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Just because you are robbing a bank doesnt mean you need to be rude about it.
Why are so many of them demanding $5,000? Is there a legal cutoff at play here?
Perhaps it's a nice round number and seems small enough that they could carry it without being noticed.
Man, looking at how much money these guys take in sure puts the kibosh on thinking I could afford a nice house if I only knocked over a bank. Most of these guys' takes would only be worth one or two mortgage payments. I guess crime does not pay, after all.
Their standard is wrong. Successful ought to mean "got money and was not apprehended" - not simply "got money".
An inventive programmer should write an app that scans all the notes and applies some MENACE-like logic to generate the wording for demand notes which are likely to yield the maximum return. They could call it RoboPerp.
It seems like these people are shooting too low. I watched an armored car guard empty an ATM and there was at least $2000 in cash on his person. There have got to be better crimes. Just goes to show that only the desperate and the stupid commit crimes.
From the article:
"The FBI and police nationwide are advising banks to adopt a policy of “no hats, no hoods, no sunglasses, no cell phones” to head off robberies."
Hats, hoods, sunglasses I can understand, but why no cell phones?
I don't understand that policy at all. The people who won't follow the "don't rob us" policy are going to follow the "no hats" policy?
Anybody wearing a hat is more likely to be a robber and can be treated as such before they even reach the teller.
No cell phones presumably because cell phones all have cameras in them, and using a phone is obviously just a cover for taking photos while casing the joint.
While I've no evidence, I'd a feeling that this is a lot more likely to have happened than all these terrorists that cops keep hoping to prevent by arresting elderly tourists with cameras.
"Please put $50,000 in this bag and apt natural. I have a gub pointing at you."
-from one of Woody Allen's best scenes ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHOgkDbVqc
Am I the only one who misread the headline and asked themselves "Now why would someone rob a bank just to demand that the teller give them a note?"
I catch shoplifters for a living, and one odd thing- they always pretend to be talking on a cellphone when exiting with the pilfered goods. A lot of crooks do that because they are nervous, and dont want to speak to anyone or be stopped. Its an excuse to keep on walking. It keeps your nervous, shaking hands busy. Also, hides face from cameras a bit.
>> Why are so many of them demanding $5,000?
Maybes... they have to pay tax on any higher earnings? Request any more and they risk arousing suspision? £10,000 is just greedy?
Anyway, the real question is: was the dude in the pic successful or not? I recon the "Thanks a bunch" must have clinched it?
For all that most of the banks around here have "no sunglasses" policies and the like, I've broken just about every one of those, and had no problems getting service without the teller so much as mentioning it.
Admitadly, I've never quite been able to bring myself to try walking into a bank wearing a ski mask.
Gordon Dillow and William J. Rehder wrote a fascinating book Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World that goes into a lot of detail on bank robberies. The title's taken from Willie Sutton's famous answer when asked why he robbed banks.