Stealing from vending machines is a felony, two local men find out

Two Kansas City-area men have positioned themselves as front-runners for committing the dumbest crime of the year. Oren Gene Gamble Sr. and Vernon Neill Gibson were arrested in Memphis, Missouri, for stealing cash out of gas-station vending machines.

According to The Memphis Democrat, the town’s police chief and a “private citizen” were staking out the machines at an MFA station Sunday night when they observed Gamble and Gibson (great name for a criminal duo; both 54 years old) help themselves to the cash in two machines. The paper reports that a string of such thefts has been plaguing the town of about 2,000 since last October.