[Vision2020] This Bank Robber Gets No Respect - or Money

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (December 31, 2006) edition of the Jersey Journal (Jersey City,
New Jersey) -

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This bank robber gets no respect - or money 
Saturday, December 30, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER 

Send this guy back to bank robbing boot camp. 

A would-be robber left two Jersey City banks empty-handed yesterday when
tellers at both refused to comply with his demands for cash, police said. 

He fled North Fork Bank on Ocean Avenue just before 11 a.m. after a teller
told him the bank didn't honor hold-up notes, police said. 

Then, about a half-hour later, he walked out of Washington Mutual, at Sip
and Bergen avenues, after a teller there lectured him on not being able to
read a sign on her drawer that said, "no cash," police said. 

Wearing a gray hoodie, black leather jacket, and sunglasses with rhinestones
around the rims, the man slipped his hold-up note to a teller at the North
Fork and the teller said, in a loud voice, "Sir, we don't accept notes here.
How can I help you?" police said. Apparently nervous, the robber grabbed the
hold-up note and walked out, police said. 

When he walked into the Washington Mutual, he handed over a note that read:
"Be quiet. Give me cash from the register," police said. 

The teller explained that no cash was kept in the drawer he was looking at
and then barked at him, "Can't you read the sign on the drawer? It says 'No
cash,'" according to police. 

He left that bank and was last seen walking along Bergen Avenue toward
Newkirk Street, police said. 

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


"Madness does not always howl.  Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end
of the day saying, 'Hey, is there room in your head for one more?'"

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