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'Bottom area' rustling gives game away

Published Friday 9th May 2008 08:54 GMT

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Oooh Dear 

By Daniel Bennett
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:15 GMT
Coat

Sh*t Happens eh!

Well 

By Daniel Wilkie
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:23 GMT

What an arse of a robbery attempt that was!

so he took off his clothes 

By Hollerith
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:23 GMT

Do we presume he had a change of clothing with him, or was he nicked in the nude? In which case, the police officers should have been able to spot the cash rather sooner than they did.

Presumably now his troubles are over, as he will be vacationing for a couple of years at taxpayers' expense.

But that crisp new NZ currency did not deserve to die.

Plastic money 

By Tom
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:39 GMT

I thought New Zealand notes where plastic? if so that may have been pretty uncomfortable, not saying that a fist full of paper cash up the backdoor wouldnt hurt, just plastic would be a whole new level.

Bum rap or piles of cash 

By Elmer Phud
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:45 GMT
Coat

Cattle rustling I've heard of but arse rustling?

Or maybe it was him putting money where he usually speaks from.

New Zealand police... 

By Pete
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 09:51 GMT
Joke

suspect that more of the loot may be hidden up the thief's rear end. When asked by a reporter about the current situation, the Chief of police commented "The last time we looked there was no change".

I can imagine that... 

By Nick Palmer
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 10:04 GMT

...papercuts'd be especially nasty... *shudder*

I'm glad 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 10:43 GMT

they got to the bottom of that one

@ Tom 

By Johnny G
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 10:59 GMT

If it was plastic, it could have just been wiped clean rather than destoyed. The cash I mean, not his arse.

Old saying 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:10 GMT

Pecunia non olet, or do they?

Rustling 

By Mr B
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:25 GMT
Coat

as in rounding, up and stealing ???

/mine's the one with latex gloves.

Sorry Elmer I could not resist the round & up.

Question 

By ImaGnuber
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:26 GMT

Destroyed? Haven't the NZ Police heard of money laundering?

That's going to need laundering 

By Chris
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:33 GMT

Oh dear.

No Comment 

By heystoopid
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:42 GMT
Paris Hilton

No comment , it speaks for itself !

Gives a new meaning 

By An-D
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:50 GMT
Coat

To the term 'Arse Bandit'

/mines the one with the feather boa

Apparently... 

By Mark Johnson
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:24 GMT
Coat

...the most compelling evidence against the suspect came after he was fingered during the identity parade.

pathetic punning 

By bluesxman
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:32 GMT
Coat

If only he hadn't stuffed it up, the law wouldn't have fingered him and he'd have made a clean getaway.

I'm going, I'm going ... wonder if there's a job for me at The Sun.

I'm sorry 

By Ted Treen
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:35 GMT
Coat

The cheek of it: still, at least NZ Plod got to the bottom of it very quickly.....

OK, I'll leave quietly...

Mine's the very loud oversized check pattern, with the plastic squirty flower in the buttonhole....

wonder if... 

By ahahaha you won't catch me that easy again
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:48 GMT

...the $2k was in loose "bowels"??

mine's the first one that comes

I never done it officer 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 13:08 GMT

I just have a rich diet.

So thats where I put my inheritance.

I'm a stripper it and this was a tip.

So you snort coke the other end, that's what I've been doing wrong all these years.

Well I had to put it somewhere I took all my clothes off and burned them.

I really do shit money.

I offered the money to a pretty girl and she told me where to put it.

I'm innocent I tell you, innocent!

Apparently... 

By Andrew Moore
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 13:13 GMT
Joke

...It was only $1998- according to the robber he "asn't feeling too grand..."

@Mr B 

By Elmer Phud
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 13:21 GMT

Sorry? nah, ambiguity is the meat of the Reg readers (no, not knob meat, cow meat). It sure gives 'piles of money' a different meaning.

Still it was a great crack for a while but got a bum deal out of it in the end.

Still, not many would have had the cheek, though it's an ill wind etc.we tc.

"Would sir like to leave a small something as a deposit"

Innuendo - why does it always sound as if it means something else?

Lucky bastard 

By Morten Ranulf Clausen
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 14:12 GMT
Happy

Imagine the pain if the take had been higher.

Or coins only. Being put in the clink for clinking. Oh the humanity.

OK, off to the pub lads, my trousers are full so the next one's on me...

*snickers* 

By James O'Brien
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 17:33 GMT
Coat

At least when he told the NZ Plods to "Go Fu*k themselves" they could reply that he didnt have enough sh*t to pay with.

/get me a beer and Ill be on my way

@Mr. B 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 18:05 GMT
Coat

It's stealing, rounding, and up (up and awaaaaay)...

Mine's the one with the credit cards only - I don't handle cash

Look on the bright side 

By Greg Fleming
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 21:22 GMT

After that little performance, he'll be a very popular boy in prison.

I'd have gladly paid him two grand to get a front row seat.

@ Tom 

By EnigmaForce
Posted Saturday 10th May 2008 01:38 GMT
Coat

It's very paper-like plastic :-)

And I see the "arse-bandit", ahem, crack, has already been made. Curses.

@ ImaGnuber 

By nickj
Posted Sunday 11th May 2008 00:27 GMT
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seconded

@at the rest of you

PMSL

Does that mean that the NZ Plods'... 

By Ishkandar
Posted Sunday 11th May 2008 18:47 GMT

... quick probe was successfully concluded ?? Well, no one can accuse them plods of taking a very lax(ative) attitude to crime !! All's well that ends well, eh, lads ??

These day... 

By Ishkandar
Posted Sunday 11th May 2008 18:57 GMT
Unhappy

...you can't keep your money safe anywhere !!

Apparently he was taken ill just after the money was recovered. 

By DG
Posted Sunday 11th May 2008 20:49 GMT
Coat

He said he wasn't feeling two grand.

Dirty sexy money? 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 01:40 GMT
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Ewwww!

Too bad for him... 

By Shaun
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 03:48 GMT
Coat

...that they didn't let him keep the money in the end.

Also: 

By Shaun
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 03:52 GMT
Joke

A bit rich, on the (w)hole, I'd say

Ow 

By Scott Mckenzie
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 09:06 GMT

Let's hope it was:

a) All in notes

b) Not $1 bills

For his sake!!

Did I miss anything? 

By Peter
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 13:06 GMT
Coat

Sticky fingers (aargh)

You can NOT take that to the bank

A real hold-up

He's in deep shit

It was all it was cracked up to be

Look ma, no hands..

all right, all right. I'm going already.

Don't get so tight arsed about it.

Never to many puns 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 11:22 GMT

A bum rap in my opinion

new zealand notes ARE plastic.. 

By Matthew
Posted Wednesday 21st May 2008 03:53 GMT

would YOUnlike to wipe them?

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