A bank robber who demanded £10,000 cash was baffled when a bank clerk told him he'd got the wrong counter.
The cool-headed cashier told the masked robber that if he wanted a loan he needed to go to a different counter.
The robber, who had handed over a note demanding the cash, was left stumped by the move and fled empty-handed from the bank in the Austrian city of Graz.
In addition, the cashier gave police such a good description of the robber that he was arrested minutes later.
The 40-year-old Austrian robber, who was not been named for legal reasons, admitted he had no idea how to react when he was told he was at the wrong counter.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger burns his children's dirty clothes if they leave them lying about.
Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, bans his four children from seeing friends if they don't do their own laundry reports The Sun.
His wife, Maria Shriver said: "He's strict about laundry. He goes around taking the kids' clothes that they leave out.
"He throws things in the fire or hides things. They don't get them back."
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Sesame Street favourite Cookie Monster is going on a diet.
He is aiming to get healthy during the show's new series reports the New Zealand Herald.
Other characters will also get involved in the health drive. Elmo will be shown exercising.
As part of the project, Cookie Monster, who used to sing that "C is for cookie", will be telling viewers that biscuits are occasional treats. He now sings: "A cookie is a sometimes food."
The producers of Sesame Street will now start with a health tip about nutrition, exercise, hygiene and rest.
Producers deny that Cookie Monster has been placed on a diet. "We would never use the word diet with pre-schoolers," said a spokeswoman.