Language barrier foils would-be bank robber
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A quick-thinking Croatian bank teller managed foil a robbery attempt when she pretended to not understand what an Austrian bank robber was demanding when he handed her a piece of paper with "I have a bomb, give ...
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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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TEMECULA, Calif. - A robber nicknamed the "9 to 5 bandit" was working late when he held up a Wells Fargo bank branch at about 5:30 p.m., the FBI reported...
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FREEHOLD, N.J. - Nira Nevins said only one of her many personalities robbed a bank, but they're all going to jail. Nevins, 55, woman maintains that an alternate, childlike personality came over her the day she robbed the bank.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A pair of Dutch burglars' bad luck shifted into high gear when they were caught fleeing the scene of an attempted break-in on bicycles belonging to the very policeman who arrested them.    Police in a suburb of the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen said the hapless burglars were trying to break into a house Sunday when neighbors alerted the police...
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EDINA, Minn. - The FBI says it may have reeled in the "Fishing Hat Bandit," a bank robber who has pulled 23 holdups in the Twin Cities area over the past year and a half.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A thief used a hook and line not to snag fish, but to remove bags of cash from a bank's night deposit box, police said.  Police would not say how much money they believe was taken, but think the thief made off with 11 deposit bags, Bloomington police Sgt.
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One person is believed to have been killed and another injured in a suspected armed robbery at a bank.
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Leave the gun. Bank robbers have found an easier way to make off with other people's money: Around the country, thieves have hot-wired forklifts at construction sites, chugged up to banks and scooped up their ATMs, with all the cash inside.
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Slovaks were on the lookout for a foul-smelling bank robber Thursday after police said the thief had a nasty odor.
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Tracking down the gang behind the theft  of $43 million from a bank in Northern Ireland will be tough  given the professional nature of the crime, police said on  Wednesday.
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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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Smoking pants finger hapless blagger A bank robber who made off with a wad of cash from an Orlando bank last Friday had his collar felt after his trousers exploded as he attempted to make good his escape, the Orlando Sentinel reports.â¦
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A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery said it was considering the drastic measure of taking several denominations of notes out of circulation as a means of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul.
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London - A bank heist in the Northern Irish capital of Belfast, in which two senior members of staff and their families were held hostage, may have netted the robbers more than Â£20m, according to reports on Tuesday.
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The FBI is looking for suspects in a scam that uses bomb threats to extort money from banks and stores, officials told CNN. For the past week, banks and stores in 12 states have been hit by the scam, in which a caller claims there is a bomb that can be detonated if workers don't wire money to a specific account.
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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.