Hiarcut Poses Problem For Drunken Thief

[matcom]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - An attempt by a German thief to change his appearance after a robbery backfired Monday when a hairdresser tipped off the police.

German police said in a statement Tuesday they had detained a man and his 23-year-old female accomplice on suspicion of robbing a store in the Berlin suburb of Spandau and attacking the 59-year-old shop assistant.

"Afterwards they both fled with their loot to a nearby hairdressers. The extremely drunk 24-year-old man cut his own hair there, boasted about his crime and then left the hairdressers together with his accomplice," the statement said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040106/od_nm/crime_germany_haircut_dc

[Kellanved]

1. wow

I'm amazed how local stories end up in the world-press. Now, if that would happen with important news...

The one error is that Spandau is a district, not a suburb.


There even there a few other "interesting" Burglars:
- an unemployed cook, who broke into a Hamburg restaurant to make his Christmas dinner. http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2003/12/27/245517.html
- a burglar who decided that the bed was better than the loot after all. Trouble was: the bed was occupied by the house owner and his wife. http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=3235

[LynneSin]

2. Spellling Haircut poses problem for Matcom

:D