Qld:Service station bandits escape with biscuits

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2006
Qld:Service station bandits escape with biscuits

Two men have escaped with only a packet of biscuits after an armed hold-up on a Brisbane
service station.

Police say the men went to the counter of the Ampol Service Station on Strathpine Road
in suburban Bald Hill around 1.40 am (AEST) with a packet of biscuits.

They threatened the male attendant with a knife and demanded money .. but when he refused
.. fled with only the biscuits.

In another incident .. a man armed with a gun fled empty-handed after a bottle shop
attended grabbed his stolen money back at Kenmore .. in Brisbane's west.

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KEYWORD: HOLDUPS (BRISBANE)

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