Stupidity: Why? Why? Why?
by Brian Korte

Stupidity. Its something that we all suffer from ocasionally. It can be a burden to some, a lifestyle for others.

Take the young black man from Maryland, for example. This dude decides he has nothing to do. He gets in his light blue pickup truck, and parks in front of the Chevy Chase Blockbuster Video Store. He pulls his black ski mask and gun from the glove compartment, and walks into the store. He holds the $4.75-per-hour clerks up, and demands that they hold still. He then browses the video store for the most recent movies. He takes as many as his arms will hold, slips out the door, and goes to his favorite hideout location. The next weekend, he repeats this at the Columbia, MD, Blockbuster Store. Later that week, he goes and does the same thing with the Alexandria, VA, store. At the end of two months, he has succesfully robbed more than 12 video stores!!

By this time, the police were catching on. (I give them credit for that. It usually takes more than 15!) Anyhow, they searched around, made some sketches, and came up with the usual list of suspects. Sure enough, they got a name, an address, and went to the 30 year-old's apartment. When no one was home, they looked around, and saw the light blue pickup truck driving off. They immediately had it followed. Where did it go? Well, the owner of this truck, a young black male, headed out to the store he had just opened. "What kind of store?" you ask? Why, a VIDEO store, of course; full of the newly arrived movies he had freshly stolen. Not only did the cops find every single stolen item in that store, but they observed an even greater stupidity. The tapes in this "store" still had the local area Blockbuster labels on them. This loser is now spending his days in the prison facility at Lorton, VA, where he can enjoy basketball games, and free cable for the next 25-40 years.

This is a true story. This is stupid, people. Stupidity is all around us. Idiots breed like rabbits. I am not suggesting that all crooks are dumb. My high school teacher and friend, Dayve Forman, has repeatedly said it best. "Crime does pay. Getting caught is what doesn't pay." If you're going to rob a video store, sell the tapes immediately. Dub them if you must, but get rid of them, for God's sake! Don't keep the damned things to use in your own store. Man, that's dumb. "Thanks for shopping." "Come again!"