How Police Used Toilet Paper to Find a Pizza Shop Robber

You’ve probably heard the expression, “You don’t shit where you eat.” Well, this stupid robber should have kept his toilet paper out of a pizza shop, because it landed him in jail.

According to CBS Pittsburgh, while attempting to rob Michael Maria’s Pizza Shop in Uniontown, PA, Eric Frey wrote a nifty little note on a piece of toilet paper that read:

“I have a gun. Give me $300.” 

Now that’s a very specific amount to ask for, so the man walked in with a very meticulous plan. However, he failed to see that very piece of toilet paper would be his unraveling.

The shop’s employee hit the panic button and police actually arrived before the robber could escape the scene.

Being ever-so-clever, the robber told police that some bearded dude with a gun flagged him down in a nearby alley and forced him to rob the pizza shop.

He might have gotten away with it, except the police searched his apartment and found that the idiot left out a brand new roll of toilet paper, which still had the pen engravings from the threatening note he used at the pizza shop.

According to Trib Live, in a desperate last-ditch effort, Frey saw a group of men walking down the street and told the police, “That’s them!” The men were questioned, but police determined they were not involved in the robbery.

Police say they found 91 grams of marijuana, syringes and spoons with drug residue on them in Frey’s apartment, so he seems pretty screwed either way.

After this, he’ll probably never look at toilet paper, or pizza, the same way again.

h/t+PicThx CBS Pittsburgh