From the archives: This story was last updated in August 2019.
We’ve all seen them before: videos of criminals who definitely should have done a lot more research and rehearsal before attempting their dastardly deeds. Whether it’s locking themselves inside the stores they are robbing and having to be let out by the officers who will then arrest them or dropping all the money they’ve stolen on the street, these stories show crime doesn’t pay.But a story in January 2019 in Florida illustrated the concept even more dramatically when a thief put his hands on a bottle of pills he thought would give him a high. Only things didn’t go quite the way he anticipated.
