Posted on 06/03/2006 10:55:22 PM PDT by sully777
TOKYO (Reuters) - A would-be Japanese bank robber asked staff how he should carry out the crime before meekly obeying a request to leave and then accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying.
The 58-year-old unemployed man went into a branch of the Saitama Resona Bank in the town of Kumagaya, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday, intending to rob it, a police spokesman said.
According to local media reports the man first asked a bank teller, "Any idea how you rob a bank?" The teller alerted another member of staff, who asked the man to leave.
"He left quietly when asked to," the police spokesman said.
However, the staff member escorting the man out of the bank noticed the knife sticking out of his pocket and a bloodstain on his trousers.
Police arrested the man for illegal possession of a weapon.
"He didn't brandish the knife at anyone ... but he injured himself in the leg," the police spokesman said.
Like all those from Hollywood, he is one of the great minds of the century.
I know a few people who work in Hollywood, and it's amazing the stories they tell about the hangers-on and yes-men who surround these people. No wonder they think George Clooney is some kind of genius. (Someone told me about his Oscar speech, in which he said Hollywood was at the forefront of making movies about social issues. What BS--they're so liberal and they didn't make a major movie about AIDs--"Philadelphia" until what, 1994?)
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Edward G. Robinson doesn't have an Oscar.
He was never even nominated for one.
I haven't seen a movie in 15 years.
Am I missing anything?
Lots of deserving people never got an Oscar--Hitchcock only got an honorary one, Kubrick for special effects, Scorsese, nothing, Cary Grant, nothing.
They give them out to people for copying the mannerisms of famous people like June Carter Cash and Truman Capote and Katherine Hepburn.
I wish I could say you were missing something, but I am a huge movie fan and I have gone to the movies maybe 3 times in 2006. I don't even have a movie rental membership. I have hundreds of DVDs, most of them to movies from the 30's-early 80's.
Of late I've liked The Aviator, the Lord of the Rings, Collateral.
You're not missing much. Movies are not only made pretty much only for kids these days, but for stupid kids.
They put out about two movies worth watching a year so a bit but not a lot.
Most criminals and would-be criminals are not masterminds; they are exceptionally stupid and lacking in common sense. Perhaps this is why they were attracted to crime in the first place. This is a prime example.
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