[quote]A man responsible for a Manhattan bank heist never brandished a weapon, but instead used a bouquet of flowers to get his not-so-subtle message across to the teller. The robber with a sensitive side allegedly walked into Bank of Smithtown in downtown Manhattan clutching the brightly colored bouquet around 9 a.m. on Thursday.
He appeared nervous, but those who saw the man pacing back and forth in front of the building likened his symptoms to a man in love, perhaps summoning the courage to propose, reports [URL="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bouquet_bandit_dollars_scents_QePWHoIOwEbxbULul6puCM?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=#ixzz0uDs0WgpF"]The New York Post. [/URL]
The suspect, dressed in jeans and a blue T-shirt, nonchalantly approached the bank teller and pulled a note from the bouquet which was a far cry from a declaration of love.
Instead, it read: "Give me all your 100s, 50s," and "don't be a hero."
The teller proceeded to hand over approximately $400, but cleverly included a dye pack within the bills.
Once the "hopeless romantic" had his hands on the loot, he ditched the arrangement, and walked out of the bank with the cash. But as he reveled in his fortune, the dye pack detonated in his hands, says The New York Post.
According to the paper, this is not the first time that the bouquet bandit has struck.
Authorities say that just last week the suspect pulled off another robbery at a Capital One branch in Manhattan armed with a small potted plant and a note that read, "Give me all your 50s, 100s. No dye pack, no bait money [marked bills]."
That time the bandit, whom police describe as approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and 30 years old, helped himself to over $2,000.[/quote]
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I don't understand how this works.
Don't be a hero.
Flowers hurt really bad.
His financial wealth must have bloomed after that robbery.
"Cleverly slipped in a dye pack"
Don't all banks have to do this?
It's really simple, people. If a man comes into a bank and demands the money, and says he's armed, you oblige him. The money is insured, and no one needs to get hurt. Plus, he's probably going to get caught eventually anyway.
There's a bank a short drive from where I live that got robbed. All the robber did was tap on the door at closing time, said he had a gun and demanded the money. They gave it up immediately. A few weeks later, they arrested him and his accomplice, who was a teller at the bank.
This man is quite smooth
Terminator 2 comes to mind
How is this a robbery? He just said give me all your money. He didn't say he was armed or anything, just asked for money and the bitch at the counter gave him 400$. :V:
what is a dye pack? never heard of that
[QUOTE=Hendo;23513945]what is a dye pack? never heard of that[/QUOTE]
Basically it's a bag of really hard to remove and very conspicuous paint they put in stacks of money to make it obvious that you stole some. The way it works is that that the bag bursts, covering your hands in the paint, which shows you've stolen some money from a bank recently.
[quote=Wikipedia]A dye pack is a radio-controlled incendiary device used by some banks to preemptively foil a bank robbery by causing stolen cash to be permanently marked with red dye shortly after a robbery.
In most cases, a dye pack is placed in a hollowed-out space within a stack of banknotes, usually $10 or $20 bills. This stack of bills looks and feels similar to a real one, with new technology allowing for the manufacturing of flexible dye packs which are difficult to detect by a criminal handling the stack.
When the marked stack of bills is not used, it is stored next to a magnetic plate near a bank cashier, in standby or safe mode, ready to be handed over to a potential robber by a bank employee. When it is removed from the magnetic plate, the pack is armed, and once it leaves the building and passes through the door frame, a radio transmitter located at the door will trigger a timer (typically 10 seconds), after which the dye pack will explode and release an aerosol (usually of Disperse Red 9) and sometimes tear gas, intended to permanently stain and destroy the stolen money and mark the robber's body with a bright red color. The chemical reaction causing the explosion of the pack and the release of the dye creates high temperatures of about 400 degrees Fahrenheit (204 degrees Celsius) which further discourage a criminal from touching the pack or removing it from the bag or getaway vehicle.[/quote]
Yeah and like each sample of dye has a unique chemical mix, not some unique chemical it's all the same it's just in slightly different proportions so that each can be traced back to each individual bank.
Fuckin forensics I love how that shit works!! :science:
Fucking badass shit here:
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Authorities say that just last week the suspect pulled off another robbery at a Capital One branch in Manhattan armed with a small potted plant and a note that read, "Give me all your 50s, 100s. No dye pack, no bait money [marked bills]."
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He robbed a bank with a potted plant, this man is a king.
They should make it legal to demand a bank give you $50 and $100 bills but illegal for the bank to actually give them the money.
