Another dumber-than-dumb moment from the Land of the World's Stupidest Criminals:

Firefighters were summoned to a trailer home to put out a blaze that started in a mattress outdoors and spread to the home. The couple reported that they were trying to rid the mattress of bedbugs by covering it with a plastic sheet, then heating it with a heat lamp. The mattress caught on fire, and it touched the trailer.

Police routinely accompany firefighters to the scene. When police arrived, they checked the trailer's license plates and determined it had been stolen a week earlier. The couple were arrested and charged with grand theft.