Robber holds up bank, doesn't bother to get off his cellphone
By Darren Murph 
posted April 17th 2008 6:14AM
posted April 17th 2008 6:14AM
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Dude, I'm in your bank stealing your money
Can you hear me now? Good! I could of swear this was Verzion newest commercial =D
Ocean's 11? nice
"we can't imagine what the conversation here would've been like, but at least he made the most of whatever minutes he had remaining as a free man"
lol. Great line!
BORING.
I want to see someone rob a bank while texting on a numeric keyboard, at the same time buying ringtones and ringbacks, purchasing different cell phone games, downloading the newest Crazy Frog wallpaper, taking a picture of the horrified bank teller and messaging it to a friend ("OMG u wuldnt belieev her expression! L@@K!") while playing Guitar Hero Mobile.
...on an iPhone. Then, and only then, will I be amused.
ba dum ching
BORING.
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I'm sure you're a hit with all the ladies... You're a really funny guy.
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well then sir you will never be amused. Guitar hero mobile is only for verizon and plus it would never work on the iphone
Why is this on engadget......oooohhhh is he on an iphone??????
more importantly, this is far from the first time this has happened.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/12/national/main1041387.shtml
but god am i ever tired of someone always bringing up Apple, no matter what the story is about. It's not a goddamn newspaper, they can write about whatever they want
And the rules of free speech dictates that he can complain about whatever he wants.
I'm not complaining I actually enjoy reading about new apple products every once in awhile........its just funny
HE WAS TALKING TO HIS LOOK OUT AND GETAWAY
OBVIOUS
Or he coulda been attempting to rob tha bank with a bloody telyphone, like thah bloke was talkin' about in "Pulp Fiction."
-- "What happened to the girl?"
$%#%, there probably was no girl. That's not tha $#@%ing point. It was that he robbed the bank . . not with a gun, but with a bloody #@$#ing phone!
you know, that scene was so awesome in Pulp Fiction. reminds me of a few scenes from Snatch that relate from pointlessness.
"Who is goin' to mug two black guys, holding' pistols, and sittin' in a car that's worth less than your shirt!?"
Snatch is an awesome movie.
I've seen this type of thing before on one of those robbery surveillance tv shows, he's more than likely on the phone to a look out/get away driver.
if that is the case, i think a little planning would of been in order,
like getting a hands free set for his cellphone...
...i guess he dint have the money for one!!!
Yup - I work in the security department of a very large bank and i can say the majority of them are on cell phones when they are doing a robbery. I can also say that this location's camera set up needs help.
Isn't the idiot actually helping to provide one more clue for the police to get him?
Did you know that the average take from a bank robbery is only $2,000. Doesn't seem worth it when at least in California you get 25 years plus 5 years for every bullet; that's if you robbed the bank with a gun.
I see you've done some research huh? Yeah....not worth it right? Have you thought of plan B?
wow.. really.. really not worth it.
Thanks, that was actually more interesting than this article. Fun facts!
Does that average include all the people that don't get any?
That would kind of throw the average way off.
it does include people that don't get any but your average thief DOESNT get any or what he does get is hit by a dye pack in seconds.
Bank robberies dont work.
Goodness man, put some effort into it! Maybe the Pink Panther movies warped my criminal mind at a formative age, but doesn't the criminal sect have at least one or two geniuses that will entertain us at least once a year with a good heist?!?!? You know, slide under the frickin laser, do a backflip over the other one, hack the bank's vault with a handheld PDA, and do it w/o guns and people seeing you (guns are bad, they add like a mandatory 10 year sentence).
those guys dont get caught on camera
Exactly. But their heists do get reported. And the last one I can think of was an art, and/or perhaps, a (or "an"?) euro heist in Europe about two years ago.
The dearth of IQ and finesse in our criminal sector is painting the entire
American underworld with a bad(-er) reputation. I blame the XBox 360 and the PS3 for the dumbing down of our potential criminal masterminds.
I mean: honestly, does anybody really think it's as simple as Perfect Dark Zero made it out to be?
There was that £20 million cash heist in Tonbridge, UK some time ago...
r3loaded: yea, but didn't that involve guns and hostages and stuff? amateurs!
Wasn't it around Christmas that some stores like Best Buy were hit? The perps had cut a hole in the ceiling and cleaned the place out, or something like that. Sounded very movie-like.
tiuk: Thank you! Planning, ingenuity, no guns, no little old ladies getting scared. You have restored my faith in the American underworld.
The police should easily be able to track him as they can ask the phone company who was using the phone at the mast at that time.
But I doubt the police are that smart.
HEY!
There's two sides to every story. Is that an iPhone?
Can you hear me now?
if its not an iPhone, i bet its one of the first things he buys with the cash
i dont think so.. unless someone happens to come by an iphone and wants to get rid of it to buy some crack for his starving heroin baby's hooker mom.
I thought you can't pay for iphones with cash?
I've probably seen too many movies. But maybe he was on the phone with some guy pointing a gun to a loved ones head and he was being forced to rob the bank for someone else so that person wouldn't be killed.
and then what happened??
Well, obviously he put a cap in the bad guys face and had hot sex with a girl on a yacht.
It happens - we see a couple of those a year nationwide - more often it will be an employee's family.
More likely he was on the horn with his accomplice outside who was looking for cops.
I'm honestly jealous of his multitasking abilities. Robbing a bank while paying taxes on the phone? Good Lord!
He would have been the best at any profession if he just applied himself.
mmm.. honey.. wat exactly is it im supposed to rob again???
That cell phone seems larger than usual, that must be something else! Like a face warmer or something, cuz u know, you're cold when you rob banks.
He was talking to Microsoft's automated product activation "ASSistant" explaining that his copy of Windows was legit... he just upgraded his CPU... he got disconnected 30 seconds later when he was being transfered to India... After that he called 911.
OR OR
He is being blackmailed to rob the bank and the guy on the phone has his wife/girlfriend/daughter/son hostage and is giving him instructions over the phone..
Either that or I've been watching TOO much HBO!