GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/20/10 2:13 p.m.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/20/bouquet.bandit/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29

Hand over the cash, or I'll blow your brains out! Well I mean you will...from the sneezing...you're allergic right?

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/20/10 2:14 p.m.

Makes me wonder what the wierdest thing you could possibly use to rob a bank would be. Because flowers are CLEARLY too menacing.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/20/10 2:55 p.m.
mndsm wrote: Makes me wonder what the wierdest thing you could possibly use to rob a bank would be. Because flowers are CLEARLY too menacing.

I always thought it would be fun to make a very thin and delicate looking plexiglass sculpture, totally transparent and with very little mass to it, with an LCD HUD-style countdown clock and leave it by a major US landmark, to see if the bomb squad takes it seriously or just picks it up and drops it in the nearest trash can without looking back.

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan Reader
7/20/10 3:06 p.m.

um, careful, you do have to fly in here if you ever want a vacation here.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/20/10 3:18 p.m.
nutherjrfan wrote: um, careful, you do have to fly in here if you ever want a vacation here.

If you'd seen my current passport photo you'd know that's the least of my problems

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/20/10 3:20 p.m.

Bah, I've said way worse and the NSA/FBI/CIA/CSI hasn't come and gotten me yet. Seriously, how dangerous could a bunch of random gear heads and car nuts be?

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan Reader
7/20/10 3:22 p.m.

lol

racerfink
racerfink Reader
7/20/10 3:27 p.m.

Yeah, apparantly, we're only menacing to ourselves. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/i-think-alcohol-was-involved-in-more-ways-than-one/24419/page1/

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/20/10 3:55 p.m.

See? We can't even get the fuel into the car to get it to wherever to do whatever it is we're doing! We're too busy trying to ride it around a parking lot for such high class ventures.

alex
alex Dork
7/20/10 5:47 p.m.

Are they really thieves if they just ask for the money and the teller gives it to them? I know it's every bank's policy (and so does every other halfwit in this country), but if these guys with flowers and oxygen tanks just got laughed out of the building, none of this would be news.

If somebody asks me for a buck and I give it to them, can I report it to the police and say he robbed me with the shirt he was wearing?

Salanis
Salanis SuperDork
7/20/10 5:58 p.m.

What if you walked in with no weapons at all? Just handed them the demand note?

triumph5
triumph5 Reader
7/20/10 6:13 p.m.

In reply to Salanis: Note only. It's worked in the past. Put yourself in the teller's shoes. Would you put your life on the line to protect other peoples INSURED money, or give the not-bearing person what they want. No question what I'd do, as have others.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/20/10 7:38 p.m.

In the teller's defense he was armed with many pistils.

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan Reader
7/20/10 7:43 p.m.

now Wally, that is funny!

JoeyM
JoeyM GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
7/20/10 7:45 p.m.
Wally wrote: In the teller's defense he was armed with many pistils.

...security guards stay in the bank and won't pursue the robber....clearly, they are stamen. (Sorry, best I could do. )

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/20/10 7:49 p.m.
Wally wrote: In the teller's defense he was armed with many pistils.

LMAO

Duke
Duke SuperDork
7/22/10 9:27 a.m.
mndsm wrote: Makes me wonder what the wierdest thing you could possibly use to rob a bank would be. Because flowers are CLEARLY too menacing.

I've seen security camera footage of a guy successfully holding up a local bank branch with a live lobster.

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/22/10 9:29 a.m.
Duke wrote:
mndsm wrote: Makes me wonder what the wierdest thing you could possibly use to rob a bank would be. Because flowers are CLEARLY too menacing.
I've seen security camera footage of a guy successfully holding up a local bank branch with a live lobster.

Free money AND a tasty dinner? That man/woman knew what was up.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/22/10 10:36 a.m.

Oh saw on CNN the guy was arrested:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/21/bouquet.bandit.arrest/index.html

So Flower Crime doesn't pay.

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/22/10 10:48 a.m.
GameboyRMH wrote: Oh saw on CNN the guy was arrested: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/21/bouquet.bandit.arrest/index.html So Flower Crime doesn't pay.

Let's hope he doesn't wilt on the stand, because I'm really curious as to where the idea stemmed from.

Mental
Mental SuperDork
7/22/10 12:03 p.m.
mndsm wrote:
GameboyRMH wrote: Oh saw on CNN the guy was arrested: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/21/bouquet.bandit.arrest/index.html So Flower Crime doesn't pay.
Let's hope he doesn't wilt on the stand, because I'm really curious as to where the idea stemmed from.

If he does wilt, he is a Pansey

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