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28th August 2005 Archive

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  • Eight CCTV cameras bust 'Mr Stupid'

    CCTV store blag goes titsup

    Michael Adams is known to his friends as "Mr Stupid", while UK tabloid the Sun classifies him as "Britain's dumbest thief". And no wonder, since the bungling blagger lifted a laptop from a Manchester CCTV store while no less than eight cameras recorded the sorry scene for posterity. After getting his collar felt at a bus stop …

    Bootnotes 28 Aug 2005, 14:51

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