The answer to ALL crime.

I don't care how fearless you are, how 'gangsta' you are...there's always one person who you're afraid of.

It doesn't matter if you don't give a crap what the police think, whether someone pushing a gun in your face is as scary to you as an exceptionally cute kitten...every time someone says "I'm not afraid of anything", a little voice in the back of your head says "As long as my mum doesn't find out."

Look at the following story:

A Czech armed robber who targeted McDonald's restaurants was grabbed by the ear and marched to the police station by his mum.

Katka Zahradnikova, 44, from Prague, recognised her 20-year-old son Michal on CCTV footage screened on the local version of Crimewatch.

A police spokesman said: "He admitted he was responsible for robbing a number of the fast-food stores and put up no resistance when she marched him down here by the ear and made him give us a full statement.

"We couldn't have done it better ourselves."

That's the answer to all crime, forget the death penalty or jail time, just have the penalty for everything as "We'll tell your mum."

Crime would drop to zero in days!