<p>Can you believe this? My nephew, who attends the most expensive prep school in our region, has a (alleged) bank robber for a teacher. Here’s the funny part (according to my inside source) - the person who called 911 saw him (allegedly) putting on a face mask in the parking lot. Which lead us to discuss, when is the right time to put on the mask if you’re (allegedly) going to rob a bank??? :D</p>
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<p>Too bad he’s not a public school teacher. Then he’d be protected by tenure.</p>
<p>Guess they need to pay better!</p>
<p>This is bizarre in the same vein as the astronaut incident - people just do bizarre things sometimes.</p>
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No mask. If you’re going to rob a bank, you do it so that nobody knows you’re doing it except you and your teller. Do it in winter, so you can get away with wearing a scarf, hat, and some sunglasses. Then you just go up to a teller, get the money, and leave. They’ll press the silent alarm and by the time tey tell someone you’ll be gone already. I was a bank teller once, and they trained us on this stuff. :)</p>
<p>I wonder why he did it. Money? Excitement? Impulse?</p>
<p>Based on what I remember of the “zombie bandit” in Detroit (bank robber with such a blank look that witnesses said he looked like a zombie. He ended up being a well respected lawyer), I imagine that either the robber has a mental health problem such as being bi-polar or he has a drug problem such as being addicted to crack or powder cocaine.</p>
<p>True story about hapless bank robbers
Once,maybe 25 years ago I was on a teller line at a local bank(pre ATM’s)
.They guy in front of me had a coat over his arm with a paper sticking out in his hand.I read it and it was a robbery note.I took a look at his face and left the bank.This was way before cell phones and I had no way of knowing if he had a gun. I ran to a pay phone on the corner and by the time the cops came he had left the bank with a few thousand dollars IN A CAB!!! The cops tracked the cab and arrested him at his home(this was a NYC borough). I was featured in a local newspaper in an article entitled “Nabbed by a Nosey” (meaning I was nosey for reading the note).</p>
<p>What a role model for our kids. Where will it end? Well, at least they still have astronauts.</p>
<p>(Edit: Maybe our hero was going to use her robotic arm experience on the shuttle to remove that 900 mile diaper.:eek:)</p>
<p>(um…unless those astronauts happen to be kidnappers…)</p>
<p>Did we talk about this already?</p>
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Just a note - I am a public school teacher in Texas. We do not have tenure, and we are easily fireable. :)</p>
<p>They really do need to start paying teachers more!</p>
<p>cathymee-““Nabbed by a Nosey” (meaning I was nosey for reading the note).” What a funny story. How long did it take to live that nickname down?</p>
<p>I agree with Northstarmom that it was probably one of the biggies (drugs, gambling, …) or a mental issue. </p>
<p>Yes, Curm, who is left for these little tykes to look up to? Maybe firefighters?</p>
<p>wow, that is so weird, and creepy! I never knew anyone who knew someone who knew a bank robber! I guess I still don’t (technically). We are still trying to catch our local bank robber. He has hit about 8 different banks in the area, each time wearing a different hat.</p>
<p>I always think DRUGS in cases like this. But who knows. Could be gambling debt, or he may just be a plain old lunatic.</p>
<p>LOL! My husband teaches at an expensive prep school also. Maybe we can pick up some tips.</p>
<p>Maybe his brother is in jail and he needs to get him out?</p>
<p>NJres: I told my H not to wear a hat when stopping at any banks in Summit. </p>
<p>curmudgeon: Isn’t that diaper tidbit fascinating? H & I were chuckling about how utterly bizarre & unexpected it is for an astronaut to plan a crime like this, have a trunk full of weapons, travel hundreds of mile to kidnapp her target, & yet we all seem strangely focused on the diaper. As if all the other stuff is normal…</p>
<p>SS, I guess it “depends” on your perspective. (Sorry. I apologize.;))</p>
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LOL!
Now we’ll see a new Depends commercial, I guess. Remember that annoying one where the middle-aged Thelma & Lousie gals travel cross county? Driving a convertable, trying on wacky Mexican hats, all the while wearing their trusty adult diapers? I guess they’ll be filmled inside the space shuttle.</p>
<p>Try as they might, the Depends ad agency just can’t seem to make adult diapers seem cool.</p>
<p>Any other new on this “robber teacher”? I can’t imagine what prompted this act?</p>
<p>Think Black Bart, the scourge of the Mother Lode circa 1875-1883.</p>