Would-Be Bank Robber Gets Laughed At
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ZAGREB, Croatia - 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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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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MILWAUKEE - A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner.
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A Croatian armed robber abandoned a bank hold up after the cashier laughed at his order to "stick 'em up".
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&quot;You have a guy like Ray Lewis, who, I mean, I thought pretty much he was my friend. I mean, this is a guy, you know, double-murder case, he could have been in jail.
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ELKO, Nev. - The thief had the bank-robbing part down, putting his finger in his pocket to simulate a gun at a northeast Nevada bank on Tuesday. It was the getaway that proved a bit more difficult.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jan. 31--DURHAM -- A man was arrested Monday night and charged with robbing the downtown Mechanics & Farmers Bank last week.
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ARMED robbers escaped with Â£20 million in cash in the worldâs biggest peacetime bank robbery after looting the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast in a 24-hour hostage drama.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A banker who stole nearly &#36;16 million from the Bank of Montreal and blew much of it on prostitutes and fast cars has suffered intense public humiliation, his lawyer told a sentencing hearing Thursday.
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AIKEN, S.C. - A robber who used a rusty pitchfork to stick up a bank got away - and so far, finding him has been like looking for a needle in a haystack...
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Many people are finding themselves cornered by a loquacious stranger, especially one whom theyâre paying.
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PETER CAVE: It&#39;s perhaps the biggest and most audacious robbery in the UK since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, with more than 20 million pounds, or $50 million, missing after thieves emptied the vaults of a downtown bank owned by Australia&#39;s National
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BELFAST -- The gang that held two bankers&#39; families hostage as part of an audacious Belfast robbery posed as police officers and walked into their victims&#39; homes, neighbours said yesterday as more details emerged of one of the biggest cash thefts in
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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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KENNESAW, Ga. - There is little money to be gained from attempting to rob a bank that is still under construction, police say a Marietta man learned on Wednesday.
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Fine plonk and hugs turn gun-waving robber into party guest.
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A balaclava-wearing robber who held up a bank in northern Greece gave arresting officers a surprise on Friday when it turned out he was an off-duty cop.