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
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.
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.
um, careful, you do have to fly in here if you ever want a vacation here.
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
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?
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
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
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
SuperDork
7/20/10 5:58 p.m.
What if you walked in with no weapons at all? Just handed them the demand note?
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.
In the teller's defense he was armed with many pistils.
now Wally, that is funny! 
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.
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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
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.
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
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
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