November 27th, 2011 by admin

The Weiner Journal reported this item last Monday: a prospective bank robber was foiled in an attempt to rob the Landeskbank-Hypothekenbank in Vienna when he was directed to a different counter.

The clerk he approached told him that she did not ‘deal with those types of queries’.

There was a big queue for the next cashier so the man, who was holding a silver box that he claimed was a bomb, fled before repeating his request.

Clerk Maria Bertel said, ‘He came up to me wearing his scarf wrapped high around his face and said he wanted money. I said I didn’t deal with money here and told him to go to the next counter.

‘It was only afterwards I realised he was trying to rob the bank. We called the police, but by the time they came he had run off.’