Bank robber in Santa Claus' clothes caught immediately
( 2003-12-10 15:53) (Agencies)
An absent-minded bank robber
dressed as Santa Claus will spend Christmas in an Australian jail, after he
forgot about his pants.
Gregory Harland-White, 40, planned to rob a bank in a small town on
Australia's island state Tasmania dressed as Santa Claus, dump the suit in a
horse trailer and get away on a bicycle, The Mercury newspaper in Tasmania
reported.
After using two pieces of pipe taped together to look like a gun to rob the
bank of A$13,451 (US$9,963), Harland-White headed for his getaway bicycle,
parked some distance away.
But he forgot to take off his Santa pants and was caught before he reached
the bicycle. Harland-White pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a court in Tasmania
on Tuesday and is awaiting sentencing.
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