The Knuckleheads of the Day award

Today's winners are Artemio Castillo and Ernesto Garcia. They stole a gas station employee's car. An hour later they came back to the same station, to gas it up!

TGIF/Open Post Jo's Cafe and Mudville Gazette

PENSACOLA · If you're going to steal a gas station employee's car, don't come back an hour later to get a fill-up.Investigators say that bit of logic escaped Artemio Castillo and Ernesto Garcia, who were arrested Tuesday night near the Parade gas station.

Employee Pam Pease, 49, was sweeping the parking area when she noticed a familiar car pull up to pump No. 7.It was her blue 1994 Ford Escort with a missing hubcap. She had reported it stolen less than an hour earlier.

"It just blew my mind, but there they were," Pease said. "I'm glad it was low on gas."Another attendant, Vince Nguyen, recognized suspects Castillo, 49, and Garcia, 41, as the men who had asked him for a ride to Mississippi as he arrived at work shortly before Pease noticed her car was missing.

Nguyen asked the men in Spanish why they had returned and they replied that they needed gas, Pease said. Other employees called 911. The suspects fled on foot and Nguyen followed them through a back alley, Pease said.