A strange thing happened in Fayetteville N.C. recently. A man charged with robbing a bank – his second bank robbery since 2005 – attempted to show the police his loot but wasn’t able to because he discovered that he’d been robbed.

Joseph Thomas Mulkerin was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel. He was charged with common law robbery of $2,179. He’d robbed the Wachovia branch on Green street.

He’d only just been released from prison on January 11th after serving his sentence for robbing the same bank in 2005. That time he’d robbed the bank of $1,098.

When he was captured he took the police to his motel room to show the officers the money but discovered that some was already missing. Police investigated and later charged the motel’s maintenance man David Mims with breaking and entering and stealing some of the already stolen cash.

I don’t know – sounds like we have two dumb criminals in this story. The thief who stupidly robbed the same bank with little success twice, and the motel maintenance man who only stole some of the cash. Come on man, if you’re going to steal it take it all.