Watch: Dumb car thief knocks himself out after brick bounces off car
The man in question is seen lurking around a white Mercedes in Ireland before he tries to break into the car by throwing the stone at the window of the passenger door.
There are car thieves who are smart and are straight out of the Nicholas Cage-Angelina Jolie movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" and then there are halfwit car thieves who can't do the one job they want to do properly.
While the former get away with the best cars, the latter end up with nothing.
And now a CCTV camera has caught on tape a car thief who can possibly be labelled the "dumbest car thief of all times".
The man in question is seen lurking around a white Mercedes in Ireland before he tries to break into the car by throwing the stone at the window of the passenger door. (SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO)
When the stone just bounces off the window, he tries again but with the same result.
Not willing to give up while he's still standing on his feet, he walks around to the other side of the car where he finds a brick and tries to smash in the driver's window with the brick.
The window doesn't break. Instead the brick bounces off the window and hits the would-be car thief in his head knocking him out.
The owner of the car arrived soon after this and found the man lying in blood. "When I saw him, he was lying there stone cold on the ground and his face was in ribbons," the car owner Gerry Brady told a newspaper.
When the would-be thief tried to blackmail Brady, he called the police. When the police saw the footage from the CCTV, they couldn't stop laughing. "You should have heard them laughing when they saw the video. They were in stitches," Brady said.
The police are now looking for the man. Maybe the next time the thief tries to break into a car, he would be better prepared and would have taken some classes on how to break into car properly.