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Robber Fails Because He Can't Speak German
The Local ^
| 25 Jul 2014
Posted on 07/25/2014 6:02:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An armed robber fled a Berlin supermarket empty-handed in frustration over his lack of German language skills.
The unidentified man entered the store in the city's Mitte district, placed a rucksack on the counter, produced a knife and started gesticulating wildly at the two female staff members, police said.
He then vaulted over the counter and continued a series of hand gestures that only further confused the women, aged 28 and 29.
"The offender said something unintelligible but the threatened shopkeeper did not respond," police said in a statement.
One ran into the street calling for help, prompting the man to flee after abandoning both knife and backpack, which the staff later realized he had wanted them to fill with cash from the register.
Police were searching for the would-be robber after Tuesday's incident which happened at 7pm.
TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ichbineinbuffooner; iloveahappyending
This should be in a Woody Allen movie.
To: nickcarraway
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — their Bolivian adventure went down hill after “Es tu es un robbo” and then they forgot the rest of their Spanish.
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:04:56 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
"The offender said something unintelligible but the threatened shopkeeper did not respond," Ich bin ein Badrobber!
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:12:20 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Ich bin ein Tagliner)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:13:00 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:13:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Tennessee Nana
Ahh, you learned all your German from Hogan’s Heroes, like me.
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:14:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:15:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Tennessee Nana; All
where's the John Banner (Schulz)
photo? Kepler Werner (Klink) photo? *grin*
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:16:20 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: nickcarraway
"The offender said something unintelligible but the threatened shopkeeper did not respond," police said in a statement. Arabic?
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:18:12 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: mikrofon
Ich bin ein Badrobber!And the man wins the Jelly Doughnut prize...
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:18:48 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
In France they would either sneer at him and ignore him, or natter about his pronunciation.
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posted on
07/25/2014 6:50:45 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
You missed a critical point. The store was robbed at 7pm. The stores would have been long closed by then in France. One more reason to love the French.
To: nickcarraway
If he was one of Holders people he would at least speak Austrian.
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posted on
07/25/2014 8:22:50 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
To: nickcarraway
Die Duplos sind klein, aber oho!
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posted on
07/25/2014 8:46:30 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: cynwoody
"The offender said something unintelligible but the threatened shopkeeper did not respond," police said in a statement. Arabic?
More likely to be Turkish, since for decades the Germans have been importing "Gastarbeiteren" (guest workers) from Turkey. Supposedly, this has been done to get work done that German workers won't do. Now, *where* have we heard *this* before...
the infowarrior
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