Dumbest Crook Of The Week

Here’s a helpful hint to criminals: if you do not wish to be arrested, it is not a great idea to post public selfies to social media.

Maybe bank robbers shouldn’t gun for Facebook likes with machismo selfies.

Brooklyn native Jules Bahler, 21, practically turned himself in to the FBI by posting a photo of himself holding the same submachine gun he allegedly wielded during a heist last week.

The young man is accused of holding up three banks in Michigan over eight days. During robberies in Pontiac, he reportedly passed notes demanding money to the tellers and netted a combined $8,300, The Smoking Gun reported.

On March 5, he uploaded the series of tough-guy selfies to Facebook. Afterward, he allegedly walked into a Chemical Bank in Bay City and “displayed what appeared to be a black sub machine gun and demanded money,” according to an arrest affidavit, obtained by the crime news site.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.