Thursday, May 27, 2010

German bank robbers use too much explosive

Robbers in Germany appear to have misjudged the amount of explosives needed to rob a rural bank in a village called Malliss after the entire building was reduced to rubble, police said.

No one was hurt in the explosion overnight in the village near Schwerin in northern Germany but flying debris damaged nearby buildings and parked cars and 55 firemen were needed to make the area safe.



The discovery of a burning vehicle nearby raised suspicions that the robbers had intended to make off with the bank's cash dispenser but when the van caught fire too they left empty-handed.

"Preliminary investigations indicate that no cash was taken," police said in a statement. The building also contained other shops and the road next to the site had to be closed for several hours following the attempted robbery on Monday night.

8 comments:

Mine is a Gin said...

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

(Sorry, but it had to be said)

2ldmoe said...

happened over here (belgium) as well last year, the two guys ("robbers") died - hu hu/ i think they "won" the darwin award for it as well : "posthumous" recognition there
(or is that "posthumourous" from the darwin awarders ????)

annemarie said...

Ha
Thats the first thought that came into my head too

Arbroath said...

Hahaha!

Arbroath said...

Heh!

Foreigner1 said...

Those guys -just like the Belgian ones- read to much comics and saw to much cartoons and took them literally...

2ldmoe said...

i'd think : if they knew how to read, they should rather have read some manuals on their explosives
:-D

rikster said...

"Mine is a gin"... That was a very good impression of Michael Caine.