South Africa's Dumbest Criminal

[Baixo Astral]

... and possibly the world's

[katelin]

I LOL'd

[Ace Diamond]

Wait, you can be arrested for lying under oath without being under oath?

hmm.

Still that's pretty damn dumb of that guy.

[Mister Pigwell]

I'm waiting to figured out WHY he did this...

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

aodpilot said:

Wait, you can be arrested for lying under oath without being under oath?

hmm.

Still that's pretty damn dumb of that guy.

You can be charged with filing a false police report, especially if you know it's false. Obviously, this guy was just trying to get some group of people arrested and made up a story. Too bad he's a total moron.

[somedensefish]

i thought it was funny to have this light-hearted "dumb criminal" story, then end it with this:

"South Africa's reputation has long been tarnished by the high levels of crime, often accompanied by extreme violence involving guns."

[Psy]

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[Ace Diamond]

evilmasterbetty said:

aodpilot said:

Wait, you can be arrested for lying under oath without being under oath?

hmm.

Still that's pretty damn dumb of that guy.

You can be charged with filing a false police report, especially if you know it's false. Obviously, this guy was just trying to get some group of people arrested and made up a story. Too bad he's a total moron.

Then the crime is filing a false police report, and not perjury. Perjury is explicitly lying under oath. I'm not saying he's innocent, I'm just saying "perjury" is not the right word here.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

aodpilot said:

evilmasterbetty said:

You can be charged with filing a false police report, especially if you know it's false. Obviously, this guy was just trying to get some group of people arrested and made up a story. Too bad he's a total moron.

Then the crime is filing a false police report, and not perjury. Perjury is explicitly lying under oath. I'm not saying he's innocent, I'm just saying "perjury" is not the right word here.

In America. In South Africa, I'm not sure, although if i had to guess then you're right. I should have clarified what I meant. I didn't mean to imply you were wrong, just that it is a crime to falsely report a crime.

[Ace Diamond]

evilmasterbetty said:

aodpilot said:

Then the crime is filing a false police report, and not perjury. Perjury is explicitly lying under oath. I'm not saying he's innocent, I'm just saying "perjury" is not the right word here.

In America. In South Africa, I'm not sure, although if i had to guess then you're right. I should have clarified what I meant. I didn't mean to imply you were wrong, just that it is a crime to falsely report a crime.

Oh I know it's a crime to falsely report one, I was just questioning word usage as I said.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

aodpilot said:

evilmasterbetty said:

In America. In South Africa, I'm not sure, although if i had to guess then you're right. I should have clarified what I meant. I didn't mean to imply you were wrong, just that it is a crime to falsely report a crime.

Oh I know it's a crime to falsely report one, I was just questioning word usage as I said.

Ok that's fair. They probably used the wrong term unless South Africa has that much different of a system, which i doubt because it should be based on British Common Law.

I'm tired and just went through a 2 hour properties class. Wasn't all into reading.