Bulletproof Glass Foils Bank Robber's Plan
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A bank clerk didn't need a weapon to ward off a would-be robber. When the masked man pulled out a gun, she just laughed in his face.
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A pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and was then blown up by a bomb locked around his neck helped plan the robbery and then got caught up in something "much more sinister," a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
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When a pair of convenience store robbers use hot coffee as a weapon, a dozen other crooks steal their idea. But terrorists are not nearly that predictable. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A man charged with robbing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot, but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said.
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BELFAST -- In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said yesterday.
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BELFAST -- On an icy, black Sunday night, police officers brought terrible news to the rural idyll of Kevin McMullan's home: A relative had just been killed in a car crash, they said. It was a lie, and it launched one of the world's biggest bank robberies.
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He put a mask on his face, pulled out a gun and demanded money. But when the bank clerk laughed in his face, the would-be robber was so humiliated he just ran away.
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The FBI released new details Friday about a bizarre bank robbery plot involving a bomb that was locked onto a pizza deliveryman's neck, saying the mastermind behind the crime wrote detailed instructions threatening death if his demands were not carried out.
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Police in Latvia were hunting for clumsy thieves who smashed their way into a supermarket in the western city of Liepaja, stole a cash machine (ATM) and then dropped it in their get-away, a police spokeswoman has said.
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That U-shaped bike lock that you thought was so secure may be easy pickings for thieves who have nothing more sophisticated than a Bic pen.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovaks were on the lookout for a foul-smelling bank robber Thursday after police said the thief had a nasty odor.    A gun-toting, masked man in his 20s, clad in a green sweat shirt, robbed a bank in the capital and took some $14,235 in various currencies, police said...
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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Virtual villains unplugged in foiled bank blag Swedish crooks almost managed to rob a bank using remote access gear attached to a computer, according to reports. The movie-style* ploy was foiled only at the last minute by an alert employee unplugging the kit, according to local prosecutors and cops.â¦
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SHREVEPORT, La. - A man who used a cardboard gun to rob a bank apparently wasn't paying much attention when he cased the building earlier and failed to notice it was across the street from an office used by Caddo Parish sheriff's detectives.
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Victim hit in chest after going to aid of security guard during robbery.
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MILWAUKEE - Call it the case of the perfect clue. A man handed a note demanding money to a teller at the Wells Fargo Bank Thursday, took the money and fled.
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A bizarre robbery in which a bomblike device was strapped to a bank employee is under investigation by Hollywood, Florida, police. The employee told officers that two armed men abducted him from his home, taped the device to him and told him they were activating a bomb, a police spokesman said.