Fumbling Man Asks Bank How To Rob It

A would-be Japanese bank robber asked staff how he should carry out the crime before meekly obeying a request to leave and then accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying.

The 58-year-old unemployed man went into a branch of the Saitama Resona Bank in the town of Kumagaya, north of Tokyo intending to rob it.

He first asked a bank teller, "Any idea how you rob a bank?" The teller alerted another member of staff, who asked the man to leave.

"He left quietly when asked to", a police spokesman said.

But as a staff member was escorting the man out of the bank he noticed the knife sticking out of his pocket and a bloodstain on his trousers.

"He didn't brandish the knife at anyone... but he injured himself in the leg", a police spokesman said so they arrested him for illegal possession of a weapon.

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