Your Monday morning can’t be half as tough as this dumb car vandal’s last ‘job’ before knocking off was – rather, knocking himself out, for the night. A ‘thick with a brick’ is a contender for Ireland’s dumbest criminal. The video shows an Irish man hurl a cement block at a car window only to have it bounce back and hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious.
The car owner found the bumbling criminal lying in the street in a pool of blood and realized something wasn’t right when the crook refused his offer to call an ambulance. Gerry Brady, owner of the Pheasant pub in Drogheda, Co Louth, discovered a man lying near his Mercedes E Coupe car after he finished work. “At first I didn’t know what had happened, this was about 1am and we were just finishing up and heading home“I seen this guy lying flat on his back with blood pouring from him, so naturally enough my partner and I went over to help him.”
“Initially I thought the poor bloke had been knocked down by a car, he was in such a bad way “And then when I asked him what had happened, he told me his mate had attacked him.” Said Brady “He tried to explain that he had been drinking with a friend and a row started and he was battered,” he said. Mr Brady became suspicious when the ‘accident victim’ was reluctant to have an ambulance or the garda (police) involved. Said Brady, “I immediately told him I was ringing an ambulance and the guards as he needed to report it, but he didn’t seem to want the cops involved which made me suspicious.”
“My partner then noticed the damage to her car, I had a look at the Merc and could see dents on it. We got the cops and they took him away after we showed them the video.” Mr. Brady said: “We have the whole thing on video, and it’s quite hilarious: the police thought so too. According to Brady.. “You should have heard the garda laughing when they saw the video,” said Brady. “They were in stitches. Credit to them they were straight out when we called and found the guy within minutes.” Note: no guns were employed in detaining the suspect. It’s Ireland, not Missouri.
Brady describes the crime as seen in the video: “At first he throws a small stone at the windscreen without success; he tries again with the same stone and still nothing happens,: Reported Brady. “At that stage he decides to have a go at my better half’s car which was parked close by and manages to break a window and gets inside before cleaning out the glove compartment.” The would-be thief is still determined to get into the Mercedes, Brady reports the thief can be seen walking down a lane, and returning with a concrete block. “Now fair play to him he gives it a right go” Brady describes the knock-out punch. “He takes a run-up and really lashes it at the windscreen, but unfortunately for him it rebounds and smashes him in the face, lifting him up into the air and laying him flat out.”
“I’ll give him this — he was determined, he had three separate goes at it.” Describing the damage, Brady says,
“He got some smack when the brick rebounded back into his gob,” said Mr Brady.
Well stated Mr. Brady.
Mercedes should really use this brief clip as an advertisement. The cars are notoriously well built. This one not only sounds an alarm at intruders, but repels them quite efficiently as well.