Really enjoy your comments and perspective Ark. Glad to see you back

im a bank manager, and i just transferred out of little rock, aka crimetown, and back to northwest arkansas. The branch i transferred to is super slow, and not in a bad area which = less chance of robbery and getting yelled at. My last branch, i’ve been robbed, spit on, and hexxed. Yup, hexxed.

I’ll try to make this short.

We have off-duty cops that work for us, one in each branch. This guy comes in, walks right by the cop, and up to me and asks where the bathroom is. I point to it, he turns and walks by the cop again, goes to the bathroom, comes back out, walks by the cop a third time, and comes up to me and hands me a note. The note says:

“Hello. This is a robbery. Please put all 100s, 50s, and 20s in the bag. Do not put any tracking in the bag. Do not alert police while I am in the building. Thank you.”

Then he hands me a gym bag. The cop was watching the whole time, since he saw the note. So I tried to make eye contact with the cop, and just kept stalling, acting like I was reading the note over and over. When the cop saw him hand me the bag, he came up behind him, grabbed him by the belt and said “Hey.” The dude turned around and I’ll never forget the confusion on his face. It was like he couldn’t believe the cops had gotten there that fast. He later told police that he thought that I had hit an alarm. He never saw him all three times he walked past him.

After seeing it was a cop, the guy flips and starts wrestling around. I yell at everyone to get out the back, and call 911. The two wrestle around until he breaks free and runs out, the cop on his heels. It was funny because I was telling 911 what was going on, and I had to run back to the drive thru to see where they were both going. Then I heard our door open up, ran back to the front of the bank and saw a guy standing in the doorway holding a gun. That was the first time that it got a little scary. I remember thinking ‘Who the fuck is that guy?’ Turns out, he was a detective who was in Blockbuster, which is where the girls from the bank all ran. But he freaked my shit out. That’s pretty much it. Pretty wild experience. The guy never had a gun, they caught him, and he got 25 years minimum in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Moral of the story I guess is make sure you take in your surroundings if your gonna rob a bank.

It made national news, including msnbc. Here is the video:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f86_1189163768&p=1

that our off duty guys are uniformed.

nice one. The video was on MSNBC, on Olberman’s show, during a stupid criminal segment. Yeah wolfpack, Little Rock has a ton of robberies. My bank just had the first fatal shooting in a robbery in the history of Arkansas. Last Christmas, a guy walked up, shot a teller in the back, put the gun to another girls face and made her give him all the money. Then he just turned around, said ‘Merry Christmas’ and calmly walked out, smiling the whole time. Guy that died was 22 years old.

he got life without parole. He was a young pup, so you can probably imagine what he’s doing in prison right about now…