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A New York man is likely to do jail time—for his efforts to avoid doing jail time—after his attempts to fake his own death promptly blew up in his face.

25-year-old Robert Berger of Huntington, New York, seems likely to go into the annals of hilariously inept criminals for the stunt he attempted to pull. To avoid pending jail sentences for possession of a stolen Lexus and attempted grand larceny of a truck, Berger forged a Mercer County, New Jersey death certificate for his supposed death by suicide.