One man’s ambitions to be the next criminal genius went disastrously awry in Kratie on Tuesday when he tried to commit a robbery in the full sight of the police.

The clumsy criminal spotted his potential victim, a female student driving home from school, and pulled out a knife, ready to make a speedy getaway on her moto.

But his plans were foiled when police, who had been watching the entire thing, put him in cuffs. DEUM AMPIL