Dumb or just plain stupid?

Kind of old but still hilarious -

October 22, 2005 - 8:00AM

Anthony Prince (top photo) and Luke Carroll show off their ill-gotten gains.

US prosecutors have released photos of two Australian bank robbers dubbed Dumb and Dumber, who are seen posing for the camera while holding stacks of bills.

Anthony Prince, 20, and Luke Carroll, 19, were sentenced to prison last month after pleading guilty to robbing a bank. The men, who were working at a Vail ski shop, were given the nickname by the Australian media because of a string of clues they left behind that led to their capture the next day.

In the photos, Prince grins into the camera with $US20 ($A26) bills fanned out in each hand. Carroll has his lips pursed while clutching a stack of bills and holding more in his other hand, spread out in a fan.

Witnesses said the masked robbers had distinct accents and wore badges similar to ones issued by Prince and Carroll's employer. The robbers also used their ski passes to board a chairlift near the bank within minutes of the robbery.

Investigators distributed flyers with Carroll and Prince's photos from a previous arrest on vandalism charges. An officer at the Denver airport arrested them the next day after recognizing them from the flyer and their distinctive accents. Authorities said they had tried to buy one-way tickets to Mexico.

Prince was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and Carroll to five years - a longer term because authorities said he threw a bank teller to the ground. More at the Sydney Morning Herald.