Three young players of Bundesliga club Hanover 96 got arrested for trying to play Ocean’s Eleven over the weekend.

The gangster wannabes were on the route to rob a gambling hall in the north German city. They had everything planned. The trio were equipped with balaclavas and air pistols and driving a car with fake car number plates. However the teenagers chickened out and decided to call off the plan.

That could have been that. But the police’s attention was drawn to the group when the trio left their vehicle in a no-park area and forgot to unscrew the two different stolen car registration plates.

A search of the vehicle revealed the masks and guns and the three were taken into custody, where they admitted their plan in a separate interrogation.