Man robs bank with chilli sauce

Man robs bank with chilli sauce

JAKARTA (JP): A man who desperately needed cash for an
upgrading education course attempted to rob a bank in the West
Java town of Cirebon with a double-edged knife and a toy pistol
loaded with chilli sauce.

The 27-year-old man entered Bank Jabar on Monday afternoon,
spraying chilli sauce at the tellers while shouting "Gimme the
money, gimme the money," Antara reported.

The man, a school guard identified only as Ma, proved he meant
it by chopping off the telephone line with his double-edged knife
as an employee was trying to call the police, eyewitnesses said.

But he proved to be an amateur when he ran for his life empty-
handed after people in the bank located in the busy Cirebon Mal
screamed for help.

His adventure ended with him being mobbed black and blue and
then being locked up in police custody.

As to his chilli sauce pistol, he said he was inspired to use
it by watching action films on TV and at the cinema. (pan)