It was an amazingly asshole-free week in Philadelphia news. For a little while there, it was looking like we weren't even going to be able to find an Asshole of the Week. Fortunately, when all else seemed lost, a couple dumb criminals saved the day for us. Not that these two women were dumber than your average petty criminal, but the circumstances around their arrest are just too glorious to resist calling them out.

The two women were attempting to pass off a phony check at the Bank of America at the corner of 16th and JFK. A call went out to the police about it, and who happened to be in the area to make the arrest? Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. It's nice to know that the city's top cop isn't so removed from day-to-day police work that he's above making a common arrest. There were two things that we really enjoyed about the story. First, at least one of the women clearly had no clue who Ramsey was, and she said to the Commish, "Yo dawg, don't touch me," as he gave her a pat-down. The second funny thing about the ordeal was the sham story the women were using to try and get the $4,900 check cashed. According to Officer Christopher Frazier, Commissioner Ramsey's driver, one of the women was "trying to convince [the bank employees] that she worked construction and got four months' pay." We doubt they're up to date on their union dues.

So, for managing to get themselves busted by Philly's top cop, and for using a not even kind-of plausible story to try and pass a bad check, the two (unnamed) women who tried to put one over on one of the local Bank of Americas are our Assholes of the Week.

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