Married couple robs mafia hangouts...predictably end up dead.

[transplant99]

This married couple was poking the rabid bear for a living. Really really dumb idea.

Thomas and Rosemarie Uva were not exactly criminal geniuses.
The couple liked to rob Mafia-run social clubs in Little Italy and elsewhere around the city, which, as just about everyone knows, is a really good way to get killed.

They even had the audacity to force mobsters to drop their pants as they swiped their cash and jewelry and cleaned out their card games.

The holdups proved predictably hazardous: The Uvas got whacked on Christmas Eve 1992.

Fifteen years later, the story of the bandits who made the stupid mistake of stealing from the mob is playing out at the trial of the man accused of murdering them, a reputed Gambino crime family captain named Dominick "Skinny Dom" Pizzonia.

Seriously...how did they think this may be a good idea?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/04/mo....ap/index.html

[HelloHockeyFans]

Definitely just like the movies! Reminds me of The Sopranos when Jackie Jr. was clipped for robbing a high-stakes game.

Also, smaller scale no doubt, but in Vancouver, about 4-5 years ago, for about 10-11 months, the new crime wave was criminals robbing known marijuana grow-ops. Same line of thought, I would imagine.

Go in somewhere with a group of heavily armed fellas, take the money... take the plants. What are they gonna do, call the cops?

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans

Go in somewhere with a group of heavily armed fellas, take the money... take the plants. What are they gonna do, call the cops?

Yup.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2717444

[HelloHockeyFans]

Originally Posted by Snakeeye

Yup.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2717444

The victim was booked into Sedgwick County jail on several charges, including possession with the intent to sell drug.

The thief has not been found.



Candidate for dumb criminal shows!

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by transplant99

This married couple was poking the rabid bear for a living. Really really dumb idea.



Seriously...how did they think this may be a good idea?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/04/mo....ap/index.html

Well, they were right about one thing . . . . . the mobsters didn't report them to the cops.

Cowperson

[Flashpoint]

Dude...

is that Borat?!?

[Rhettzky]

Wow, worst mob boss name ever. "Dominick 'Skinny Dom' Pizzonia", Sounds like something made up out of a Naked Gun movie.