Sometimes criminals are so dumb that they THINK they’re committing a crime, when they aren’t, but they STILL get arrested. (???)
An Italian man bought a Rolex watch from an acquaintance, but then he started thinking it was a FAKE. So he tried desperately to offload it.
He took it to a shop in Singapore, and sold it for around $75,000. Instead of taking cash, he accepted a trade of three other watches that were worth the equivalent of $75K.
Then, he tried to book a flight to get out of dodge before anyone found out.
In a very bizarre twist, the “fake” Rolex he sold DID turn out to be real, so the man’s crime was called an “impossible attempt”, that’s when a person intends to commit a crime, and takes steps towards it, but the offense can’t actually be completed “due to physical impossibilities.” Weird, right?
One report compares it to pick-pocketing, an empty pocket.
Well, you can’t get away with it, even with a slap on the wrist, not in Singapore. They’re NOT messing around.
The Italian man was tracked down before he left the country, and arrested.
He pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to cheat, as well as a second charge of using a doctored passport, which he provided during the sale. He was sentenced to seven months in jail.
