Italy’s ‘hypnotist’ thief

Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotising supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from their cash registers.

It probably seemed like a deadly idea at the time. Remember, with great power comes great chances to rip people off … or something like that.

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5 Comments.

  1. The checkout girl told the reporters she couldn’t remember anything, she said that the man got closer to her across the counter, said something and then, while she was standing there unable to think or do anything, the man picked up the money form the drawer.
    An accomplice of the man was distracting the other custemers in line.
    Of course the police haven’t found the couple yet…

    [Why didn't the maths work?]

  2. Antonio, I suppose when you have those sort of skills you may as well use them to make some money. i wonder could he hypnotise the police if they come to arrest him? :)

    problems with the maths question?

  3. Hypnotise the police? Very good idea!
    You can make them believe they got you :)

    The maths: I solved the difficult calculation this morning, 7+1=8, but the system yelled at me ;)
    So I had to rewrite the comment. Luckily I had the feeling something could have gone wrong and I copied the text before submitting it, so I pasted it later :)

  4. Must be something wrong with the damned script. I meant to get rid of the script and find another way to fight the spam but just haven’t had time.

  5. Don’t bother, Maca, it’s been just a little problem, there’s no need to get involved in long and heavy tasks :)