Would-be robber asks bank how to do it (D'Oh!)

Reuters ^ | Thu Jun 1, 2006 9:03am ET

[sully777]

TOKYO (Reuters) - A would-be Japanese bank robber asked staff how he should carry out the crime before meekly obeying a request to leave and then accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying.

The 58-year-old unemployed man went into a branch of the Saitama Resona Bank in the town of Kumagaya, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday, intending to rob it, a police spokesman said.

According to local media reports the man first asked a bank teller, "Any idea how you rob a bank?" The teller alerted another member of staff, who asked the man to leave.

"He left quietly when asked to," the police spokesman said.

However, the staff member escorting the man out of the bank noticed the knife sticking out of his pocket and a bloodstain on his trousers.

Police arrested the man for illegal possession of a weapon.

"He didn't brandish the knife at anyone ... but he injured himself in the leg," the police spokesman said.

[sully777]

Police photograph robber's knife as evidence during botched bank robbery.

[sully777]

PING

[kinoxi]

funny stuff. :)

[Slings and Arrows]

Police arrested the man for illegal possession of a weapon.

He's already been punished: A life sentence of Stupid.

[King Prout]

no one ever got poor by betting that criminals tend to be stupid.

[jazusamo]

Sounds like something that should have happened in Mayberry with Barney the arresting officer.

[coconutt2000]

58 years old, unemployed... stabbed himself with his own knife... not in a struggle either.

I wonder if Darwin's survival of the fittest was too late, and this guy has offspring running around.

[sully777]

This Barney?

[sully777]

You never hear about the smart ones.

[jazusamo]

That's close enough...LOL

[King Prout]

politicians.

[decal]

I dunno, maybe I'm reading between the lines too much here.

This is a "58-year-old unemployed man."

Sounds like someone who just got laid off from his "guaranteed for a lifetime" job and has no idea what to do now.

[sully777]

ping

[Darkwolf377]

A would-be Japanese bank robber asked staff how he should carry out the crime before meekly obeying a request to leave and then accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying.

Looks like Sean Penn's fallen on hard times.

[sully777]

Looks like Sean Penn's fallen on hard times.

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Remembering New Orleans fondly hehehehe...

[rzeznikj at stout]

Thanks for the ping...8^)

[MrCruncher]

Sean Penn is a 58-year-old Japanese man?

I thought he was a he was a former US citizen who decided to become a Saddamite.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Hey! Something Americans are definitely better than the Japanese at!

[Darkwolf377]

Joke.

[Darkwolf377]

Yeah, he seems to have trouble with weapons.