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(Nov. 4) Two violent felons who escaped from a maximum-security prison — hiding on a trash truck — stopped for pizza, and were caught.

Johnny Brewer, a convicted murderer, and Jimmy Causey, a convicted kidnapper, had been on the loose since Tuesday, [Nov. 1]. [...]
In 2004, Causey, 35, was convicted of holding Columbia attorney Jack Swerling and his family at gunpoint in their home in 2002. Brewer, 39, was convicted in 1999 for strangling his sister-in-law, Kelly Burbage, in 1994.

Judie Trainer said in a phone interview that she had her husband call authorities after she delivered the men a pizza at the Palms Motel.

"Something ain't right. Something about the delivery that didn't make sense to me," Trainer said.

The caller said he'd be showering, so Trainer should leave the pizza on the bed, pick up money from the table, and go, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.

But from the hallway, Trainer could see there wasn't enough cash. She waited, and somebody finally handed her another five dollars through the partially open door.

"He never did let me see him. But he wanted me to come into the room and something told me, 'No, you don't do them kind of things,'" she said.

Pat Smith, a maid at the motel, said Causey told the clerk when he checked in Tuesday night that his identification was in his car, and that the car had been towed.
"He was real friendly," she said. [...]

The pair have now learned a valuable lesson, says [Officer] Strassmann: Don't short-change the pizza deliverywoman.

Well, I guess if they were geniuses with good impulse control and an ability to delay gratification, they wouldn't have been convicted felons in the first place, but it's amazing how many criminals get caught for stupid stuff...

Writing your bank hold-up note on the back of a deposit slip that you've filled out...
Making your getaway from a bank job in a van with your name and business address painted on the side...
Getting stopped after blowing up a federal building and killing over 130 people, including children, because you didn't put license plates on your getaway car...