Warning: this post will appeal to your average, male ten year-old. (It may also strike a chord if you are a socially advanced eight year-old.) (Seven year-olds: sorry dudes. You should not be reading blogs, anyway.) If you are older or female, you are hereby warned.

Some criminals are not smart. Check that, most criminals are not smart. A small minority are geniuses. Fortunately, the mastermind number remains tiny. Of course, I do not personally know a single law-breaker, no smooth criminals even. (I also am not familiar with any married law-breakers, should you be curious.)

To open today’s tale, I must tell this Navy story. Engineering Duty Officers are known as EDOs. And one day, I asked one, a friend of mine, Hey, does EDO stand for Erectile Disfunction Officer? We are no longer friends. (Just kidding.)

Our first crime, some exotic drug smuggling in Los Angeles:

Cialis

Federal customs agents seized 63 pounds of a chemical used in erectile dysfunction drugs at Los Angeles International Airport.

The drug is called tadalafil, and it’s used in the generic form of Cialis.

The chemicals, worth $179,000, were seized last week.

And our second caper involves a dentist. Generally doctors of the teeth catch gum diseases and run-away cavities. One New York City dentist caught some crooks:

Dr. William Strupp

The New York Yankees’ team doctor played amateur detective to catch a couple of scatterbrained crooks and get his beloved pieces of sports memorabilia back.

Dr. William Strupp, team dentist for the Yankees since 1995, was the victim of a burglary last November that saw a number of his cherished items taken.

Strupp, 66, who fixed the late George Steinbrenner’s teeth in 1995, owns five World Series rings thanks to his work with the Bronx Bombers.

Erectile disfunction and dentistry. In the same post. We are breaking taboos. Together.