[quote]LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two masked gunmen managed to evade authorities after a bizarre bank heist, strapping what they said was a bomb to her midsection and forcing her to order employees to "take out all the money" from her branch.
The bank robbers got away with an undisclosed amount of cash from the Bank of America when it opened Wednesday morning, but no one was injured in the robbery. No arrests had been announced by late Wednesday night.
A Los Angeles County sheriff's bomb squad disabled the device, but investigators said it wasn't an explosive.
The bank manager was snatched in front of her home Wednesday morning, said sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker. She arrived at her workplace wearing a device the men had strapped to her stomach.
"She was told that it was explosives and she was ordered to go into the bank and take out all the money," Parker said. "She did do that in fear for her life."
The women then ordered her fellow employees to remove the cash from the bank and it was thrown to the men who were waiting outside, authorities said. Parker would only say there was "a decent amount" of money at the bank and the manager did enter the safe.
The two men, who were armed with handguns and wore ski masks, took off in a two-door car, possibly a Kia, and remain at large.
Parker said the woman remained inside the bank until a bomb squad arrived and removed the device from her body. The bomb squad later disabled the item with a robot. Nearby businesses were evacuated for a few hours as a precaution.
It's unclear if the woman knew the robbers. Investigators are trying to determine if there were any video surveillance cameras that captured the incident.[/quote]
[url]http://www.lawofficer.com/article/news/gunmen-strap-bomb-bank-employe[/url]
Pretty complex operation when you think about it. They would have had to figure out who was the manager, where they live, what time they go to work, etc. Then they came up with a fake-bomb to use and had the manager give them the money. Sounds like something from Hollywood.
This happened before. But the bomb was real and detonated and killed him, it was shot on video too.
It's not exactly hard to come up with a fake bomb and intimidate someone who's being held at gunpoint into believing it's an explosive. You're giving these dipshits too much credit, which is to say, any.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;37563072]This happened before. But the bomb was real and detonated and killed him, it was shot on video too.[/QUOTE]
More info on this, please.
Atleast no one was hurt
FIND THE BANK MANAGER
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;37563272]FIND THE BANK MANAGER[/QUOTE]
They don't know who they're messing with
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;37563272]FIND THE BANK MANAGER[/QUOTE]
Must not link payday bank manager mod...
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqjZyTBXbQ[/url]
Shit
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;37563072]This happened before. But the bomb was real and detonated and killed him, it was shot on video too.[/QUOTE]
pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;37563272]FIND THE BANK MANAGER[/QUOTE]
The moment I saw this thread, I thought exactly that.
[QUOTE=Pandamox;37565214]pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.[/QUOTE]
Jesus christ; poor guy! Fuck...
Damn, I wonder how much money they got away with
[QUOTE=Pandamox;37565214]pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.[/QUOTE]
Did the bastards that did this get caught?
[QUOTE=Pandamox;37565214]pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.[/QUOTE]
They also gave him a canegun.
[img]http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Cane-shotgun.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Pandamox;37565214]pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.[/QUOTE]
If anyone is interested.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Douglas_Wells[/url]
I found that in the interesting wikipedia articles thread a while ago, pretty interesting.
Yeah I read an article on the collar bomb thing in wired a loooong time ago, it was actually pretty interesting.
Sounds like something out of that one game.
Reminds of of 30 minutes or less
[media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9DoxS_nck[/URL][/media]
KIA - the best choice for a robber...
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37563079]It's not exactly hard to come up with a fake bomb and intimidate someone who's being held at gunpoint into believing it's an explosive. You're giving these dipshits too much credit, which is to say, any.[/QUOTE]
except these "dipshits" managed to get away with the monetary contents of a bank and haven't been caught
they probably won't, either
[QUOTE=Furioso;37580331]except these "dipshits" managed to get away with the monetary contents of a bank and haven't been caught
they probably won't, either[/QUOTE]
Can't money be tracked using serial numbers or something, either way making away with the contents of a bank is very impressive but it is going to be difficult to actually do anything with it without looking suspicious.
[QUOTE=RagamuffinIIII;37581659]Can't money be tracked using serial numbers or something, either way making away with the contents of a bank is very impressive but it is going to be difficult to actually do anything with it without looking suspicious.[/QUOTE]
yeah, but if they're smart (which, judging from the heist, they are) with the way they use it and don't make any huge purchases with stolen cash, they won't be traced
[QUOTE=Pandamox;37565214]pretty sure you're talking about this
[URL]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=865_1302150623[/URL]
NSFW obviously, but some guy had a bomb strapped to his neck which detonated
read some more on it, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and told him to rob a bank but the bomb exploded anyways. dayum.[/QUOTE]
Started to watch that but did not have the heart to watch a man explode.
Seems vaguely familiar:
[video=youtube;70kV_Wp5WpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70kV_Wp5WpE&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
Though in the video, it's one of the criminals that has the bomb on them.
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