I think the dumb plan comes with the territory. If you think stalking someone as a solution to a problem makes sense, chances are reasoning isn't a skill you've developed very much. You tend to need that skill if you're going to make it hard to catch you. Basically the kind of person who would come up with this kind of a solution is not the kind of person who could pull it off, and those who can pull it off tend not to come up with this kind of nonsense.