A pair of bumbling thieves stole a bag of bread rolls from a restaurant, then one of them accidentally shot his accomplice .
Benjamin Jorgensen and Donna Hayes attempted to rob the Cuckoo Restaurant in Melbourne, Australia on April 1 last year. But they escaped with the wrong kind of dough. The thieves thought that they had stolen AUS$30,000 (NT$833,900), but actually they had picked up a bag of bread rolls by mistake.
But the mistakes did not end there --- Jorgensen, 38, then made for the wrong getaway car . He was carrying a sawn-off shotgun , and he accidentally shot his accomplice, Hayes, 36, in the hip. Jorgensen was caught as he fumbled with his keys to open the car.
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Hayes, who was Jorgensen's girlfriend at the time, had to stay in a hospital for a month. Jorgensen has admitted that he was to blame for Hayes' injury. Both admitted carrying out armed robbery at Victoria Court in Melbourne.
Judge Roland Williams compared the thieves to an old silent movie series about bumbling policemen: "I've heard of the Keystone Cops - this is Keystone Robbers," he said. The judge also said that even though the criminals were useless, it didn't make their crime any less serious.(CATHERINE THOMAS, STAFF WRITER, WITH AGENCIES)
一對烏龍搶匪從一間餐廳偷了一袋圓麵包後,其中一人還不小心射傷他的同夥。
去年四月一日,班傑明.喬傑森和唐娜.海斯試圖要搶劫墨爾本的「杜鵑餐館」,卻烏龍地偷錯東西逃逸;他們以為到手的是三萬澳幣(約合新台幣八十三萬三千九百元)現金,但其實他們錯拿成一袋圓麵包。
這場鬧劇並沒有就此結束──三十八歲的喬傑森又烏龍地找錯了準備用來逃跑的車,接著攜帶了一把短管散彈槍的他還不小心開槍擊中三十六歲同夥海斯的屁股;喬傑森在慌張找車鑰匙開車門時被捕。
海斯當時是喬傑森的女友,這顆子彈讓她在醫院躺了一個月,喬傑森承認是他射傷海斯,兩人也都在墨爾本的維多利亞法庭坦承犯下這起持械搶案。
法官羅蘭.威廉斯把這兩個小偷比喻成一系列描述一群笨警探的老默劇,他說:「我聽過《阿呆警探》,那他們就是阿瓜小偷了。」這名法官還說,雖然這兩個搶匪最後沒有得逞,但是那並不表示他們會被輕判。(綜合外電�翻譯:袁星塵)
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