Hansel and Gretel rob convenience store

Well, not exactly. It was actually three guys in the Syracuse, NY area. But before we go on with this, what do you want to bet that these people were really, really high when they did this?

A trio of hungry burglars helped their own undoing by leaving a trail of snack wrappers after stealing six packages of instant lottery tickets from a convenience store.

"This was a combination of good police work and a stupid criminal," said Sgt. Tom Connellan, a police spokesman.

The burglars smashed a window early Wednesday at a convenience store and fled with the lottery tickets and some Little Debbie Coffee Cake snacks. Officer James Johnson followed a trail of discarded wrappers to a nearby apartment building, where he arrested the trio.

Now, I'm sure Sgt. Connellan is a fine investigator, but I'm pretty sure the trail of Little Debbie wrappers leading directly from the crime scene to these masterminds' hideout was a lot more "stupid criminal" than "good police work."

And like I said, they were probably really, really high.