Dear Ann Landers,
I would like to contribute an item for your stupid-crook collection. This appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune. -- June in Calif.

Dear June,
It's incredible, all right. Thank you for sending it on. The story was reported by Joe Hughes. Here it is: Two suspected shoplifters were arrested when they returned to the store where the theft occurred and asked for a shopping bag, police said. A clerk who saw two men taking merchandise without paying for it chased them out of the store at about 8 p.m. But the clerk lost track of the men and returned to the store to call 911. "While he was on the phone, the two suspects returned to the store and demanded a bag for their loot," said a San Diego police spokesperson. Two officers were dispatched to the store and saw the suspects outside. The suspects were taken into custody on suspicion of petty theft and burglary.