Least competent criminals

• In May, Damion Mosher, 18, of Lake Luzerne, N.Y., became the

most recent person to injure himself by needing to find out if putting

a bullet into a vise and hitting it with a screwdriver would

cause it to fire. (It would; he was slightly wounded.)

• Two men and a woman were among the recent wave of people trying to cash in on the high price of copper scrap metal when they broke into an abandoned nursing home in

Gainesville, Ga., in July. However, they had missed the sign at

the entrance announcing that the building had recently been converted into a training facility and kennel for police dogs, and they were quickly sicced on and arrested. ¦