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Bank Robbery demand notes literary genius or failure?

May 24, 2018February 14, 2021 The Banker

Do Bank Robbery demand notes have literary merit, or just a detail in a criminal process? It could be argued that there are certain features and language that bank robbers use when penning these lines, creating its own genre in the process. Apparently, someone thought these demand notes made for

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Gib Me All Your Money

November 22, 2017February 14, 2021 Evan H

You are a bank teller at Capital One’s branch in Chinatown. A man walks up to you and gives you a note saying, “This is A ROBBERY—LARGE Bills—NO DYE PACKS/No GPS.” He also takes out a pink and silver video camera and points it at you. You give him money

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The Art of Robbing a Bank

October 20, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

“It’s not crime; It’s artwork… He’s an intellectual” –New York Post Joe Gibbons, at 61 years old, pleaded guilty this year to robbing a bank in Chinatown. His robbery did not involve weapons, however. He simply wrote a note that read “This is a bank robbery. Large Bills. No dye

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The Picasso Dilemma- Artist locked away for stealing

October 15, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

The act of stealing is a crime a crime that can span across a number of aspects of our lives. Stealing can be something as typical as taking an object from someone else, a robbery, breaking into a bank and taking the money there, or it can even be the

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