Former Bank Robber Breaks Down 11 Bank Heists In Movies | How Real Is It? - YouTube

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This scene here is very high-tech. [laughs]
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There are guys in the military,
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certain groups around the world
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that can absolutely do this.
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Hi, I'm Cain Vincent Dyer.
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I committed over 100 bank robberies
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in a period of almost two years.
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After turning myself in,
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I decided to form a coaching company
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that helps people transform their lives.
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And today we are going to be judging
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the authenticity of bank-robbery scenes
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in some of our favorite movies.
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He has on this helmet,
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so he doesn't need a mask.
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He doesn't look like he'd be coming in to rob, necessarily.
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It looks like he just kept his helmet on,
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which guys do all the time.
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I can really, really relate to this,
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him wearing that backpack.
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I would sometimes either wear a backpack
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or a duffel bag strapped around the front,
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and you can still have the control of your hands.
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That's the only drawback --
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if you get any kind of tracker or dye pack,
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you walk off, and that dye pack explodes,
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he's wearing it on his chest.
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Luke: Fuck.
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This is so real.
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It typically happens your first time or two.
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Bank robbery is bad enough, so,
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just to put that out there.
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What we know from watching the movie
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is he's in a really desperate situation.
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Sometimes the desperation kind of
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overrides the moral compass.
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It's very accurate.
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It takes a second for him to pump himself up.
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Luke: You! Get up!
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He has tape.
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He doesn't want those gloves coming off.
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So obviously he's really conscious
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of not leaving any type of fingerprints.
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Also, it's holding his sleeve to the jacket down,
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which could be covering up some type of tattoo.
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Interesting that he picked a bank with glass.
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Because of the glass, he's got to throw it over to them,
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and, you know, they could put
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any kind of device in that bag.
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It almost shows more so the desperation,
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that he went into this bank that is secure,
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with glass and everything like that,
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but he was still so desperate that it didn't stop him.
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[motorcycle engine sputtering]
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Son of a --
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Him having a problem with his motorcycle
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is something -- sure, it's happened.
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[police sirens blaring] [tires squealing]
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They just blow through that red light
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with all those cars coming.
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I don't think a
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intelligent police officer would do that,
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just because you're putting a lot more people at risk.
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I would actually rate this
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a 9.
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Going into the bank, leading up to the bank,
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preparing, getting nervous -- everything he did,
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even the mistakes he made inside,
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were actual mistakes that if you haven't done it,
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you would probably make.
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This vault that looks like no one could ever get in
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except for probably the US military.
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We have to keep in mind that, this movie,
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everything about this movie
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is supposed to be over the top.
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Yes, they do have very intricate lock safes
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and things like that, timed lock safes,
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things that are really hard to get into.
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But a lot of time, during business hours,
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they will keep certain safes open
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just so the employees can have access.
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I learned everything.
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So, at every bank I went into,
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I knew whether it was going to have a safe
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such as the one that's in this scene
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or if it was going to be, say,
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regular open doors.
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And if it were like this, I would pass. [laughs]
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Unless I found in one of their manuals
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or knew that they would keep this door open
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between certain times.
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Could I get into that?
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Back then, where things were more manual, oh, yeah.
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I mean, it would've taken
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a considerable amount of time to break into that.
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That's not, like, a three- or four-minute deal.
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[gunshot]
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[cocks gun]
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You wouldn't have a weapon in there like that,
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unless you have a security guard that was armed.
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You gotta keep in mind, if you shoot that shotgun
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and he hits that bank-robbery suspect,
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those rounds are probably exiting the perpetrator
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and going straight into the bank customer
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or the bank employee.
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Robber: What bus driver?
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[windows shatter]
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That school bus doesn't have any damage on it,
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and it just crashed through
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a cement and stone building.
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And, if you remember,
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it had to go up the steps,
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because when they robbed the building
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they went up the steps, and that --
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like, totally Hollywood, right?
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Definitely a 1. [chuckles]
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The camera's already got them on video,
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so why even use a mask at that point?
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Either they should've gotten out of the car,
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gone straight in with the mask on,
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or not used anything.
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Robber: Stay down! We want to hurt no one.
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The energy is so on point.
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How they talk, how they walk, how they move.
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Even the customers, just the fear that's there.
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Cellophane money. The money's still wrapped.
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This is how a lot of banks will keep the money
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when it comes in.
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Because they're still coming from,
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you know, basically the factory.
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Robber: Down! Down.
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Detective: Far East National Bank, 11:30!
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The silent alarm is actually going off
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as they're leaving,
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which is what employees are actually trained to do.
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It's less chance of the cops getting there
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and them having a hostage situation.
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The police are being alerted
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as the bank robbers are leaving,
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which is super accurate.
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I would actually give it about a 7.
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The energy is so accurate for the bank robbers,
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for that team. You can feel the desperation
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that it needs to get done.
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Robber: Move, move, move!
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All right, back it away from the counter!
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They know exactly what they're doing.
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You can tell by the way they move, where they go;
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they know the layout of this place.
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Robber: Up against the wall!
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You! Away from the computer!
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Bank robberies that are done
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by a lot of different gangs,
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this is how they go in,
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and this is how they operate.
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Just with brute force and sheer fear.
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Robber: When's the time lock set for?
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9 o'clock.
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Robber: Don't lie to us. It's 8:15.
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He asked her something very specific about the bank
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which he already knew.
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I would ask a bank employee a question
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just because I knew the answer,
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and I wanted to see
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if they were gonna be straight with me or not.
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I wanted to see if they were gonna be nervous,
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how they were gonna respond to the question I was asking.
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He just wanted to see if she was gonna cooperate.
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Robber: Hold it! Silent alarm, this address.
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You pull the alarm?
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No! No!
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A lot of people believe that everyone in a bank,
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you know, all employees have silent alarms.
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That's not accurate.
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There's very specific people
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that have the silent alarms
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that are allowed to push it.
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Robber: Bleaching up!
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Come on, let's go, we don't have time.
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Bleaching is something I haven't seen done before.
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I know why he's doing it,
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to get rid of all type of evidence.
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You know, once you put bleach on anything,
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everything just kind of dissipates.
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It's just interesting to me that they're doing that --
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like, the gloves, they have on so much that covers them up.
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I would say this movie is a 10.
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For the realistic way that these guys
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are just that aggressive.
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Unfortunately, you have a lot of guys who go in,
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and that's how they do it.
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Pills & Coke: He's gonna kill us all.
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Unless...
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you can give me
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a giant f---ing s---wad of cash.
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I have a plan.
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I didn't start robbing banks just
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because I wanted money.
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I started robbing banks out of desperation,
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in order to pay off a debt
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that a very dear relative to me
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had incurred to a criminal organization.
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When people do a solo robbery
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and they're trying not to be seen,
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this is exactly how they would approach it.
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They would hand the teller a note.
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They would probably smile at people in line.
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We can say he makes the mistake of showing his face,
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but most guys that go in solo like that,
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they often do that, and they hit these smaller banks,
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and they just hope that the banks don't really link up
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and they won't get that much attention.
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But they will go in and show their actual faces.
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You know, someone's like, "Why is she moving that slow?"
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She's probably still processing.
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What they are trained to do is try to give you
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money that has some kind of detector in it,
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some kind of tracer or dye pack.
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And we see the stack.
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That stack looks a lot bigger
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and looks like something he should take.
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It could be what they call the "bait money."
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A stack that bank employees have put to the side,
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and with those are the bait money, dye packs, tracers.
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Here we see him being captured on video.
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So, when I did all of my bank robberies,
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it was in the end of '99, going into 2000.
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And you didn't have cameras
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that were as high-quality as they have now.
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So these old cameras used to be really grainy,
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so they would have a lot of them,
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but it's very common to have the cameras coming in.
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There are even things along doors
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that will allow a witness
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to gather even how tall you are,
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and you'll see it in a lot of stores or banks.
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And when someone passes it, the employees are trained
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to look where he lines up on that.
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Absolutely a 10. Absolutely a 10.
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But you see the man with the briefcase?
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Teller: Yes.
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That's my partner. He has a gun in there.
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And if you don't do exactly what I tell you
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or if you give me any kind of a problem at all,
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I'm gonna look over at my partner,
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and he's gonna shoot your Mr. Gwendon between the eyes.
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I have done that.
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I have gone into a bank
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and immediately given instructions.
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I've looked back at the door from which I came in
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and told an imaginary accomplice there
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to make sure everyone keeps their head down --
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not lay down or hands in the air,
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but they keep their head down,
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like, just their eyes focused on the ground --
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and there was never anyone there.
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Take one of those big envelopes and put as many
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100s, 50s, and 20s as you can pack into it.
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He's disarming her fear.
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Literally, you know?
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So it's not bringing any attention to them.
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That method is a very, very common method.
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I would say things like that.
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Even if I yell louder at everyone else,
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I would tell the person that I was trying to get
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to do whatever I'm trying to get them to do,
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I would be much more calm with them,
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versus screaming at them.
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The rating I'm gonna give this picture
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is a 10.
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You know, you would think he wouldn't
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just go into a bank like that,
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but people will do things like that,
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especially if it's a smaller bank
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and they think that the news isn't gonna travel.
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Police radio: All available units, we have
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a bank 211 in progress Nick: Shit.
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at the Pico Rivera Savings in --
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[police sirens blaring]
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Stop!
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That is super accurate,
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where they're trying to back down other law enforcement.
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The FBI agent that was assigned to my case,
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Patrick Conley,
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he changed how they went after bank robbers.
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And a lot of times they would just wait for bank robbers
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to get caught in the, you know, after the fact.
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And they'd get caught doing something else,
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and someone tells on someone.
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We've been surveilling these guys for weeks!
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That's what surveillance is!
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They commit a crime, and then we stop them!
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The police aren't working together.
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In my case that happened a lot too,
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because other officers weren't giving
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Special Agent Patrick Conley
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the information he needed, or they just weren't
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used to chasing down actual bank robbers.
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Anytime he heard something come up,
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he was always there.
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Once that silent alarm was hit, he'd also go.
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[police sirens blaring] [tires screeching]
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I have never been in that situation,
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where I have been inside and the cops have shown up,
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but I have been in the situation where,
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as I'm driving away, all the cops are coming into it.
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The moment I saw all the cops,
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I rolled all the windows down
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and turned my music on and started singing.
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I'm gonna give it a 7,
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because today, you know, I think law enforcement
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has learned a lot by not communicating with each other.
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This scene here is very high-tech. [laughs]
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This isn't a normal bank robbery, right?
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There are guys in the military
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and certain groups around the world
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that could absolutely do this.
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Now, a typical bank robbery,
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you're working within a certain construct of time.
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And trying to get in a vault like that,
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even if you have the skill set to get into it,
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it would probably take you
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as long to get in that vault
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as the sentence you would get for getting into it.
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I have gone into banks
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that have safe locks in vaults
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and time-lock vaults and stuff like that.
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But there is a bank in Spain that operates in this way,
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where if certain parts of it are triggered,
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it will flood the actual safe which holds all the gold.
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I'll give it a 10 for entertainment,
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but I'm gonna give it a 1
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on the skill set
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that anyone would have to go do that.
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I've been waiting to go into a bank
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and I've seen a pregnant lady
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or an elderly person go in,
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and it's made me either pause or wait,
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because I didn't want to --
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you know, like I said, a lot of people, when they do this,
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they're not thinking that they're hurting the individual,
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they're just taking the money.
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You're putting a lot of psychological damage
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and trauma on someone.
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Sometimes you don't realize that in the moment.
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Just the one, Sonny!
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Sonny: Right!
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This happened in 1972 in Brooklyn.
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Just a horrible situation
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when you have this hostage situation.
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[emergency sirens wailing] [tires screeching]
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Right now he's in serious, serious denial.
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I haven't been in this situation,
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but I remember, even before I turned myself in,
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making the decision that I wanted to turn myself in.
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There was just so much back-and-forth with myself.
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They got me on kidnapping, armed robbery.
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They're gonna bury me, man!
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[audience cheering]
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Attica! Attica! Attica!
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Basically, he's buying time.
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You're working off survival instinct here now,
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because he knows. He can't go anywhere,
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but now it's just about survival.
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I'm gonna give it a 10.
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And were there mistakes made in the bank? Absolutely.
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Were there things that a normal bank robber
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wouldn't do in the bank? Yes.
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But in this situation,
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all those mistakes played into him getting caught.
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Robber: We have it, let's go!
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A lot of bank robbers,
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especially their first time or something like that,
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out of desperation they will just take
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whatever they can put in,
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and I've heard about bank robbers going inside
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and forgetting to take anything
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to collect the money with, you know?
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Putting everything, trying to put everything
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in a T-shirt, you know?
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Robber: I got this!
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He wasn't prepared for that, which, it gave him pause,
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but then he had to jump back into his --
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into that zone of getting them out of there.
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So I like that they kind of did that,
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where they give him this human quality, like,
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"Whoa! I didn't expect that."
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'Cause he's just the driver.
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Robber: Look out!
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Ah! What the?!
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That's a situation that can definitely happen.
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The guy who's engaging them
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has a Marine Corps hat on
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and a Marine Corps decal on his car.
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And that was something that was always on my mind
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when going into a bank.
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You know, just wondering if there's gonna be
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another guy in there like me.
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He was a Marine, like myself.
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It happened to me, where I had a guy
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who was probably former military or something engage me,
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come at me, tell me to stop.
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And I followed the command.
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I know it sounds weird, but I followed the command,
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because it just wasn't worth
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physically harming someone, for me.
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Just that scene there, that interaction,
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I would give it another 7.
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We saw a lot of violence happening,
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and it's easy from the outside to say,
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"OK, that wouldn't happen," but, heck, that happens.
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I've been into banks where, during the day,
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you'd see working crews there,
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but I would think that this would be something
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where you'd have working crews like that at night.
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But if you had to have them during the day,
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I can see how that guy can be in there.
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Robber: Easy...
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Everybody get down on the f---ing floor, now!
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[patrons screaming]
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I never used a team like that.
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Sometimes people will get a little violent, unfortunately.
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And a lot of guys probably think
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that's the way to instill fear,
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to get people to do what you tell them.
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But I'm kinda against that.
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Once again, we're looking at Hollywood;
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things would be much more secure than that.
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But a lot of old banks did just have the glass doors.
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Later on, in probably, like, the early 2000s,
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what happened is you started to see banks
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incorporate this double-door mechanism.
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What that was actually for is to trap bank robbers
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inside those first doors that they went out of.
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I don't know. If a bunch of serious, trained guys
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were doing something like this,
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this is probably the way they would do it.
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So I will rate it another 7.