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Would-be bank robber demanded money, then Arabic interpreter
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | August 31, 2016 | Libor Jany

Posted on 08/31/2016 4:18:35 PM PDT by LouieFisk

"Authorities: Would-be Minnetonka bank robber demanded money, then interpreter. Authorities say the suspect appeared to be in his 50s and spoke only halting English."

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: arabic; crime; diversityisstrength; minnesota; robbery
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Apparently no Arabic translator was available for wannabee robbers. And they call themselves a full service bank?
1 posted on 08/31/2016 4:18:35 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

LOL! “All your money are belong to us!” ;)


2 posted on 08/31/2016 4:20:49 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: LouieFisk

Yep what sort of full service bank are they, if they dont have foreign language interpreters, in case a foreigner holds up the bank??????

Sarcasm


3 posted on 08/31/2016 4:22:15 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Frank_2001

LOL! “All your money are belong to us!” ;)
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Heh. I’m trying to imagine some poor teller trying figure out WTH the guy was trying to say.


4 posted on 08/31/2016 4:26:16 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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Next thing you know the government will require banks to have interpreters for bank robbers who don’t speak English.


5 posted on 08/31/2016 4:27:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: LouieFisk
"The manager had an employee call an employee at another branch who speaks Arabic," the affidavit stated. "The translator stated the male was asking to make a deposit."

The Arabic speaking employee is lying... I wouldn't trust keeping that person on the payroll.

6 posted on 08/31/2016 4:32:55 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: LouieFisk

Another Clinton/Obama “dreamer”


7 posted on 08/31/2016 4:33:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: LouieFisk
From when Woody was still funny:

Bank Teller #1: Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?
Bank Teller #2: Gun. See? But what does "abt" mean?
Virgil: It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.
Bank Teller #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?

8 posted on 08/31/2016 4:35:30 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: LouieFisk

Praise Alluh and Pass The Ammunition, er, I mean Pass the MONEY!

Obama and the complicit GOP-E traitors on Cap Hill have SCREWED America with millions of these hostile enemy forces now brought into USA (and at our expense, too!)


9 posted on 08/31/2016 4:47:19 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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it would be eaaier and lower cost in the wages department, for the bank to just put an “Allah Akbar” button on its ATM machines... push it and the entire bank explodes just after all its money is dispensed in the cash slot for the Moslem jihadist

bank doesn’t have to pay for Arabic interpreters this way, the entire process is neatly automated


10 posted on 08/31/2016 4:55:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: LouieFisk

Translate this you pouge

“Chicago. Bang. Bang. You ded”


11 posted on 08/31/2016 4:58:48 PM PDT by ASOC
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To: LouieFisk

Yes, there was, a teller at another branch, but he obviously didn’t understand either, as he thought the guy wanted to make a deposit.

The holdup note, which mentions a bomb and hostages, is unintelligible.

But the best of the article was saved till last:

“The note was written on the back of a withdrawal slip with a bank account number that police traced to a 31-year-old man they believe was the suspect’s accomplice...”

A good article for a laugh.


12 posted on 08/31/2016 5:00:54 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: jonascord

“Bank Teller #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?”
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I’m waiting for the bank video to catch the Arabic interpretation of that Take The Money And Run scene


13 posted on 08/31/2016 5:07:03 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: VanShuyten

Learning to assimilate . Perhaps Govenor dufus can get him in a language program, if he’s not too busy helping block the freeway.


14 posted on 08/31/2016 5:07:20 PM PDT by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: LouieFisk

“I am holding a gub.”


15 posted on 08/31/2016 5:07:44 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: LouieFisk

This is the stupidest story I have read about a bank robbery.

Unfortunately I live in MN where even in lousy English it appears the man was attempting a bank robbery; he was threatening a bomb explosion; threatening the man’s family, etc. I wonder if he had stated “Allahu Akbar”, the police would have understood it better. Probably not, since we all must be PC and never think ill of others who are ‘foreign” or Islamic.

An so life goes on until the next time a building explodes and questions are asked about ‘who was that man, and why did we not watch him closer.

One last thought. The would-be robber needed a translator, so an Arabic speaker was brought in. How could we trust the interpreter? For all we know he could have been an accomplice. Oh, woe is me.


16 posted on 08/31/2016 5:12:37 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: LouieFisk
He needed cash for the strippers!


17 posted on 08/31/2016 5:17:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: LouieFisk

No, no! It wasn’t a robbery! He thought the bank was a mosque and asked for the Mullah, and the teller thought he said he wanted the moola. That’s why he needed an interpreter.


18 posted on 08/31/2016 5:26:57 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

LoL


19 posted on 08/31/2016 5:37:04 PM PDT by relee (Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Cementjungle

One slick bugger looking out for the other one. Fire him ASAP.


20 posted on 08/31/2016 6:49:49 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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