[Mike Bates]

The cops should lighten up. This is a very funny stunt.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[w1andsodidwe]

The cops should lighten up. This is a very funny stunt.

I disagree. There is absolutely nothing funny about this.

[RedBeaconNY]

I don't see the humor in it. They have to take every threat seriously. Dumb dumb idea.

[atomicpossum]

Humor would be writing it on your ATM deposit envelope. This was just dumb.

[muir_redwoods]

"The cops should lighten up. This is a very funny stunt."

You try working as a teller and tell me how funny you find it. This is a serious matter and I hope the dope gets 5-8 to think about it.

How does a man get to be 45 years-old without understanding that you can't play cops and robbers with real cops?

[Windsong]

Lyons was charged with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation

Translation?

[trubluolyguy]

Yes. This was funny. About as funny as pointing a toy gun at a cop.



Hilarious.

[theDentist]

I went into my bank once, filled out a deposit slip and handed it and my check over to the teller. She looked at it and asked if I'd written anything on the back. No. She showed me that someone had written upon it, "This is a stickup." She had me fill out a new slip and placed my original in an envelope for the police. I never heard if they found out who'd done that.

[rawhide]

Some people are beyond stupid!

[satchmodog9]

Another in a long line of people too stupid to breed yet they did. How does one get to age 45 by being such a dumb ass.

[msnimje]

The cops should lighten up. This is a very funny stunt

Probably not to the bank teller. And it sure as heck would not have been if somebody got hurt.

[ladyinred]

This is funny to you? I find no humor in it. I think the guy is a nut personally.

[Keith in Iowa]

Anyone who thinks this is funny needs some kind if help...please seek it.

[Doohickey]

I'm all for practical jokes, but I don't get how this is funny. Is it some sort of irony thing with a little girl having the note?

[steveo]

"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.

You can't go swimming in a baseball pool,
But you can be happy if you've a mind to.

[Shazbot29]

The cops should lighten up. This is a very funny stunt.

Yeah, up there with calling in a bomb threat for an airplane (or anything). I mean, empty the terminal, turn th plane around if in flight, spend countless hours and thousands of dollars checking everything out. I am sure this was similar. Cops dispatched, teller probably damn near had a heart attack, bank operations screwed up for the rest of the day....

Hilarious.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

"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.

You can yell fire in a crowded theater if there is a fire. Joking about a bomb in your luggage is not the same as having a bomb in your luggage. Same for a stickup note versus a real stickup. The guy is a dumb ass, but why charge him with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation?

[konaice]

The guy was too stupid tp be left in charge of children, and anyone who thinks this is funny is close behind.

[Psycho_Bunny]

If you've ever worked for a bank when one of the branches has been robbed, you lose all perspective about what might or might not be funny regarding hold-up practical jokes.  It sends a chill through the entire company.

As stupid as it sounds, the tellers were probably scared to death:  it's not the least bit far-fetched to believe a bank robbery might use a young girl to pass a note to a teller in a real robbery.

[Larry Lucido]

At the police station, the arrestee was heard to say about the teller, "Oh, she was just so stuck up!"

[Psycho_Bunny]

Oh.  It's Mike.  I should have read who the poster was before I assumed it was some idiot being serious.