Robbery Fails

A government official in Bihar was shot at by some unidentified criminals in Jehanabad last evening, the police said.

Unable to raise the required amount for the flat he purchased, a 32-year-old man on Wednesday staged a robbery of Rs 35 lakh with the help of his driver at Matunga in central Mumbai, but their trickery was detected by the police within two hours.

A bank robbery in the United States was recently thwarted after a quick-thing cashier convinced the robber into taking a seat until cops arrived to arrest him.

"This is the greatest!! What an epic fail!!" said a user.

After failing to find money, two masked thieves burnt nearly 150 important files following a break into the Lambloo branch of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Sunday, police said.

The man, dressed in red shirt and matching shoes, stopped to put on his sunglasses in an apparent bid to avoid being recognised, as seen in the clip.

Two burglars triggered a blast at an ATM centre in the Chikhali area of Pimpri-Chinchwad town in Pune district using gelatin sticks, but failed to take out any cash from the machine in the early hours of Thursday, said police.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of robbery as well as two counts of attempted robbery.

Armed with a hammer and sachets of Oral Re-hydration Solutions (ORS), a 40-year-old woman last Friday locked herself inside a bank in Meghalaya's capital city Shillong to carry out a Hollywood-style money heist.

A 40- year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rob a bank in the Meghalaya state capital after being cooped up in the building for three days, a senior police officer said.

Two senior BJP leaders, summoned in connection with the recent highway robbery of hawala money at Kodakara in Kerala's Thrissur ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, did not turn up for the interrogation on Sunday, police said.

A video going viral on social media shows a would-be robber getting body slammed by the person he was trying to rob.

This list takes a look at some such aspiring-criminals whose robbery fails have left social media users in splits.

A Southern California resident has impressed many by coming up with a simple and effective way to deter thieves.

A shopkeeper in the UK is being hailed as a "Pakka Punjabi" on Twitter for his reaction to an attempted robbery.

A government official in Bihar was shot at by some unidentified criminals in Jehanabad last evening, the police said.

Unable to raise the required amount for the flat he purchased, a 32-year-old man on Wednesday staged a robbery of Rs 35 lakh with the help of his driver at Matunga in central Mumbai, but their trickery was detected by the police within two hours.

A bank robbery in the United States was recently thwarted after a quick-thing cashier convinced the robber into taking a seat until cops arrived to arrest him.

"This is the greatest!! What an epic fail!!" said a user.

After failing to find money, two masked thieves burnt nearly 150 important files following a break into the Lambloo branch of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Sunday, police said.

The man, dressed in red shirt and matching shoes, stopped to put on his sunglasses in an apparent bid to avoid being recognised, as seen in the clip.

Two burglars triggered a blast at an ATM centre in the Chikhali area of Pimpri-Chinchwad town in Pune district using gelatin sticks, but failed to take out any cash from the machine in the early hours of Thursday, said police.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of robbery as well as two counts of attempted robbery.

Armed with a hammer and sachets of Oral Re-hydration Solutions (ORS), a 40-year-old woman last Friday locked herself inside a bank in Meghalaya's capital city Shillong to carry out a Hollywood-style money heist.

A 40- year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rob a bank in the Meghalaya state capital after being cooped up in the building for three days, a senior police officer said.

Two senior BJP leaders, summoned in connection with the recent highway robbery of hawala money at Kodakara in Kerala's Thrissur ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, did not turn up for the interrogation on Sunday, police said.

A video going viral on social media shows a would-be robber getting body slammed by the person he was trying to rob.

This list takes a look at some such aspiring-criminals whose robbery fails have left social media users in splits.

A Southern California resident has impressed many by coming up with a simple and effective way to deter thieves.

A shopkeeper in the UK is being hailed as a "Pakka Punjabi" on Twitter for his reaction to an attempted robbery.