Suspected burglar falls through bank roof
Not every criminal is a criminal genius.
Case in point: The alleged burglar who fell through a roof while fleeing police in San Francisco.
Hey, they can't all be Butch Cassidy.
According to KPIX, the man had attempted to break into an ATM at the Bank of America on San Bruno Avenue.
He crawled through an air ventilation shaft early in the morning, before the bank was open for business.
The would-be thief set off the bank's silent alarm, and the premises' surveillance system had also spotted a dark-clothed suspect with a crowbar lurking in the building, police said.
Cops who responded to the alarm saw the suspect fleeing, running and jumping from one roof to another.
But then, like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon, the thief fell through a hole in the rooftop just as he was preparing to surrender, KPIX reports.
He landed in the attic of an apartment.
"There was a hole in the roof where he fell through just as we were ordering him to put his hands up," Police Sgt. Wilfred Williams told reporters.
Media Information Officer Gordon Shyy of the San Francisco Police Department told Yahoo News that the suspect's name is John Franklin, 33.
No money was taken from the ATM, Shyy said.
"I've responded to several different silent alarm calls at banks, but this is the first time when someone fell through a roof," Williams continued.
The suspect wasn't seriously injured during the tumble, according to KPIX.
And thus ends the sad, sad saga of the hapless bandit of San Francisco.
