Fail. Epic.

an inner tube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Yub8I4XZI

Sure tell me where to be what to do and I will obey.

What’s the cue in her the mob ‘thingies’ where everyone shows up at once at a given time.

Laughs all around – but with alternative worth.

genius I say not, more so social opportunist.

then again – why do hotos of big foot always exit stage left?

That is all.

On the bullet-proof glass thing: Some US bank branches have them, some don’t; around here it seems largely based on neighborhood. Given that doing transactions through glass can be off-putting, I suspect banks calculate a tradeoff between providing a more customer-attractive environment and risking getting their teller cash drawers cleaned out now and then.

The reason bank robberies are “allowed” to happen is the same reason convenience stores are “allowed” to be robbed: because trying to resist them will very possibly result in people getting hurt or killed. Which is far worse than losing a bit of cash.

None of his robbers knew each other or him… This took it one better ;)

Although this guy seemed creative.

If he had any creativity he’d set up some innocent banker who’d have to spend years in prison before finally escaping to Mexico.

The reason bank robberies are “allowed” to happen is the same reason convenience stores are “allowed” to be robbed: because trying to resist them will very possibly result in people getting hurt or killed.

No, it’s because the security measures necessary to prevent them are more expensive than the annual loss due to robberies (and to hell with the risk to staff and patrons from the robberies). It’s easy to design banks that cannot be robbed by a random idiot with a pistol (many major branches of European banks do it, especially in Switzerland) but it’s cheaper to let them get robbed.

The “secure” banks can still be robbed, naturally, but it takes preparation and skill. You can rob a small US bank by waving a pistol at a teller; if you try that in the more secure banks then the teller will just tell you that they’ve only got change in their desk, and any significant amounts of money have to be brought up from the vault, which the security guards watching the cameras have just put on a 24-hour lockdown. Unless you have a way to break into the vault or suborn the security staff, there’s really no way to rob them, and no point in threatening anybody.

You don’t make banks secure by defending the tellers or by fighting the robbers. You do it by taking away the thing they’re trying to steal.

Pretty brilliant plan, though I hope they get the guy.