[UA] Crappy Pickpockets?

[Tim Bisaillon]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thieves in Germany stole 7,500 euros ($9,554) from a man 
by throwing feces at him from behind and then pick-pocketing him while they 
pretended to help clean up the mess, authorities said Monday.

After withdrawing 8,000 euros from a bank for a holiday the man was struck 
in the back of the neck by what he described as human feces, police in the 
central town of Giessen said.

"Immediately afterwards two large women came up to him from behind and 
claimed they had seen someone excreting down onto the street from above," 
police said in a statement.

The two women then began briskly wiping the filth from the man's clothing 
with paper towels they had with them. They were soon joined by a third man, 
who also came bearing paper towels.

Only when the man went to take his foul-smelling trousers to cleaners did he 
notice that 7,500 euros had been taken from his back pocket by one of the 
would-be helpers, police said.

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