PARIS (Reuters) - Armed with a toy pistol, a would-be robber picked himself an unlikely target in central Paris -- a gun shop.



Staff at the Armurerie Gare de l'Est in the French capital immediately identified the weapon as harmless. The 26-year-old Mauritanian was subsequently arrested, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Friday.


He was unlucky -- earlier this year a fake rocket launcher was successfully used in a break-out from a prison on the unruly Mediterranean island of Corsica.


A member of staff at the gun shop confirmed there had been a robbery attempt, but declined to give further details.



this should be on "Dumbest Criminals"

on va encore passer pour des cons

Thank God I am out of that

At least this didn't happen in Jersey





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[This message was edited Mon Jul 7 10:17:38 PDT 2003 by Sweeny79]

gooeythehamster said:

I was just gonna Say Gooey got out just in time!!

I thought they only allowed toy poodles in France..lol

Damn!

This is even worse than the story I remember about the guy who robbed the gun shop at knife point. Or at least tried to.