5 Cheaters Who Got Caught in the Dumbest Ways

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Both crime and adultery require a certain amount of skill, a solid helping of luck and a whole lot of cunning. Some people successfully cultivate all three. They know how to hide their activities and are excellent liars. These are the people who manage to pull off bank heists, robberies, years long con man jobs and still disappear into the night as a free man. These are the Moriartys of the modern era.

Then, there are the dumb criminals and the dumb cheaters. They are the ones who managed to strike out on luck, skill and cunning. They are the ones that held up a restaurant that was throwing a retirement party for a bunch of FBI agents and the ones that tried to flee the scene of a crime by running through the woods while wearing light-up shoes.

Cheaters run a similar gamut. Some have the same combination of luck, skill and cunning that makes for great criminals. These are the adulterers who successfully coordinate three different lovers, a spouse, two kids and a full time job without anyone involved being aware of how badly they are being betrayed. Others have about as much sense as the guy who tried to rob a bank while dressed as a potted plant. Here are five cheaters who got caught in the dumbest ways.

Is that our cat?

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It takes a special kind of stupid to think that it is a great idea to post pictures of your mistress standing in your house to Instagram. That, however, is exactly what one man did. When his 19 year old mistress was visiting, he took pictures of her sitting in he and his wife’s apartment. That in and of itself might not have gotten him caught, apartments can look very similar after all, but he decided to take it one step further. He took pictures of his mistress wearing his wife’s clothing and posing with he and his wife’s cat. Unsurprisingly, his wife recognized the combination of apartment, clothing and cat. Equally unsurprising, the man found it impossible to explain away, and his wife moved out. How exactly he expected to get away with that one is a complete mystery. Hopefully, the wife took the cat when she left.

She’s right behind me.

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Some cheaters have great schemes and clever plans but get foiled by truly rotten luck. Such was the case with one man who decided to try and get a woman named Anna to be the other woman. He texted her and called her “sexy.” She assumed at first that he was texting her by mistake and had meant to message his girlfriend. Had that been what happened, this would have been an embarrassing but innocent mistake. Instead, he confirmed that his texts were meant for Anna not his girlfriend. He promised that he would not “tell if you don’t tell.” He must have thought he was going to have a girlfriend and piece on the side since Anna had not shut him down immediately. He actually had truly rotten luck however. After he asked Anna not to tell, she dropped the bomb on him. “I don’t have to tell. [Your girlfriend] is reading this over my shoulder.”

Jared–No, I mean James!

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Texting can get cheaters into quite a bit of trouble. Everyone has heard of the stories where adulterers leave their phones on the bedside table, and their spouse sees the dozens of sexts they have been exchanging with their lover. Others, however, manage to make an even more foolish mistake: they do not check to see who they are texting. Such was the case of the confusion of James and Jared. A woman sent a text to Jared to see if he was ready for their hookup. She told him that she wanted him “so bad” and that she would “break up with [her boyfriend] James next week.” Whether or not that dedication would have made Jared run for the hills or not will never be known because she was not texting Jared. She was texting James.

Funny seeing you here.

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The world really can be a very small place. It is impossible to know who you are going to run into while out. Some people run into old high school friends at the grocery store or encounter a former teacher at the movie theater. Other people reconnect with the kids they used to babysit when they are having dinner and get to see their former charges all grown up. Still others run into their boyfriend at a strip club.

One woman decided to go check out some eye candy and told her boyfriend that she was sick when he texted her. He commented that he “didn’t know hot guys in strip clubs were the new cure for the common cold.” When she accused him of being drunk, he sent her the last text she wanted to receive. “Look behind you.”

I never did that.

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It is not unusual for people to take to Facebook to share the touching little gestures their significant other has made recently. Many people post pictures of the comfort meal their spouse made for them after a long week or the concert tickets their significant other bought to celebrate their anniversary. Others share stories of love notes taped to the fridge or hot coffee waiting for them when they got out of bed. People enjoy both sharing and reading these little anecdotes. Some cheaters, however, forget to keep straight which lover did what. Such was the case of a woman who proudly posted that she had a fabulous boyfriend who “made [her] breakfast in bed yesterday.” Unfortunately, she forgot which boyfriend made breakfast. The “official” boyfriend commented that he did not make breakfast. Naturally, this did not end well.