BERLIN (Reuters) - A careless burglar in Germany left behind a vital clue at a break-in when he sliced off the end of a finger and left it behind, police said on Monday.
"We usually find fingerprints at the crime scene, but it's not every day that thieves leave the original there too," said a spokesman for police in the central town of Hildesheim.
Police wasted no time in matching the piece of finger with existing prints they had from a 15-year-old of Iraqi origin.
The youth initially denied breaking and entering into an office to steal a computer but confessed when police produced the digital remnant, which had been severed on a broken window.
"I don't know if the fellow asked for it (the fingertip) back afterwards," the police spokesman said.
31 October 2006
Dumb criminals
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Okay, that's it. I've GOT to read Reuters more often. I can only speculate as to all the other fabulously weird stuff I'm missing out on.
So much weirdness, so little time.
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