SOME UNSKILLED BURGLARS IN MALLISS, Germany near Berlin, failed to properly calculate the amount of explosives needed to blow the door off of an ATM at 2 am Tuesday.
Instead of blasting their way into the money cache, they demolished the entire bank branch, bringing the roof down on the ATM preventing them from getting to it. It also set their getaway car on fire forcing them to literally beat feet out of the neighborhood that was shaken by the explosion.
The ATM, seen in the foreground, was the only thing in the bank
that wasn’t destroyed. The crooks left without any money.
Flying debris damaged several nearby buildings and parked cars. At least 55 firefighters arrived to make the area safe and look for any victims.
A local police spokesman said: “They really botched this one. We are just so lucky at the timing and the fact that no-one lived in this largely commercial area. Initial examinations indicate a gas bomb of approximately ten times the amount of power needed to open up the cash machine. As it was they brought the roof down upon it, thus preventing them from getting to it or stealing money from it.”
The UK Daily Mail has MORE.
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