While the staff were still recovering from the shock of the robbery, the robber, now without his balaclava and shotgun, walked in to the bank to settle his overdraft.

Staff recognised the distinctive trainers he’d been wearing and called police.  Police said:

“They could not believe their eyes when they saw a man wearing the same shoes come back in and kept him in the bank talking about his overdraft while our officers arrived.”

The man is now arrested and will be charged with armed robbery.

Police officer who answered her call was very angry and asked her to clear the line or face a charge of wasting police time.

Hirsch was disappointed for not getting the help. She said:

“I had finished the crossword except for this one answer and I was totally stumped. I had looked all over the internet and asked friends. It was really bothering me.

“The clue was for the full name of a police border protection unit so I thought they would not mind helping and I called the hotline – but they were really rude.

“All I wanted was a bit of help and it would only have taken them a second to tell me the answer but instead I got told to get off the line.”

A Polish man takes the stupidity to a whole new level. After being out drinking with his friends, he wasn´t sure if he was too drunk to drive. So what did he do?

He drove to a police station and asked officers if he was too drunk to drive. The nearest station was too far for him to walk and so he decided to drive there.

Police officers did a breath test on him and found that he was over the drink drive limit. He was arrested for drink-driving and lost his driving license. Stupid right?