A wannabe bank robber in Poland was delivered to a swift halt by means of an offended pensioner.

The thief, armed with a knife, used to be no fit for her elderly nemesis and her fearsome strolling stick.

Photos displays the moment the pensioner used her mobility aide as a weapon to maintain the legal at bay.

She had additionally clutched the hair of the opposite girl to obstruct her break out.

The incident took place at a branch of PKO Bank Polski in Przemysl, south-jap Poland, on Tuesday, December 6.

A Young girl had entered the financial institution branch, pulled a knife on a female employee, and demanded cash.

Footage filmed within the branch presentations the assailant, later identified as 26-12 months-old Zoja P., protecting the employee hostage through the hair.

a lady can also be heard asking her: ‘Ma’am, what are you doing?’ To which she replies: ‘I’m robbing the bank.’

the girl then asks: ‘Why?’ To which Zoja P. simply replies: ‘Because.’

The assailant can then be noticed stuffing PLN 12,500 – £2,THREE HUNDRED – in money, which she have been handed moments in advance, right into a large bag.

‘The elderly girl who reacted at the right time and thwarted the assault merits reward’ (Picture: CEN)

However then, apparently out of nowhere, an elderly girl who had crept up in the back of her moves her a couple of occasions in the again together with her strolling stick.

Zoja P. is in brief dazed before others step in and overpower her.

one of folks who grabs her can be heard shouting: ‘Grasp the knife!’ a person in a go well with then wrests the weapon from her and arms it to a different girl.

the employees then talk about calling the police and are knowledgeable officials are on their method.

Police arrived at the scene and arrested the wannabe financial institution robber (Image: CEN)

Officials later arrived on the scene and arrested the younger woman before remanding her in custody.

She was later discovered to be a dual Ukrainian and Russian nationwide and unregistered with Polish authorities.

She admitted to a rate of robbery with a deadly device and claimed to prosecutors that she had tried to rob the financial institution as a result of she wanted cash to return to Moscow.

As a part of the research, she will go through a psychiatric evaluate. If found responsible and of sound thoughts, she may face a minimum of three years in prison.

Spokeswoman Marta Petkowska of the District Prosecutor’s Administrative Center in Przemysl said of the not going hero in the tale: ‘Unquestionably, on this entire situation, the elderly girl who reacted at the proper time and thwarted the assault deserves reward.’

no person within the bank at the time of the incident used to be injured.

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