Just You Try And Catch Me

In a textbook example of pride going before a fall, it was the ego of the perpetrator of a successful series of bank robberies that managed to land him in prison. After watching countless news stories reporting how baffled the police were by the identity of the robber, he called a local police station to brag that they would never catch him. He went on at some length about his finely developed criminal skills, and his experience in evading detection. His boasts were somewhat undermined, however, by the fact that he forgot to block his number, which the police were easily able to trace and use to track him down. When they caught up with him a few hours later, he was on the telephone to another police station, making yet more proud boasts!

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