Crime Pays... Embarrassingly

Carlos Carrasco, twenty-four, was sentenced to ten year's probation in San Antonio for a bungled burglary of a liquor store.  According to records, Carrasco cut his hand badly when he broke through the store's roof; he tried to throw a bottle of whiskey out through the hole he had created but missed, causing the bottle to fall back to the floor, shatter, and set off a burglar alarm; he fell on the broken bottle, cutting himself again; he left his wallet in the store; once on the roof for his getaway, he fell off; and he left a trail of blood from the store to his home down the street.

- Parables, Etc. (October, 1993)