Do you think you could properly execute a bank robbery? Do you know anyone who has? If so, how?
Could you rob a bank?
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Yes.
Know your mark"
Snowmobile in a blizzard, transition car waiting,then transition car waiting. Be in and out In less than 5 no matter how much you get.
*I don't own a snowmobile @Hawkman98
What your definition of success?
I certainly don't think I could do it and never get caught.
But could I do it potentially, get a good amount of money and drive away, maybe. But never get caught. . . nah I'm not gonna be able to outsmart the FBI for very long.
I certainly don't think I could do it and never get caught.
But could I do it potentially, get a good amount of money and drive away, maybe. But never get caught. . . nah I'm not gonna be able to outsmart the FBI for very long.
Success:
At least 1 piece of money that that does not belong to you, you never get caught.
I watched a documentary on it on Netflix recently. Looked pretty easy.
Sure. I worked in banks right out of college. They were robbed while I worked there several times. Don't believe anyone was ever caught. Doesn't take a genius.
On the other hand, banks don't have much cash in the lobby anymore. It's all automated cash machines now so you wouldn't get much.
This topic comes up in a friend group chat about once a year.
Short answer is yes but I'd need a team of 4-5 guys.
Buddy 1 - Wheel man
Buddy 2 - Muscle
Buddy 3 - Maestro/planner
Buddy 4 - Crowd Control
Me - Safe Cracker.
Short answer is yes but I'd need a team of 4-5 guys.
Buddy 1 - Wheel man
Buddy 2 - Muscle
Buddy 3 - Maestro/planner
Buddy 4 - Crowd Control
Me - Safe Cracker.
I’m pretty confident I could execute the robbery and leave with cash. I’m way less confident that I’d be able to avoid jail for even 24 hours.
no freaking way
I don’t know how anyone can be a criminal these days. Way too much technology to get around.
I don’t know how anyone can be a criminal these days. Way too much technology to get around.
Was it about the dude in the treehouse?
I've thought about it and how I would do it.
I think I'd try a bank in a town similar to my size which is around 5k.
Start some type of a large distraction. Bomb threat? Start a fire? Not exactly sure.
Would have to steal a car of course as I'm not using my own.
With all the cameras around nowadays you better make sure your plan is SOLID.
I think I'd try a bank in a town similar to my size which is around 5k.
Start some type of a large distraction. Bomb threat? Start a fire? Not exactly sure.
Would have to steal a car of course as I'm not using my own.
With all the cameras around nowadays you better make sure your plan is SOLID.
If you've never seen the movie Heat, I highly suggest you do.
One of my favorites.
One of my favorites.
Initially I thought about just trying to sneak a bill when someone wasn't looking but they have a million cameras so likely no.
And if you come in there for a full on armed robbery the FBI will be on your ass.
I suppose if you wanted to meet the technical definition of success you could bribe a teller to miscount the bills they give to you from a withdrawal but the bribe would probably be bigger than the amount you got away with.
Sure, I could rob a bank and get away. I'd get caught though. I think there's way too much security/surveillance now. Back when Dillinger and Jesse James and Bonnie & Clyde were robbing banks it was pretty easy to get away with it because there weren't photos of them - just drawings that might or might not look very close to them, and could only be distributed manually.
I think Whisky has the right idea - multiple switches in multiple different unmonitored remote/forested places.
But like Belem said - banks aren't sitting on open cash like they used to.
It'd be WAY easier to just convince some old people that you're their grandson and you're in trouble, and they need to send you bitcoin/gift cards to get out of it.
I think Whisky has the right idea - multiple switches in multiple different unmonitored remote/forested places.
But like Belem said - banks aren't sitting on open cash like they used to.
It'd be WAY easier to just convince some old people that you're their grandson and you're in trouble, and they need to send you bitcoin/gift cards to get out of it.
Watch the documentary on the tree house bank robber.If you've never seen the movie Heat, I highly suggest you do.
One of my favorites.
He based everything on being the guy in point break and then when he and his buddy went and watched heat they completely upped the game.
Good doc.
Everyone is overthinking. You get a disguise that makes you look like an old man otherwise change your appearance. You walk into a bank in a part of town that was once nice but is going to seed, you slip the teller a note, you take the cash and you leave. Car without a plate and dump it somewhere. Cops take a long time to respond in crappier neighborhoods.
Issues are - you won't get much cash and the FBI will be after you.
If you want to score real cash from a bank hit the people filling the atms on a busy holiday weekend.
The last line is the big issue. The bank employees aren’t going to give much resistance, but you could still be thwarted inside if your plan sucks or you take too long, but cameras in and around the bank plus vehicle tracking via nearby business cameras, the ability to track cell phones, etc., leave a lot of things out there to screw up.
You would have to plan it extremely well and make zero mistakes. Even the slightest mistake would end you.
Agree with this, and also, you’re significantly increasing your own risk of physical harm or catching the dead.
200 bucks and you can buy a mask that's better than early 2000s Hollywood makeup.
Fwiw
I went to high school with a guy who was charged with 4 counts of second degree robbery for robbing multiple banks in CR. He was really smart in school but a dumb bank robber. He was just wearing a medical mask (this was before COVID) They found the masks and the jacket he was wearing in the search of his apartment.
Although after the arrest I could not find the resolution of his case. No word of a trial or anything so maybe he did get away with it. I just looked him up on Facebook and he just posted a day ago so I don't think he's in jail
Although after the arrest I could not find the resolution of his case. No word of a trial or anything so maybe he did get away with it. I just looked him up on Facebook and he just posted a day ago so I don't think he's in jail
I've watched enough Fast and Furious heists to know how to pull off a bank robbery brochacho
Why would you ask that? What have you heard?
I think that's probably effective if you're ~5'10", 180#. The farther away you are from that baseline, the easier it will be for them to find you. I can't hide that I'm like 6" and 80# away from that. The pool of possible suspects is going to be limited.
I'm more curious as to what mistakes he made that pointed the cops in his direction enough that they got a search warrant.
Ideally if one were doing this you would want to do something that isn't even going to point the cops in your direction.
Random Door bell cameras, ATM cameras, random security cameras, ever increasing random dash board cameras.
Vehicles with onstar or similar tech are always tracking even if you don’t pay for it.
Cell phone triangulation, smart watches, and fitness trackers pinging off wifi (don’t need to connect).
Homeland security satellites with 100% archived footage.
You will need a lot of luck.
You might get caught on a video stealing your getaway car days before actual robbery.
Carry nothing. Zero electronics. Small town. Hide in corn field 24 hours before robbery. Walk in rob the place. Walk back into cornfield and hide. Move only in dark via fields and eventually escape via a bicycle on trail system. Very risky but if you leave in a car my guess is you will be caught.
Vehicles with onstar or similar tech are always tracking even if you don’t pay for it.
Cell phone triangulation, smart watches, and fitness trackers pinging off wifi (don’t need to connect).
Homeland security satellites with 100% archived footage.
You will need a lot of luck.
You might get caught on a video stealing your getaway car days before actual robbery.
Carry nothing. Zero electronics. Small town. Hide in corn field 24 hours before robbery. Walk in rob the place. Walk back into cornfield and hide. Move only in dark via fields and eventually escape via a bicycle on trail system. Very risky but if you leave in a car my guess is you will be caught.
My older brother robbed a bank around 2006. He pretended to have a gun in his coat.
I think the color spray was in the cash bag. He was arrested quickly after.
He died from a drug overdose in 2017.
I think the color spray was in the cash bag. He was arrested quickly after.
He died from a drug overdose in 2017.
Valid.
You may be better going off the other way, wear giant, platform, boots and put on a bunch of weight with thr mask, make it so over the top they think they have nothing.
"He's 7 foot 390"
Google your local town bigger than 50k people and 'bank robbery'. They happen all the time and are almost never caught if just done once.
Not if I have to come in strong through the front door like in Heat.
I am robbing them with an online scam from a country without a U.S. extradition treaty.
I had the perfect criminal plan 20 years ago - make fake casino chips (before they started embedding RFID in the chips).
I am robbing them with an online scam from a country without a U.S. extradition treaty.
I had the perfect criminal plan 20 years ago - make fake casino chips (before they started embedding RFID in the chips).
The dumb ones do. You don't need a gun and it will just add to your sentence if you're caught. Tellers are trained to offer no resistance. Just pass a note, and take your cash.
Also, a smooth in/out also relies on people inside the bank acting predictably. If another customer tries to play hero or a bank employee does something unexpected or an off-duty cop just happens to walk in to talk to a banker, etc., shit can blow up fast and throw the whole plan off.
60% are caught
Not very good odds considering you will not get a life altering sum of money. But you will get a life altering sentence if caught.
I think with that, even if I get caught, the entertainment value in the security footage and the police stories might cause them to take it easy on me. "It was the damndest thing we'd ever seen!!"
