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Bank robber hires decoys on Craigslist, fools cops [flees in innertube]
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by Erik Larson | October 7, 2008 at 10:50 am
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Bank robber attracts free decoys thru Craigslist, makes off with loot in innertube.
This story would be more amazing if Wall Street Banksters hadn't just robbed the American people of $700 billion by spraying "economic meltdown!" and "martial law!" in our face, after they've already made billions off the housing bubble they spent years inflating, knowing they could count on the Republocrats to bail them out when it burst.
In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities.
It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in an inner tube, and the cops are still looking for him. "A great amount of money" was taken, Monroe police said, but did not provide a dollar value.
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at 11:08 on October 7th, 2008
Very clever. Also reminds me of the Inside Man with Denzel Washington. They confused the cops and got away by dressing the hostages in the same outfit as them.
at 12:01 on October 7th, 2008
life imitates art imitates the chicken or the egg... when a computer can rob a bank or fleece the taxpayers, we'll know they've become "subhuman"