Next time, find a hacksaw

If you're a smart person, what would be the last place you'd want to run to after being caught committing a crime? Probably a police station, right? Well, unfortunately for this guy, he's not a smart person:

A man caught breaking into a German supermarket late at night escaped despite being handcuffed to railings -- only to be arrested after he ran to a nearby police station to get the cuffs removed.

"It was stupid of him," said a police spokesman in Frankfurt Monday. "They took the cuffs off, but they kept him."

A security guard had cuffed the man and held three others after spotting the break-in. But by the time officers arrived, the man had managed to escape, police said.

Arriving at the police station, the 19-year-old told officers he had been locked up by a friend as a joke, and asked for their help. The officers at first went along with the ruse, "also laughing at the man's apparent misfortune," police said.

The police, being suspicious people by nature, didn't believe his story and got him to confess what he'd done. Who could have possibly seen that coming?

Well, everyone but him, I guess.