Nov 29, 2008

Cardboard man holds off 30 cops for an hour

A life-size cardboard cutout of a man made turkeys out of more than two dozen law enforcement officers after an hour-long standoff at a bank in New Jersey.

Some 30 officers surrounded a PNC Bank branch in Montgomery Township after alarms at the branch went off at 8:40 p.m.

Officers looked through a window and reported seeing a person crouching inside.

The cops proceeded to evacuate a nearby housing complex, stop traffic on an adjourning highway and try to negotiate with the cardboard crook through a bullhorn.

An hour later a SWAT team stormed inside only to find that their “crook” was made of cardboard.

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