Dumbass of the Week

It didn't take long for police to capture a windshield-kicking culprit Friday night.

That's because the windshield he targeted was a Hamburg Township police cruiser - with a video camera inside.

Township Police Sgt. Jim Sanderson said he was making a routine bar check at about 11 p.m. and returned to find his vehicle damaged. He said the vehicle's video camera was in "sleep mode," but still records about two frames per second, compared to 26 frames per second at its active speed.

The video showed a man jumping on the hood of the cruiser and kicking in the windshield.

After Sanderson printed a still photo, bar patrons identified the man as a 40-year-old who had been fired from his job with the Michigan Department of Transportation earlier in the day.

The man was arrested at his home several hours later. He was charged with malicious destruction of police property, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The man was held on a $100,000 cash bond.