He was, to put it politely, poorly prepared: A robber came into a gas station in Linz without a mask or gloves and pulled out a knife he had brought with him. But the gas station attendant was not intimidated by this or the threats and grabbed the knife himself. And apparently made more of an impression!
The robber entered the Shell gas station on Salzburger Strasse, corner of Wiener Strasse in Linz, shortly before 3 a.m. on Saturday night. He came in laughing and unmasked, but then pulled a knife about 15 centimeters long out of his pocket and held it up to the gas station employee, a 25-year-old Afghan from Linz. “Give me everything from the till or I’ll hurt you,” the robber threatened in broken German.Cutter knife was within reachThe gas station employee remained unimpressed and grabbed a cutter knife that was lying in the till area and threatened the robber in turn. The robber fled on foot and without loot in a currently unknown direction.This is what the robber looks likeThe police are now looking for clues to the “laughing robber”: The man spoke broken German, was about 25 years old, is around 175 centimeters tall, slim, has short black hair and a southern-looking skin type. He was wearing a brown-green hooded jacket, blue jeans and blue sneakers. Information should be reported to any police station or the Upper Austria State Criminal Police Office on 059133 40 3333.
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