Muggers leave their pictures behind in their cell phone.

Two German teenagers joined the massed ranks of the criminally incompetent, when they robbed a girl but accidentally left their own pictures behind for police on a discarded mobile phone.

After stealing a 15-year-old’s shoes, money and mobile phone, the two older girls – not quite understanding the nature of robberym – gave her an old mobile phone, police in the western city of Bochum said on Wednesday.

But the two 17-year-olds had forgotten the phone had their own photos, striking smiley poses, which police published online on Tuesday in an effort to find the culprits.

The two muggers turned themselves in almost simultaneously when the pictures appeared on the evening news.

‘One girl was brought down by her father after he saw her on the television,’ said police spokesman Frank Plewka.

‘Today the pictures were in the papers, so the father’s phone has been ringing all day, because everyone recognized them.’

Source: Metro