A man who robbed one bank and attempted to rob two others in East Sussex has been jailed.
His first attempt was at the Nationwide Building Society in Terminus Road, Eastbourne, at 10.45am on March 18, 2021. Due to poor handwriting, the employee was unable to read the note and Slattery left the branch empty-handed.
-- Edited by dorian on Wednesday 12th of July 2023 01:51:21 PM
dorian said
01:54 PM Jul 12, 2023
Possum3 said
08:45 AM Jul 13, 2023
Crime career foiled by poor education - It seems that you need your 3 R's even to become a successful thief.
dorian said
10:43 AM Jul 13, 2023
Woody Allen is funny, but real life is funnier.
Whenarewethere said
11:14 AM Jul 13, 2023
Some failed robbery situations I read about years ago.
Person held up bank with "hand over the cash" written on back of an addressee envelope (envelope dropped in rush to escape). Police waiting at addressee home.
Person laying unconscious with head injury after throwing brick at plexiglass window pane.
Decades ago an Armour Guard robbery at a relative's work place. The robbers were the only ones that had a day off work!
Possum3 said
11:30 AM Jul 13, 2023
POS being shown very blurry CCTV of a robbery unsuitable for ID purposes says in interview; Oh look! It's me and John on TV. Two birds for the price of one.
I wish I could find a vid years back that showed a bloke hiding two live lobsters in his trackky pants trying to go through a cashiers checkout, guess where the lobster was clamping his claws...
dorian said
10:29 AM Jul 15, 2023
Possum3 wrote:
Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
Sent from my imperial66 typewriter using carrier pigeon, message sticks and smoke signals.
Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters:
CUTTACK, India, June 20 (Reuters) - Even in today's world of instant messaging, video calls, the internet and mobile telephones, police in India's eastern state of Odisha are preserving a flock of carrier pigeons for use when disasters sever communication links.
Police said the pigeons, which can fly at a speed of 55 kph (34 mph), for up to 500 miles (800 km) at a stretch, have proved a lifeline at least twice in the last four decades.
They played a vital role after communication lines went down in 1999, when a powerful cyclone hit coastal areas, as well as in 1982, during devastating floods in some parts of the state.
Possum3 said
12:38 PM Jul 15, 2023
dorian wrote:
Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters:
Nail salon robbery goes awry as customers completely ignore demands:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/07/07/atlanta-attempted-robbery-fail-cprog-orig-jc.cnn
https://web.archive.org/web/20210812110504/www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/jail-term-for-man-who-robbed-one-bank-and-tried-to-rob-two-others/
A man who robbed one bank and attempted to rob two others in East Sussex has been jailed.
His first attempt was at the Nationwide Building Society in Terminus Road, Eastbourne, at 10.45am on March 18, 2021. Due to poor handwriting, the employee was unable to read the note and Slattery left the branch empty-handed.
-- Edited by dorian on Wednesday 12th of July 2023 01:51:21 PM
Some failed robbery situations I read about years ago.
Person held up bank with "hand over the cash" written on back of an addressee envelope (envelope dropped in rush to escape). Police waiting at addressee home.
Person laying unconscious with head injury after throwing brick at plexiglass window pane.
Decades ago an Armour Guard robbery at a relative's work place. The robbers were the only ones that had a day off work!
Some good ones here, mostly confirmed:
https://darwinawards.com/cgi/search.pl?keywords=robbery&swishindex=darwin.data&swishindex=stupid.data&show_description=yes&maxresults=20&maxdisplay=20
Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-police-retain-carrier-pigeons-backstop-against-disasters-2023-06-20/
CUTTACK, India, June 20 (Reuters) - Even in today's world of instant messaging, video calls, the internet and mobile telephones, police in India's eastern state of Odisha are preserving a flock of carrier pigeons for use when disasters sever communication links.
Police said the pigeons, which can fly at a speed of 55 kph (34 mph), for up to 500 miles (800 km) at a stretch, have proved a lifeline at least twice in the last four decades.
They played a vital role after communication lines went down in 1999, when a powerful cyclone hit coastal areas, as well as in 1982, during devastating floods in some parts of the state.
See, some of us old farts still can show some smarts occasionally.