An attempt by a German thief to change his appearance after a robbery backfired Monday when a hairdresser tipped off the police.

German police said in a statement Tuesday they had detained a man and his 23-year-old female accomplice on suspicion of robbing a store in the Berlin suburb of Spandau and attacking the 59-year-old shop assistant.

"Afterwards they both fled with their loot to a nearby hairdressers. The extremely drunk 24-year-old man cut his own hair there, boasted about his crime and then left the hairdressers together with his accomplice," the statement said.

An employee at the hairdressers called the police who detained the couple nearby. During a search of the pair, who police said were drug addicts, officers found on the woman a bank card that was stolen during an earlier break-in.

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