This story from the BBC reveals that a teenage burglar wrote his own name on the wall of a property he was ransacking:
Apart from writing his own name in black marker pen at the Toc H centre in Adlington, Cheshire, Addison also left his gang’s name on the wall - The Adlington Massiv!.
The teenager vandalised a Garden Birds of Britain poster by adding “R Gay”.
He then left a final message to the campsite owners - “thanks for the stay”.
Police found him after entering his name in a computer system.
Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: “This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
“There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.”
Who’d be so daft as to do something like that?
(also available as a downloadable mp3 (4.44MB, 7′45″), in case you’re into that sort of thing. If you are into that sort of thing, then I might start offering some more recordings of things…)
I saw that on BBC news just now and thought of you. Would have sent you the link if you hadn’t already read it.
At least you had the decency to clean yours off!
Hi Meg. Thank you for posting that. May I take this opportunity to say that the “Shaggy Blog Podcast” (with a further 13 beautifully read stories, including one by Anna Pickard and one by Clare Sudbery) is still available to download for £2 from http://www.lulu.com/content/901312 (most of which goes to Comic Relief if I remember correctly).
I did enjoy listening to your excellent reading of your story, and would enjoy more (but it sounds like a lot of work).
Thanks for that, Pierre - I didn’t realise it was still available.
So yes - go buy the FULL podcast from the link above!