I survived CES, and I’ll have some thoughts from it up later. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy another tale of mobile phones and dumb criminals. In South Africa, police put out a statement talking about the “dumbest criminal” they’ve run into in a while:

Police in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, claim to have to caught the “dumbest criminal” this year.

The man walked into a station to report that he had been held up at gunpoint by a gang who had stolen his mobile phone.

But when the detective phoned the number of the phone reportedly stolen, it rang in the complainant’s pocket.

“The shock left him speechless for a few minutes,” said police spokesman Eugene Opperman, adding that the man, 25, was then arrested for perjury.

Nice one.

This second one doesn’t really involve mobiles, but it’s heavy on the dumb criminals. In something ripped from Weekend at Bernie’s, two guys in New York got arrested after wheeling their dead “friend” on an office chair to a check-cashing place so they could cash his Social Security check. Yeesh.

A tip of the MH cap to Jim Hughes, and as always, be sure to send in the stupid criminal stories you spot.