A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email
Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.
According to daily Bild, he mocked the police for getting his age, height and accent wrong then pointed out he escaped in a car, not on foot.
"His game of cat and mouse went all wrong," a Wuerzburg police spokesman said.
Police traced his email and arrested him in a gambling hall in Hamburg just a few hours later.
"He was completely shocked," the spokesman said.