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Man Arrested in Practical Joke Gone Awry
Yahoo News/AP ^ | 8/29/2005 | Yahoo News/AP

Posted on 08/29/2005 4:08:37 PM PDT by Mike Bates

Savannag, GA - A Savannah man was arrested after he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a note to a bank teller threatening a holdup, police said.

Michael Lyons, 45, told police that he and a group of girls celebrating his daughter's birthday were trying to play a practical joke. The note said "Give me all of your money, this is a stick up," according to a police report.

While Lyons was getting money out of an ATM on Friday, the girl went into the bank and handed the note to a teller.

The teller sounded the bank's alarm and police and FBI surrounded the building searching for suspected burglars.

Instead, they found Lyons and the group of girls.

Lyons was charged with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation, said Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Bucky Burnsed.

"You can't yell fire in a crowded theater, can't joke about a bomb in your luggage at the airport, and you can't write notes to cashier that say 'This is a stick up,'" Burnsed said.

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Information from: Savannah Morning News, http://www.savannahnow.com


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bankrobber; donutwatch; prettygirlfloyd
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To: buccaneer81; SamAdams76

Perhaps you gents will consider setting your options in accordance with post #44.


81 posted on 08/29/2005 7:41:50 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Boazo
Mike I'll remember this thread!

I think, Boazo, that I'll try to forget it.

82 posted on 08/29/2005 7:44:36 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

Funny? - Dumb, dumber, or dumbest, which are you?

He'll laugh all the way to the pen, and it'll be the birthday party to remember!


83 posted on 08/29/2005 7:45:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: Mike Bates

LOL, I know the feeling.........I've done more than my share too.


84 posted on 08/29/2005 7:47:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Funny? - Dumb, dumber, or dumbest, which are you?

What a thing to say. Many thanks for your insightful and penetrating analysis. You've obviously spent a great deal of time reviewing all the posts.

85 posted on 08/29/2005 7:51:34 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
"How many regulars on FR would actually think the guy's stunt was funny? Not many I suspect. Yet for some reason a number of FReepers believed that I did. Interesting."

We're likely to believe most anything about someone who promotes his own website here ;o)

86 posted on 08/29/2005 7:53:41 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: Mike Bates
"for you folks in Rio Lindo"

I guess that you got caught in your own trap. Part of the laugh about "people in Rio Linda" is that it really is the name of the town. There are others in California of a similar ilk: "El Granada" in San Mateo county comes to mind.

87 posted on 08/29/2005 8:00:12 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: w1andsodidwe

it may not be funny but it is also probably not convictable.

No criminal intent. (guilty mind, guilty act)

I think this is more a charge of criminal mischief than actual robbery.


88 posted on 08/29/2005 8:12:00 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: microgood
"The child loses a father, though"

Some father. Such a loss might be a good example of addition by subtraction.

89 posted on 08/30/2005 2:53:22 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: The Grammarian
"Sure you can. You just get to be the "real" robber, as this guy found out."

Operative word, "play"

90 posted on 08/30/2005 2:54:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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