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'Stick 'em up': Bandits rob banks with little more than bad spelling
Sac Bee ^ | 3/3/04 | Sara B. Miller - CSM

Posted on 03/03/2004 10:13:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/12/2004 6:06:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

That's a scenario the FBI has seen unfold in financial institutions across the country. Bank robberies rose 64 percent last year in New York City. Massachusetts saw a 30 percent rise - to 303 robberies. Heists were also up statewide in Utah, Oregon, and Oklahoma.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badspelling; bandits; bankrobbers; dontfightback; robbanks; scaredofguns; trustthegovernment; weenietellers

1 posted on 03/03/2004 10:13:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Alfred Blumstein of the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Them again???

2 posted on 03/03/2004 10:39:15 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: NormsRevenge
This is a robbery. I have a GUB"


3 posted on 03/03/2004 10:57:00 PM PST by montag813
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