Truth > Fiction (Bank Robbery-R)

mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
edited October 2008 in Strut Central
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Quote:/font1h,121b,121In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities.b,121It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in an inner tube, and the cops are still looking for him. "A great amount of money" was taken, Monroe police said, but did not provide a dollar value.b,121It appears to have unfolded this way, according to a Seattle-based NBC affiliate: around 11:00 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, the robber, wearing a yellow vest, safety goggles, a blue shirt, and a respirator mask went over to a guard who was overseeing the unloading of cash to the bank from the truck. He sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed his bag of money, and fled the scene.b,121But here's the hilarious twist. b1The robber had previously put out a Craigslist ad for road maintenance workers, promising wages of $28.50 per hour. Recruits were asked to wait near the Bank of America right around the time of the robbery--wearing yellow vests, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and preferably a blue shirt. At least a dozen of them showed up after responding to the Craigslist ad./b1b,121"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," one of the unwitting decoys, named Mike, said to the NBC station. As it turns out, they were simply placed there to confuse cops who were looking for a guy wearing a virtually identical outfit.b,121Authorities eventually found the getaway inner tube (a getaway inner tube!) and suspect that accomplices may have picked up the robber in a boat. According to the NBC affiliate, police hope to track him down by figuring out who posted the Craigslist ad in the first place.b,121Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was not immediately available for comment.b,121b,121h,121
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  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Awesome

  • pcmrpcmr 5,591 Posts
    people have robbed armored truck guys in stripmalls with pepper spray and gotten away with it toob,121here in canadab,121imagine how good that must feel

  • dirtydirty 93 Posts
    would make a decent movie scene. Starring pierce bronson or that transporter guy.

  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was not immediately available for comment.b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121???????

  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    that's f*cking hilarious

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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121people have robbed armored truck guys in stripmalls with pepper spray and gotten away with it toob,121here in canadab,121imagine how good that must feel b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121how about robbing one with a phone? img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lvl.gif" alt="" 21

  • ignastyignasty 163 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121would make a decent movie scene. Starring pierce bronson /b1 or that transporter guy. b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Notice the reference to the Thomas Crowne Affair at the beginning of the story?

  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
    This guy is kind of my hero.

  • we are in your honor tube-dood.b,121b,121he should have left an article of clothing floating in the river so the cops would say "welp, he's dead... that's the end of that chapter" which is probably what would have happened since everything else went so well.

  • rkwparkrkwpark 915 Posts
    sounds like thomas crowne meets inside man.b,121b,121i wonder if this will breed a string of copycat robberys soon.
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