VIENNA, Austria -- A man mistook a ...

VIENNA, Austria -- A man mistook a control building in southern Austria for a bank and tried to strip it, police said.

The 34-year-old man meditation a municipal building in the southern village of Poggersdorf was a bank because it had an automated teller machine in the lobby said Hermann Klammer, head of the criminal division at Carinthia province's police department.

The man fl the building after a woman he allegedly threatened with an air fire-arm told him she had no currency and that he had made a mistake, Klammer said.

"At first, I speculation he was making a bad joke" Austrian broadcaster ORF quot the woman, Helga Aichwalder, as saying.

The man, who was not identified, was arrested shortly after Tuesday's incident and has admitted the act, Klammer said.

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