Rubbish robber

We all make mistakes, but a 58-year-old would-be bank robber in Saitama Prefecture made a couple of behemothic blunders during his fatally flawed get rich quick plan.

The floundering fella’s first faux pas was his complete lack of planning, which became immediately obvious when he asked a confounded cashier, “Any idea how you rob a bank?” Now whilst well versed on general bank matters and the complexities of ATM money transfers, the branch employee was at a loss in regards to larceny, and so referred the request to another member of staff; this quick thinking individual gently escorting the middle-aged man out of the bank, quite possibly with a comforting yet slightly condescending arm around his shoulders.

To complete the humiliation, the hapless robber’s second slip up was his basic lack of knife know-how, as the presence of an unsheathed weapon in his pocket became apparent due to a bloodstain on his trousers. One of the arresting officers confirming this by almost sympathetically saying, “He didn’t brandish the knife at anyone … but he injured himself in the leg.”