Hapless mugger pleads for bus fare home

A knife-wielding mugger in Germany was reduced to pleading with a pensioner for his bus fare home after she refused to hand over her purse, according to a Reuters report.

With his woolly hat pulled down and the neck of his sweater covering his nose and mouth, the youth pulled a 25cm blade on the woman in the seaside town of Binz and threatened to stab her unless she handed over her bag, police said.

She refused.“Then he tried to invoke her pity,” a police spokeswoman said.

“He said ‘at least give me five euros ($6.40) for the bus ride home’.

But she just walked off and left him standing.”

Police believed the youth, aged about 16, was probably a novice as his threats were delivered in the polite form of “you“ in German - “Sie”.

I'm sure most of us have have been approached by people asking money for "bus fares" to their "hometown".

I'm sure some of us have been robbed. I was once robbed of RM400 by half a dozen punks with a pistol. Hope the assholes die of AIDS.