This is So-o Bizzare  :LOL

 

In an act of either incredible cool or something much more sinister, a young woman has robbed four Wachovia bank branches in Northern Virginia in recent weeks, all while seemingly immersed in cell phone chats, police say. In the most recent holdup, on Nov. 4 in Ashburn, video footage shows the woman to be almost uninterested as a teller hands her a stack of cash, and she continues talking on her phone as she turns and walks out of the bank

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111002009.html

Ho-Hum this is a Stick-Up

I wonder how she carries the phone (while talking), a gun and her newly acquired stack of cash?

I think I'm in love....

She would look less(?) crazy if she had a hands-free kit

I'd hit it.

I can hardly wait for the Blackberry Bandit, or maybe the T-Mobile Sidekick IM Bandit?

random1234: sup

needcash2006: hey

needcash2006: brb robbing bank

random1234: cool

It would have been so much easier if she had used one of those new Samsung Gun Phones (WCDMA, quad-band GSM, microSD card slot, streaming video and MP3 playback, speakerphone, Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera and .22 caliber single-round pistol).

Beer, she had a gun in the most recent heist.  Are you gonna bet your life on "she won't shoot me, she's talking on the cell phone"?

Beer28 wrote:

So even if you manage to keep their firearm down or knock it loose, and stop them, YOU are the one in trouble at the end of the day.

Yeah, those STUPID corporate policies!!!  Everyone knows it is WAYYY better to TAKE A CHANCE AT GETTING KILLED than it is to let some stupid robber get away with, uh, $2,753 and eighty-nine cents!!!  That's a LOT of money!!!

Karim wrote:

Beer28 wrote: So even if you manage to keep their firearm down or knock it loose, and stop them, YOU are the one in trouble at the end of the day.

Yeah, those STUPID corporate policies!!!  Everyone knows it is WAYYY better to TAKE A CHANCE AT GETTING KILLED than it is to let some stupid robber get away with, uh, $2,753 and eighty-nine cents!!!  That's a LOT of money!!!

LOL, yeah, no way in hell I'm taking one for the team here. 

Beer28 wrote:

ScanIAm wrote: I'd hit it.

I bet if Charles saw this he would ban you. Better erase it.

If he's ever seen Fark, he'll understand.

ObscenityFilter ate my formatting. Fixed

Beer28 wrote:

That is the dumbest thing ever. If somebody is having a cell phone convo, you should be able to thrash them down without fear of being fired for not following protocol.

It's good to know that the "Who needs the police, I'm invincible!" mentality isn't confined to the common Israeli male only.

Tell me, Beer, what happens if you jump her and get shot? What happens if you jump her and the gun goes off and kills a bystander? Or even to stick to the least painful option - instead of giving her $3000, you jump her, the gun goes off and destroys a $5000 piece of equipment in the bank. In which of these scenarios SHOULDN'T the bank fire your macho (I need to watch my language)?

Regulations are there for a specific reason. For every one person who could jump the robber and save the day, there are 100 people who will do the hero schtick and make things worse.
Since there's no way to know who's who in advance, the banks do a very simple calculation and decide that they prefer to lose a pile of cash than deal litigation, settlements and the various baggage attached to dead people.

And you know who these would-be heroes are, Beer? They're you. You and the rest of the people who seem to derive their understanding of the world outside from action movies, just like you think Microsoft works like it does in Antitrust and Pirates of Silicon Valley. These are movies, Beer. Movies. In the real world, a bullet really really hurts, and people don't sit around cackling in mad laughter inside their impenetrable Fortress at Redmond.

Beer28 wrote:

BTW, every retail place I've ever worked for had a policy that you HAVE to give them the money, no matter what. It's because of insurance reasons or what not.

My brother went through this...

He was getting robbed at a Circle K (West Cost thing) and when the robber came around the corner he started taking cartons of cigarrettes...No Not Money...cigarrettes.

Well the guy walked off and left the gun on the counter...got around the counter and remembered..."Um I left"...and as he turned around my brother was right behind him.

Well my brother took 5 years of Shotokan and began taking care of the robber in a nice true fashon. When he called police to come survey the theft and come arrest the guy the manager of the Circle K showed up and fired my brother on the spot.

Cybermagellan wrote:

Beer28 wrote: BTW, every retail place I've ever worked for had a policy that you HAVE to give them the money, no matter what. It's because of insurance reasons or what not.

My brother went through this...

He was getting robbed at a Circle K (West Cost thing) and when the robber came around the corner he started taking cartons of cigarrettes...No Not Money...cigarrettes.

Well the guy walked off and left the gun on the counter...got around the counter and remembered..."Um I left"...and as he turned around my brother was right behind him.

Well my brother took 5 years of Shotokan and began taking care of the robber in a nice true fashon. When he called police to come survey the theft and come arrest the guy the manager of the Circle K showed up and fired my brother on the spot.

Your brother broke Company Policy and was fired. Keeping a minimul amount of cash in the till is also company policy.. to reduce risk of theft and also reduce the insurance companies payout.

Perhaps your brother should have left the store and called the police. Your brother left himself open to a charge of using excessive force (it is still on the books) and a civil lawsuit by the perp.

The insurance company may have mandated certain robbery policies in order to issue the coverage at an agreed upon price. And once the store policy was broken the insurance policy ruled null and void.

This may seem stupid and non-sensical but your brother did not know the capabilities of the robber (although he proved his capabilities were far superior),,

This also minimizes the risk to others being robbed. A robber may decide in their unstable mind to just shoot any and all clerks to minimize any risk to themselves.

Money and material things can always be replaced.. Death or maiming is permnament.

I never said he wasn't wrong...I know he was....my mom also was pretty upset because he decided to risk his life for a few cartons of cig's.

All Good Things Must Come to An End


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ScanIAm wrote:

If he's ever seen Fark, he'll understand.

Do I sense a fellow Farker in my midst!? :O

Two young lives gone down the drain




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ricodued wrote:

ScanIAm wrote: If he's ever seen Fark, he'll understand.

Do I sense a fellow Farker in my midst!?

Drew is my personal hero