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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bank-robbers-tin-foil-brazil_us_570a36d8e4b0885fb50d53dc

 

 

Bank robbers in southern Brazil donned a highly unusual disguise for a heist.

The duo covered themselves from head to toe in aluminum foil for the early Saturday morning raid on the Banco do Brasil branch in Praia Grande.

Police said the two believed their improvised outfits would beat the bank’s alarm system and stop it from sounding.

Policia Militar The robbers covered themselves in aluminum foil in a bid to beat the bank’s alarm system.

They wanted to make sure the alarms didn’t detect their presence by using the aluminum foil,” a spokesman for the Santa Catarina state’s military police told Brazilian national newspaper O Globo.

Astonishingly, the robbers’ plan appeared to work.

But, as their cloaks didn’t allow Harry Potter-style invisibility, the hapless pair was still captured by the bank’s surveillance cameras.

 

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