It won't be an exaggeration to call him the world's worst thief but yes, a thief in China stole gold bars from a shop only to discover they were fake. He undoubtedly got the shock of his life as the shop he targeted only used fake gold bars as display pieces. The store actually offers money management service.
People's Daily, China posted a surveillance footage on You Tube showing a masked man entering the store in East China's Zhejiang province through a hole in the ceiling. He then hammers the glass case to steal seven gold bars.The People's Daily, China further reports that the thief was taken aback when he discovered that his attempt proved futile as all those gold bars were fake.
However, it is not clear how he came to know about this but we wonder what he would have done with those worthless pieces. Well, with this incident that age-old proverb has been aptly proved: All that glitters is not gold.
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