Dumb Crimes Europe

Surrey, England, 2014. A man broke into a house. He was, by the standards of his profession, competent — efficient, methodical, prepared. There was just one detail he had not accounted for. The phone in his front pocket.

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Surrey, England, 2014. A man broke into a house. He was, by the standards of his profession, competent — efficient, methodical, prepared. There was just one detail he had not accounted for. The phone in his front pocket. His pocket dialled 999. Surrey Police picked up. The dispatcher heard a man calmly listing items, naming an accomplice, and discussing routes — through the muffle of a pair of jeans. She did not hang up. She kept the line open for twelve minutes. Officers triangulated the call to a specific house in a specific street, drove there, and walked in on the burglary in progress. Kit and Eden on what may be the single most complete piece of disclosure evidence ever produced in a UK burglary trial: a twelve-minute audio recording of the entire crime, made by the criminal, narrated by the criminal, and submitted to the police by the criminal's own front pocket.

What is Dumb Crimes Europe?

They planned the perfect crime. They failed spectacularly.
Dumb Crimes Europe tells the funniest, most absurd true crime stories from across the continent , from the burglar who forgot to log out of Facebook on the victim's computer, to the five tonnes of Nutella that vanished from a German town called Bad Field.
No murders. No violence. Just the purest stupidity European criminals have to offer, delivered with the deadpan seriousness it deserves.
New episodes every Monday.