Lesson number one for the successful burglar: Don't break into a business when two police officers are watching you.

Lesson number two: Don't do anything criminal when there is a nice blanket of fresh snow to perfectly preserve your footprints.

Lesson number three: Don't tell the police you can't get out of the car because your seat belt is broken. That won't work. And then you'll have to buy a new seat belt.

Reporter Meghann Cuniff has a little something on a man who did not know those three things before, but he knows them now.

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