Is the Age of the Bank Robbery dead?
We’ve all seen and love a good crime caper at the movies…but is the age of the real bank robbery dead? So much crime seems to be cyber crime and identity theft these days.
Increased road traffic means getaways are hampered. Every bank is literally built like a fortress with steel rollers, cctv, thick glass, paint sprays etc etc.
So is it all over for your humble balaclava-clad, sawn-off weilding thug?
I don’t know if you keep up with the news, but I live in Chicago and there seems to be an epidemic of bank robberies in this area lately. Albeit they don’t get away with much money, but the fact is that they DO get away. I personally blame it on president Bushs’ raping of our economy. Rest assured, the Age of the Bank Robbery is still very much alive. They just don’t escape in ’65 Chevy Novas anymore.
No, just read the daily news, particularly in my old hometown of Memphis. Banks get robbed all the time there.
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For the most part, pretty much. There may still be anks ins small towns that are vulnerable to that kind of attack, but for the most part it just isn’t possible anymore.
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Notes and coins account for a smaller and smaller part of the money that changes hands. Most money used to be numbers in account books: now it’s numbers on computer records.
What’s the point of going into a bank branch and stealing the small stuff when there’s rich pickings from cybercrime? The present day equivalent of Butch Cassidy is the man in Lithuania who keeps sending out all those emails asking for your log on details.
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I don’t know if you keep up with the news, but I live in Chicago and there seems to be an epidemic of bank robberies in this area lately. Albeit they don’t get away with much money, but the fact is that they DO get away. I personally blame it on president Bushs’ raping of our economy. Rest assured, the Age of the Bank Robbery is still very much alive. They just don’t escape in ’65 Chevy Novas anymore.
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