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Windsor, Ontario, 2008.
A forty year old man, Daniel Glen, planned to rob a convenience store one day.
But he didn't want to take a chance whether there were money in the cash register or not
so he called in advance.
He called the store to ask how much money was in the cash register before showing up.
Sad for him, the store clerk called the police about it and of course he ended up being arrested.
Apparently he was a suspect for another two similar incidents where the thief called ahead
to make sure the money was bagged and ready for him to take.
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In 2014, a man tried to rob a betting shop with a cucumber.
It happened in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gary Rough demanded cash from a female worker at the counter of the bookmakers.
He held a cylindrical object covered in a black sock making people think he had a gun.
The worker refused to give him the money and luckily a Det Sgt was there in the betting
shop.
He knocked the robber to the ground with one blow.
Took off the black sock and revealed that the "weapon" was just a cucumber.
The robber at first insisted that it was a joke and was a dare.
He later said: "I think it was quite stupid - I'm not a robber.
It was a laugh that went too far".
Too bad for the robber, though he found his action stupid, it was just too late as he
was sentenced to jail for 40 months.
Apparently the robber was a plumber with no outstanding issues that would need him to
seek financial gain from a robbery.
So he could give no explanation as to why he even tried to rob the bookmakers at all.
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There was a bank robber in 2008 who planned to rob a bank near its closing time.
This happened in Liberty, Pennsylvania, USA.
Christopher Allen Koch, who was 28 at the time, planned to rob the Citizens & Northern
Bank.
He parked his car nearby at around 11.40 am and sat in the car for about 20 minutes.
He got out of the car, proceded towards the bank's door, probably very hyped up as well.
But the door just wouldn't open.
Posted on the door was the bank's operation time.
Yes it was closed as he arrived 1 minute too late.
Bank employees saw his attempt and even saw his car's license plate.
Thus the police arrested him, confiscated his gun, ski mask and gloves.
All without the criminal achieving anything other than getting a charge for attempted
robbery and possession of instruments of a crime.
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Another attempted bank robbery took place in 2014.
Dane Smith, 27, didn't intend to rob the bank at first.
He went to Barclays just to change his address.
That was when he saw the money in the tills and went home.
He returned 30 minutes later wearing sunglasses with socks over his shoes as an attempt to
disguise himself.
He was holding up a bread knife to a cashier and demanded for the cash to be handed over.
The cashier refused and Smith ran away empty handed when one of the employees raised the
alarm bt pressing the panic button.
Unluckily for him, he was there 30 minutes before to change his address and had given
his full name.
So he was captured anyways and sentenced to jail for two and a half years.
Apparently he was very desperate for money at the time.
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Hannah Sabata who was 19 years old in 2012, went on a stealing spree where she robbed
a local bank, stole a car and stole some drugs.
She managed to get over $6000 from it.
What she did stupidly was she decided to record herself showing her loot and posted the video
to youtube.
So of course she got arrested and the video was used as evidence against her.