Schoolyard Chant Foils Armed Robbery

The Associated PressWednesday, October 11, 2006; 5:47 PM

A group of school children helped foil an attempted armored van robbery by memorizing the getaway car's registration plate in a school yard chant, police said Wednesday.

A passer-by who spotted the car, but feared she would forget the plate number so she asked a group of children to memorize it, police in Liverpool said.

The group of nine and 10-year-olds remembered the registration details by turning the numbers into a chant, before a classmate arrived with a pen. The three thieves were traced and arrested within 40 minutes, police said.

"The lady did not have a pen or paper on her so went over to the children and repeated the registration number to them," said a spokeswoman for Merseyside Police, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with force policy. (?) "The children sang the song in a chant to help remember it, while one of them ran into the school for a pen."

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