The headline for this one pretty much says it all: Background check KO’s police applicant.
Oliver Shea Wright decided he wanted to become a police officer. So he submitted his application to the Newport News, VA police department.
The police department conducted the background check that’s a routine part of their hiring process. It turned out that Wright was wanted for a crime he allegedly committed last summer. The police arrested Wright instead of hiring him.
I’m sharing this with you for its humor value. You would think that the last place someone who’s wanted for a crime would try to go to work would be the police department. But people can be stupid or brazen. Sometimes I can’t figure out which it is.
If there’s a lesson here, it’s that you have to check on the people who come to you and apply for work or apply to rent an apartment. People with really awful pasts will try to do that. People with evil intent will try to do that. Since you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys just by looking, you better do those background checks.