Today's winner comes from Germany.
A man who tried to hold up a bank that closed 17 years ago has been jailed for seven years, a court said, in what the Bild daily called Friday the case of "Germany's dumbest bank robber."
The regional court in the western city of Osnabrück said the defendant, identified only as 57-year-old Siegfried K., arrived at the bank branch, now equipped only with cash machines, with a toy gun in May.
He seized a female "hostage" in the lobby of the building to demand a €10,000 ($13,483) ransom from bank employees.
"This plan failed however due to the fact that the building has not held a bank for more than a decade but rather a physiotherapy practice," the court said in a statement.
Bild said the bank had moved out 17 years ago.
There's more at the link.
Holding up a bank that hasn't been a bank for seventeen years? That takes a special kind of doofidity, if you ask me!
Peter
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It pays to do your homework if you are going to undertake an important mission. You can never have enough information. :)
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