Man robs bank with Craigslist and Tube

[Paganini]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-bank-robber-crowdsources-disguise-to-craigslist-floats-away.html

The guy deserves the money imo

Craigslist is a great place to sell that beat-up sofa or (for the supervillains among us) recruit your next batch of henchmen. Now, thanks to a Monroe, WA man, "bank robbery decoys" has joined the list of creative uses of the grassroots classifieds service.

According to The Seattle Times, a Craigslist ad was placed last week, offering road construction work at $28.50 per hour in Monroe, WA, a city northeast of Seattle. About a dozen men replied to the ad, and all received instructions to show up outside a Bank of America wearing a yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and a blue shirt.

As the men gathered outside the bank within the proper attire, however, another man wearing the same getup used pepper spray on a guard transporting cash from an armored truck into the bank. The suspect grabbed the duffel bag, ran 100 yards to Wood Creek, and made his getaway (floataway?) on what police believe to be an inner tube. Seattle FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs told the Times that armored car robberies are "quite uncommon," and that she's never heard of an inner tube serving as a getaway vehicle.

[NapalmEnema]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-bank-robber-crowdsources-disguise-to-craigslist-floats-away.html

The guy deserves the money imo

Joker is REAL :ohno::ohno:

Loved this story when I saw it - what a badass.

[Justinian]

uber

[rockyraccoon]

Joker is REAL :ohno::ohno:

Loved this story when I saw it - what a badass.

i too thought of batman.

[Siriel]

The guy deserves the money imo

Totally

[Scully]

Inner tube?

[kordoyn]

Brilliant.

[G.Struepp]

Inner tube?

I guess wood creek is a river, and inner tube: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=inner%20tube&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi


Pretty awesome.

[ClownFoot]

That is pretty sweet. Good planning on his part.

[Jangang]

That B Awesome!

[Rimayven]

Seems that with the way the economy is going for the US, even the crime genius has to cut on his expenses.

[Mippoose]

That was hilarious.

Kudos to this man.

[The Cougar]

Haha, wow. I wonder what he was thinking when he was sitting on that inner tube casually cruising down the river. Best getaway ever.

[Damwa]

I'll admit; that is a pretty impressive display of creativity, determination and overall coolness: creating a decoy via Craiglist, neutralizing the guard with a pepper-spray and escaping via inner tube... :ninja:

[Spk]

Haha, just plain awesome.

[nate4449]

Oh man, that was so leet.

I didn't know that people in this day and age could still manage to be that awesome.

[Eyrothath]

This guy can go ahead and rob me at anytime, this made my day..

[Lord Caim]

This guy knows how to commit a crime.

[Yamamoto]

This is so going to be used in a movie in the next 5 years.

[Killuminati]

Genius

[Damwa]

Within the next three month there will be thousands of Craigslist ads directing people to meet up in front of banks in all manner of silly outfits... :p

[ExiliuM]

HAAHAHAHA!!

That is THE most awesome crime ever. Period.

[Vanno]

Would have been funny if he drank some beers while floating away, and got ticketed for operating a vehicle while drinking.

[Spades Felligan]

Congratulations!

[TubeSock]

Tubes should not serve as perpetrators of crime.

[ClownFoot]

Tubes should not serve as perpetrators of crime.

Shut up! The man is a genius and pulled off his crime in the coolest way possible. You are just jealous.

[TubeSock]

Shut up! The man is a genius and pulled off his crime in the coolest way possible. You are just jealous.

I was intending to make a pun off my name. :bang:

[alhazred]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-bank-robber-crowdsources-disguise-to-craigslist-floats-away.html

The guy deserves the money imo


win just win

why have we not hired this man to hunt our enemies for us

(a guy that cool should be working for the people for 7 figures a year)

[Corpse]

This might be the coolest bank robbery I have ever heard of.

[Wickfield]

This might be the coolest bank robbery I have ever heard of.

It's pretty fuckin' awesome.

Another one I've heard of (also involving construction workers, hehehe), took place in eastern pennsylvania. Bunch of guys in construction worker's suits set up detours, a roadblock, etc, around a bank. They used a jackhammer and other tools to remove the night deposit box from the wall, loaded it onto the truck, cleaned up the roadblocks, and drove away. Pretty slick imo.

[Saturday Saint]

I'm sure you guys would feel a lot different if you had lost all the money in your account.

[kordoyn]

I'm sure you guys would feel a lot different if you had lost all the money in your account.

Wut? You don't lose money that gets robbed from a bank, it's all insured.

[Saturday Saint]

Wut? You don't lose money that gets robbed from a bank, it's all insured.

It's only insured to a certain point.

[Enticle]

Insane

[tehghost132]

It's only insured to a certain point.

I think its something like $100,000 that is insured. I doubt the bank could pin it to say that if it was more than $100,000 that it was all one persons though.

[cosimo84]

this is ultimately why I'm an agnostic and not an atheist......how can you explain the amount of awesome someone must be inspired with to tell himself:

"time to go rob a bank"
*grabs an innertube*


edit: it's too bad the cops didn't tail him on police-innertubes with lights and sirens on them.

[tehghost132]

this is ultimately why I'm an agnostic and not an atheist......how can you explain the amount of awesome someone must be inspired with to tell himself:

"time to go rob a bank"
*grabs an innertube*

ITS LIK GODS GIFT AM I RITE?

[cosimo84]

ITS LIK GODS GIFT AM I RITE?

UR

[Damwa]

ITS LIK GODS GIFT AM I RITE?

Not God, silly...

[Bloody blade]

You would think that someone that badass and brilliant would have money thrown at him from investors, or at least make a living doing something else. Still, that is sick.