A funny crime report

[kershnic]

This totally cracked me up tonight so I thought I'd share.  

Brooklyn

A hapless robber passed a rambling note to a Downtown Brooklyn bank teller and then wound up fleeing empty-handed, police sources said.

The suspect went into the Chase Bank branch at the MetroTech Center at about 2:25 p.m. Nov 26 and passed a note that read, “Good afternoon bank robbery no panic no die pack no GPS all the money,” sources said.

The employee, 26, told the would-be thief that she didn’t understand the note — and he panicked, dashing out of the bank’s east entrance empty-handed, the sources added.

[twotrue]

haha! That's awesome.

And does it seem like NY has a lot of bank robberies (or attempts)? I've never heard of so many until I moved here and it seems like there is at least a weekly story about a bank robbery. Maybe it's just an upstate thing :-p

[kershnic]

Feb 14, 2013 7:35:17 GMT -5 twotrue said:

haha! That's awesome.

And does it seem like NY has a lot of bank robberies (or attempts)? I've never heard of so many until I moved here and it seems like there is at least a weekly story about a bank robbery. Maybe it's just an upstate thing :-p

Hm, I think a lot of bank robbery attempts don't really make the news so I think it would be hard to say if they're more common one place or another.  My sister said the same as you about there being more when she was living in Chicago several years ago.  

I occasionally search for my town on google news just to see if anything interesting is happening, and last summer I learned that someone tried to hold up my local bank (as in it is 2 blocks away and I bank there) at gunpoint in the middle of the day.   I live in a really safe town, so that's pretty crazy, but I didn't hear about it until that random search months later.