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Bank robber hires decoys on Craigslist, fools cops

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In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities. It gets better: He then escaped in a creek headed for the Skykomish River in an inner tube, and the cops are still looking for him. "A great amount of money" was taken, Monroe police said, but did not provide a dollar value. It appears to have unfolded this way, according to a Seattle-based NBC affiliate: around 11:00 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, the robber, wearing a yellow vest, safety goggles, a blue shirt, and a respirator mask went over to a guard who was overseeing the unloading of cash to the bank from the truck. He sprayed the guard with pepper spray, grabbed his bag of money, and fled the scene. But here's the hilarious twist. The robber had previously put out a Craigslist ad for road maintenance workers, promising wages of $28.50 per hour. Recruits were asked to wait near the Bank of America right around the time of the robbery--wearing yellow vests, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and preferably a blue shirt. At least a dozen of them showed up after responding to the Craigslist ad. "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," one of the unwitting decoys, named Mike, said to the NBC station. As it turns out, they were simply placed there to confuse cops who were looking for a guy wearing a virtually identical outfit. Authorities eventually found the getaway inner tube (a getaway inner tube!) and suspect that accomplices may have picked up the robber in a boat. According to the NBC affiliate, police hope to track him down by figuring out who posted the Craigslist ad in the first place. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark was not immediately available for comment.

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Bad ass. That's as good as HEAT!

A guy this creative deserves the money.

Pretty slick.

If only he could use his powers for good.

awesome

Read this yesterday. Insane.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Pretty slick. If only he could use his powers for good.

He is. I have it on good authority that he's using the funds to open an orphanage and to bail out the US economy.

I tried to track down the ad but apparently it's been taken down

Kinda reminds me of this movie



except the inner tube being the wall

OH NOES! SHUT DOWN craigslist!!

He deserves the money with a scheme like that!

Stupid bastard will probably get caught when is I.P is traced though.

Awesome!

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Originally posted by Domesticated He deserves the money with a scheme like that! Stupid bastard will probably get caught when is I.P is traced though.

If he was smart and used ctunnel, created a temporary email account while he posted dealt with this, and used a cybercafe, then no he won't.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel If he was smart and used ctunnel, created a temporary email account while he posted dealt with this, and used a cybercafe, then no he won't.

was it you?

It's really easy to arrange something like that over craiglist without getting caught. Props to him for having the cojones to do it and carry it through.

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Originally posted by guerra-monstru was it you?

lol no

i wonder if this would work in casual encounters.

that's mint.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel If he was smart and used ctunnel, created a temporary email account while he posted dealt with this, and used a cybercafe, then no he won't.

Which more than likely he did.

lol...getaway inner-tube.

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Originally posted by noikeee A guy this creative deserves the money.

agreed

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