There's a cottage industry in making fun of dumb criminals, but every day someone else steps up with a brand new foolish way of making an ass of himself while committing a crime. In this case, a Bronx man did himself in by logging into a stolen Xbox.

Jeremiah Gilliam was apparently pretty good at breaking into homes and cars and making off with electronics. But the mistake that led to his arrest was logging in to the Xbox he had just stolen and deciding to play some online games.

As it happens, the boy he stole the Xbox from was playing on a different Xbox and saw that his own account was activated. So he told his parents. And they told the cops. And the cops tracked the IP address back to Gilliam's grandmother's house.

In the house cops found GPS units, laptops, Xboxes, Playstations and stolen credit cards. Presumably, they also found Gilliam in the midst of a round of "Halo" with no idea what the hell had just happened.