Worst Crook In The World?

Irish police have reportedly warned an enormously unsuccessful would-be crook to go straight - before he kills himself. He's apparently that bad at his chosen profession.

The unnamed man in his 30s has been arrested three times and each heist has brought him closer to the hereafter.

Police took the man into custody and to the hospital at the weekend after he was hit by a lorry while making a getaway from a betting shop robbery, the Irish Sun reported.

He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device. When they arrived at the bank he was dangling by one leg and stuffing cash into his underpants.

As we understand it, the man has decided to give up trying to rob various establishments and is going into a much safer line of work where the rewards are much higher with far less work.

He's entering politics.