Modern Conveniences

Apparently, some folks on the Island of Crete were tired of waiting for modern conveniences to be installed in the local bank.

So they made their own drive-through. With a stolen bulldozer.

The four robbers used a stolen bulldozer to tear down the entrance to the bank near the town of Hania, lifted the 500-kilo safe and loaded it onto a waiting truck while shooting in the air early on Monday.

"It was a gangster operation," the semi-official Athens News Agency quoted local mayor Pandelis Karagiannakis as saying.

The agency said the robbers managed to escape after blocking streets with several stolen vehicles, including two big cement mixer trucks, preventing police cars from reaching the bank.

Police are looking to give the men all the modern conveniences that can be found in the local jail.