Criminal minds(less)

 So, remember that part in "Goodfellas" where Jimmy Conway, Henry Hill and the gang pull off the famous Lufthansa heist out at JFK International Airport? 

(And don't say, "I've never seen 'Goodfellas'." If you've never seen "Goodfellas", you are no true Blobophile, and I will politely ask you to leave.)

Anyway, remember what happens next?

One of Jimmy's crew shows up at a Christmas party driving a brand new Cadillac. Jimmy goes ballistic, because he specifically told everyone to lay low and not make any conspicuous purchases -- like, you know, a brand new Cadillac.

So Jimmy has the guy whacked. And for good measure, he has the rest of the Lufthansa thieves whacked in an eliminating-loose-ends sort of deal.

I'm thinking maybe whoever's running the gang of Chilean burglars who've been targeting famous athletes recently wishes he'd followed Jimmy's lead.

This is because the feds have collared three of the seven members of the burglary ring because, like the poor sap with the Cadillac, they couldn't keep their good fortune to themselves. After stealing watches and other jewelry from the homes of, among others, NFL stars Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Joe Burrow and Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis Jr., they took selfies of one another with items from the Portis heist.

I guess they figured none of the images would ever find its way into the Great Interwhosis Universe, even though they almost always do. Which means these geniuses not only provided the authorities with photos of the items the athletes in question had identified as missing, they put them on and mugged for the camera with their bare faces hanging out.

You gotta wonder how that thought process went. Assuming there actually was a thought process.

"Hey, guys, check it out! Imma gonna take a selfie wearing one of the NBA guy's watches!"

"Cool! Me, too!"

"Think we should wear masks or something to, you know, conceal our identities?"

"Nah, man, what for? It's not like we're gonna show these to the cops or anything. I mean, that would just be stupid."

Yeah, well ...

The odd thing about this is up until the selfie-fest, the burglars had been quite professional about the whole thing. They staked out their targets to determine security patterns. They used burner phones. They dispatched different individuals to rent cars and places to stay to make their movements harder to track, and pawned the watches, rings, gold chains et al for cash using using launderers well removed from the crime scenes.

And then ...

And then, "Hey, world, look at this watch I'm wearing!"

Yeesh. Jimmy Conway woulda had 'em hanging from a meat hook in a refrigerated truck for sure.