Posted on 06/18/2008 6:21:13 PM PDT by george76
Bank employees said a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a pistol was thwarted in an attempt to rob the bank because the doors were locked.
The man fled the scene.
and he was unable to complete the heist,
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Usually that’s the way it works.
Well..... DUH!
So I closed the window and bolted it.
He shouted, “You can't do that!” and started slapping the window with his open hand. I think he even dropped the machete as he slapped the glass, screaming at me to open the window.
I managed to stop pointing laughing long enough to ask the other guy to call the police, but Einstein ran away before they arrived.
It’s always good to know there really are nimrods out there who qualify for the Darwin Awards or who make it to “Cops.”
After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stick up note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to the Bank of America.
Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK," and left the Wells Fargo.The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at the Bank of America.
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