Talk about unlucky. A man stole a pickup truck outside of a concert near Dallas and then drove right past the owner of the truck — a police officer who was directing traffic at the event. The cop recognized the vehicle as his own and, after an ill-advised getaway attempt, the thief was apprehended. As someone who’s had his car stolen, I would certainly understand a little police brutality in this case.

That’s just dumb luck, while this is just dumb: This guy drove a stolen SUV to court on the day the jury was deciding “whether to convict him in a separate auto theft case.” But this guy was actually pretty smart — he robbed a bank and made his getaway in style when he hopped into a waiting black limousine. At least he got away.

Not this guy, who was “charged with driving while intoxicated twice in the same day in upstate New York” — first he stopped at state police headquarters, while intoxicated, to ask for directions. Then, still drunk, he returned to take his car from the police parking lot instead of “sleeping it off,” as the troopers had instructed. He was arrested a short time later. He’s clearly too dumb to have a car.

Not to be outdone in dumbness, “[t]hree Oklahoma City men were arrested after playing ‘chicken’ with a police car.” Good thing they weren’t playing with this guy: “A policeman chosen officer of the year in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been charged with drunken driving.”

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