Urine Trouble: Swedish bank robber steals $500K, but leaves "evidence" in vault
(CBS/AP) COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Swedish bank robber might have gotten away with it, except that he "failed" the urine test.
Explanation to follow.
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Denmark police say a would-be thief broke into a bank vault in Copenhagen, hid there for three days, but then left three bottles of urine behind (yes, his own).
The 27-year-old man and his accomplice used the bottles to relieve themselves after sneaking into the vault on a Friday last May, and staying inside until the bank reopened the following Monday.While inside, the robbers emptied 140 safety deposit boxes of at least $500,000 in cash and jewelry. But prosecutor Frederik Larsen said Wednesday they forgot to take the urine when they left "so we were able to get their DNA samples from the bottles."
The evidence helped prosecutors win a 21-month prison sentence for the Swede on Tuesday. However, his accomplice is still at large, and all that loot hasn't been recovered.