Here's another goodie from my hometown, The Land of the Stupid Criminals:

Cops arrested a 49=year-old man who robbed a convenience store of a can of beer and some cookes at knifepoint, made the clerk lie on the floor, kicked him--and then left in a taxi that he had waiting for him. Cops traced him through the cabdriver and arrested him in minutes. The guy claimed he was doing it as an initiation into an outlaw biker gang.