.

I robbed a glue stick from my school when I was 14 but I felt really bad so I gave them the money the next day lol

I don't know if they still do it, but back in the 80's, When Target would get in shipments of larger items like furniture, the truck drivers would just drive around to the back of the store, disconnect the trailer portion of the truck, and leave it there. Target used the trailers as extra storage so the larger items wouldn't take up too much space in the stockroom. One of the employees who had access to the keys to the padlocks on the trailers had one of their friends come in while they were working, and they gave them the keys. The friend went to a hardware store and made copies. They would go back late at night and using the keys, they would take a few items from each of the trailers, then lock them back up and leave. They would sell the stuff at the flea market and repeat the process. Since they were only taking a few items from each trailer, and they were using they keys, Target never even noticed the missing items. or if they did, they probably assumed they were stolen from inside the store by shoplifters.

The first one is actually legitimately insane. Because only someone who has some degree of psychopathy would do what he did.

The lady stealing the alcohol is genius.

Back when I was 10 I would wear shoes then go to the store with the same shoes the switch and walk out like nothing happend

I love how the next video after this is criminal masterminds sharing their crimes!

1:35 Holy Shit that man is a legend for figuring that out.

I loved the Jim story The dude was a legend

Me: *Reads Title * Also Me: *_L I G H T Y A G A M I_*

12:54 damn, now that was smart. Plus no one was hurt and the owners were reimbursed.

4:13 what a name 😂💀

Light yagami... Scribbling the names it deathnote while laughing eerily

Thanks for all the ideas

There's a video of British police chasing a criminal down into a dead end with a large building beside a fence. The criminal actually hid himself by using a metal painted collapsible tube and standing beside the building, looking almost like a ventilation duct of some sorts. He got caught because an officer went to lean on the duct and it gave way.

Well this was very interesting especially the barcode thingy I would love to try that out

It says "who you have ever *encountered* " you geniuses

Great one a security guard told me. They come in with a shopping bag, drop shopping into bag, walk out. In Ireland a security guard can only detain you if they accuse you of stealing. A false alegantion is grounds for defamation. Bottom of bag is cut out, 'stolen' item falls through and it's kicked under the tail. Another one is training young kids to throw stuff into a buggy. Same kid comes back with different adults during the day.

Well, considering I was a hacker for 8 years and was never caught...... (The Statute of Limitations already expired on everything anyway.) I didn't go after people, mostly large companies that could afford it. I only took what I needed, never got greedy, and always worked alone.

They done goofed lupin should have been the thumbnail

Title: *Police Officers* share the smartest criminal they've encountered Stories: I'm not a cop but..

Professor: Hold my beer

Thanks for the advises!! ♡♡♡

Id say the smartest they've never encountered.

"I'm not a cop but my mom's cousin's little brother son's dad are friends with my dad and my dad's mom was a cop though"

At roughly 4:00 they bring up the “can I return this?” Thing and they said it doesn’t really work anymore but at most Walmart’s they don’t pay attention to the cameras much. I used to do this

The one about constantly setting off the alarm until they finally turned it off is exactly how Simon Dermott (played by Peter O’Toole) stole the “Cellini Venus” statue from the Kléber-Lafayette Museum with Nicole Bonnet (played by Audrey Hepburn) in the movie How to Steal a Million. I bet the thief got that idea from the friggin’ movie.

Me who hid the DS under the pillow after bedtime and never got caught: AMATUERS

6:54 me being from Arkansas lol

IM SO LONELY THAT THE DRAWING IN THE THUMBNAIL GAVE ME BUTTERFLIES 😭😭😭

This got to be the best Pirate Ive ever Seen.

Damn that was a smart guy with the superbike theft.

*Almost* none of these criminals are smart... *Most of them* got Caught.

wow thanks for the usefull tips

Thanks for some good tips :)

"...he got like a year for the robberies, but using the fake gun added 5 years to the sentence." Yeah, that's not really a smart criminal.

I knew a guy that used the “throw away merch, and steal it from the dumpster”.....he did it with a twist though, he would throw in one of those fobs that you can use to find lost keys. He would push a button on the locator and the bag with his merch would beep until he located it.

7:12 This isn't even possible. They run your ID in their system to be ABLE to write the ticket.

Costco dude is a semi mad lad LOL

I'm smarter than those criminals, I still didn't get caught

“I think I’m bout to STEAL”

This video is an inspiration for some people

4:59 That is straight out of a disney comic book I red when I was a kid.

The one about the games and PS3 has to be fake. They lock the games up. You'd have to ask for every game, and console you wanted, and if nobody saw you checkout with those items, they'd obviously get suspicious.