Crook get shot in the ass...trying to rob a cop bar.

There's stupid, and then there's terminally stupid.

Trying to rob a known cop bar is definitely in the latter category, but it sure didn't stop two bozos in St. Louis from trying.

It happened around midnight at the Pooh’s Corner Bar at Virginia and I-55. Police say two men walked in to rob the place but several off-duty police officers were inside.

Sometime during the robbery attempt, shots were fired and one of the suspects was hit in the buttocks. He was caught at the scene, but the other man ran away. Police caught him a short time later.

Residents say it's pretty common knowledge that this is a cop hangout, so it's probably not the bar robbers want to target.

If the wounded guy had died, he'd be a shoo-in for the 2008 Darwin Awards...but he's apparently such a screw-up that he couldn't even get that right. Betcha that these two are going to be the hit of the cellblock when they get to prison. Convicts have as little respect for stupid as anyone else.