This man runs the very real risk of having his hand chopped off.
A Saudi man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank’s automatic teller machine but fled when the police arrived, a local daily reported on Tuesday.
The English-language Arab News said residents of the Red Sea city Jeddah called the police after being woken by the noise of the bulldozer, but did not realize for some time that the man was trying to rob the bank.
“It was disturbing. But it never crossed my mind we were watching a theft,” witness Mohammed al-Assiri told Arab News. “With all that’s happening this is the last thing we need.”
Which raises the following issues:
1. Will the Saudis blame this robbery attempt on the Zionists?
2. If it turns out that the bulldozer was produced by Caterpillar, will Saudi anti-crime groups launch a Caterpillar boycott campaign?
