Ananova:

A robber was met by a laughter in a school in Chile when his raid was mistaken for a play rehearsal.

Parents, teachers and pupils were in the school in Providencia when a man entered and said: "This is a robbery!"

Witnesses said everyone started laughing as students had just been rehearsing a play which started with the same words.

A police spokesman told Las Ultimas Noticias: "The robber had difficulty in making people believe he was serious, he had to throw a fit."

Eventually people understood what was really going on and the robber took the registration money and ran off.

But the unlucky criminal ran towards the local police station and was arrested by officers who were on their way after being alerted about the robbery.