Robber Holds Up Bank One Block Away from 2000 Police

[TheNiteHwk]

Robber Holds Up Bank Two Blocks Away from 2000 Police

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...023&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

Is this guy really stupid or what? He tries to hold up a bank two blocks away from the police demo at City Hall where there was over 2000 police attending. What do you think? Was this guy playing the odds that the demo would serve as a distraction and no LE would respond quick enough to catch him? Or maybe he is so out of touch he did not even realize that the demo was going on? Or is he just plain stupid?

I say he is just an idiot and deserves to get caught.

 

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did he get caught?

 

[A-ROD]

These guys are just plain stupid. I will bet he had no idea there were that many cops a few blocks away.

 

[Jade4u]

Post the article here. All I got was a login page. I too want to know if he got caught.

 

[superquad1968]

One Question

What was Goober doing in Toronto?

 

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I hope they got away. Banks make too much money anyways. Rob the filthy rich bastards.














I bet some of you thought I was serious. I hope they got busted those dumbass's.

 

[superquad1968]

Just for you S4U2L

"Didn't even make it out the door before the holdup squad arrived, proving not all T.O. cops were otherwise occupied showing their solidarity in a contract dispute demo.


Indeed, the suspect was found patiently sitting on a chair, waiting for bank staff to produce the cash he'd demanded in his note — using a replica handgun to bolster his robbery bid — when officers with shotguns descended, responding to the silent alarm triggered by a teller.


"They didn't even have time to give him the dye-pack,'' a 51 Division detective who processed the suspect told the Star, in reference to the squirting device that is designed to ruin scrip obtained in a bank heist.


"I don't know if he's the stupidest robber we've ever had come through 51 but his name will certainly make our list of all-time dummies. Maybe he just didn't know that he was trying to rob a bank a block away from a police demonstration.''

Yes he was...

 

[TheNiteHwk]

Yes He did get caught...

Oh yes I forgot that you now have to register if you want to read The Star on-line.

The article is too long to copy the whole thing. To be fair this article was more about the police demo etc...


<Quote from today's Star>

He was either the ballsiest or the dumbest of bank robbers in Toronto history.

Just as thousands of miffed police officers were marching up Bay St. yesterday toward a mass rally at City Hall, this mook was sticking up a CIBC branch a short block away, at the corner of Yonge and Queen.

Didn't even make it out the door before the holdup squad arrived, proving not all T.O. cops were otherwise occupied showing their solidarity in a contract dispute demo.

Indeed, the suspect was found patiently sitting on a chair, waiting for bank staff to produce the cash he'd demanded in his note — using a replica handgun to bolster his robbery bid — when officers with shotguns descended, responding to the silent alarm triggered by a teller.

"They didn't even have time to give him the dye-pack,'' a 51 Division detective who processed the suspect told the Star, in reference to the squirting device that is designed to ruin scrip obtained in a bank heist.

"I don't know if he's the stupidest robber we've ever had come through 51 but his name will certainly make our list of all-time dummies. Maybe he just didn't know that he was trying to rob a bank a block away from a police demonstration.''

Or perhaps he figured they'd all be too busy trying to hold up the city with their contract demands. More precisely, holding a metaphorical gun — in the view of some — to the Toronto Police Services Board, which is tasked with negotiating a new deal for 5,500 uniformed officers and 2,200 civilian employees. Police association members have been without a contract since last Dec. 31.<end Quote>

 

[Jade4u]

Thanks guys.