Name: (;;^m^) 2005-01-25 14:37
Man dressed in monkey costume tries to rob convenience store
YOKKAICHI, Mie -- A man dressed in a monkey costume threatened an employee at a local convenience store with a knife in the predawn hours of Tuesday in an unsuccessful robbery attempt, police said.
At around 2:15 a.m., a man wearing a monkey costume sneaked into the Lawson convenience store's Yokkaichi Hinaga-Nishi outlet, threatened a 26-year-old employee with a knife and demanded money, local police said.
The employee immediately went into the store's office to alert the manager. However, the robber had disappeared before the manager came out. Nobody was injured in the incident and no money was stolen, according to investigators.
Judging from the way he talked, the robber appeared to be a man in his 30s or 40s and was about 175 centimeters tall and of medium build. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 25, 2005)
YOKKAICHI, Mie -- A man dressed in a monkey costume threatened an employee at a local convenience store with a knife in the predawn hours of Tuesday in an unsuccessful robbery attempt, police said.
At around 2:15 a.m., a man wearing a monkey costume sneaked into the Lawson convenience store's Yokkaichi Hinaga-Nishi outlet, threatened a 26-year-old employee with a knife and demanded money, local police said.
The employee immediately went into the store's office to alert the manager. However, the robber had disappeared before the manager came out. Nobody was injured in the incident and no money was stolen, according to investigators.
Judging from the way he talked, the robber appeared to be a man in his 30s or 40s and was about 175 centimeters tall and of medium build. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 25, 2005)