U.K. TWO bungling robbers who held up a post office at gunpoint gave up when the woman behind the counter told them not to be "so silly".
Martin Bullough, 56, and David Atkinson, 37, both from Blackpool, drove the 50 miles to the seaside village of Arnside in Cumbria because they had heard the shop there would be a soft target. But they reckoned without sub-postmistress Sandra Gardner who, despite having an imitation pistol pointed at her chest, gave them a good telling off. As they threatened her with the "realistic" gun and told her to hand over the cash, she simply looked at them and said: "Don't be so silly. I'm going to ring the police." Then the two men left the shop and drove off, but only after freeing their getaway car which had been boxed in in the car park. And as they left Mrs Gardner, described as "remarkably resolute", gave the police a running commentary on the phone. At Carlisle Crown Court Bullough, who lived in a bedsit in Warbreck Hill Road, North Shore, was jailed for six years.Atkinson, of Charles Street, Blackpool, got four years. Both pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and to possessing an imitation firearm while committing an offence. MagazineLane.com
