Don't they teach good lying techniques in criminal school anymore?

Dudes: If the cops find you holding two bikes with bits of their chains still attached in one hand, and a bag with a bolt cutter in the other, they're going to be a little suspicious of your claim that you thought the bikes were just discarded junk lying there in the front yard. Especially when they then notice where the fence around the yard had been cut and the smashed-in basement door of the building the bikes came from. Allegedly, of course.