A US woman planned on using a wheelchair as a getaway vehicle after a bungled robbery
SURELY this was the stupidest hold-up in history - and it was all captured on CCTV film.
A woman with a black rubbish sack over her head attempted to rob a jewellery shop while her accomplice waited outside with her getaway vehicle - a wheelchair.
The farcical hold-up began when Noemi Duchene arrived outside the jewellers in El Paso, Texas, having being pushed to the store in a wheelchair, the Daily Mail reported.
As CCTV cameras captured her arrival outside the Estate and New Jewellery store, the 44-year-old rises out of the wheelchair.
She clumsily covers her head and body with a billowing black rubbish sack with two holes cut out for her eyes before walking into the store.
Once inside she pulls out a 30cm-long hunting knife, approaches owner Linda Bradley and demands "everything".
But Ms Bradley - who is clearly a cool head in a crisis - swiftly assessed the situation.
Rather than be scared, the CCTV shows her running behind the counter to grab a pink-coloured stun gun and giving chase.