| Aubrey's Outlook |
| Bank Robbery Order to go, Please |
| by Aubrey Zich |
| When is a bank robbery not a bank robbery? When the robber tried to get money delivered by the branch manger. |
If some one mentions “bank robbery” what is the image that comes to mind? I don’t know what you see, but I see a guy wearing a bandana over his face with a gun and flour sack. This maybe a dated image since the robber is dressed like a bad cowboy (you can tell them from the good cowboys because they are dressed in black.) As old west as this is, a bank robbery is a bank robbery. . . that is unless you call the bank manager to meet you somewhere with a sack of money. When that happens there is usually more to the story and it's called extortion.
But someone thought they might be able to pull it off. A man who robbed a bank on Wednesday called the same bank two days later and asked for the manager to bring him a sack of money. He must be pretty sure of his bank robbing intimidation skills to pull a stunt like that. New Zealand Herald reports: The offender rang the bank manager yesterday asking for a meeting and for the manager to take a brown paper bag of money with him.
The meeting was to have been about 50m from the branch, which is on Dawson Rd, but the caller rang back to say he was uncomfortable with the location.
He then asked for a meeting about a kilometre away in Othello Dr, but didn't turn up. If I was that bank robber I wouldn’t have shown up either. I would have realized how foolish it was to get a bag full of bills brought to a designated location. To get that to happen, you usually need to borrow a rich person's kid or at least have some compromising pictures before anyone will leave that brown paper bag behind the third dumpster on the left. If you can’t even go to the bank you are going to rob it just proves you are getting lazy. Bank Robbing is not a work at home job like stuffing envelopes and you can’t get it delivered like a pizza. There are just some things you need to do in person and telling the cashier to slip a stack of non-consecutive unmarked twenties into a sack is one of them.
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