Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:00:05 AM CET
Germany's "dumbest criminal" jailed
A German bank robber who forgot to cut open eye slits in his mask and lifted it up to demand money has been convicted and sentenced to four years in jail, state prosecutors in Giessen say. The robber, dubbed "Germany's dumbest criminal" by Bild newspaper, had entered a bank in the western town with a burlap bag over his head. Bumping into bank customers on his way to the teller, he pulled out a plastic knife and a toy pistol.
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