FBI: Bank robber cites economy during holdup - (“I'm only doing this to eat")

[Bozita]

Source: Houston Chronicle

FBI: Bank robber cites economy during holdup
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
July 14, 2009, 1:35AM


A pistol-wielding robber blamed the nation's troubled economy for a holdup this morning at a northwest Houston bank, authorities said.

While demanding cash about 10:30 a.m. from a teller at a Compass bank branch, 12514 Tomball Parkway, the armed robber said, “I'm only doing this to eat. They're not letting me work,“ FBI officials said.

As his partner held a shotgun on customers and employees at the bank, the robber scooped the cash into a black nylon bag, officials said.

They were last seen getting into a tan, gray or silver four-door Chevrolet sedan with custom rims, FBI agents said.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6527759.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. last seen getting into a tan, gray or silver four-door Chevrolet sedan...

"One Piece At A Time"

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.


I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.


I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

[AzDar]

2. OT, but.... Johnny Cash is GOD.

[Lorien]

3. Senior citizens have been robbing banks down here to pay for their

medications. Just another hazard of living in a country that has no safety nets for the middle and lower classes!

[Rebubula]

7. Citation, please

I am not saying you are wrong, just that I have not heard of that being an epidemic.

[Blue For You]

4. Bullsh*t. Just some sorry ass who wants to take what isn't his.

I could hear Bernie Madoff using the same line.

[Rebubula]

6. Seriously...

...that is just using a current events reason for criminal behavior.

Criminals have been using this excuse for centuries.

The economy sucks, but endangering the lives of other people in order to get money is NOT the right way.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Except that the US is full of impoversihed people, and much fewer multi-billionnaires.

Wake up, Christmas.

[izquierdista]

5. Custom rims?

I believe Chris Rock had a comment about rims: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmrjX6NL0u8

[Spinzonner]

9. Couldn't he just rob a food pantry ?

Heck, they'd probably just give it to him.

[Codeine]

10. Sell your rims, asshole.

Isn't that better than shoving a gun in some terrified employee's face?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. ...or the shotguns.

:think:

[Blue_Tires]

11. personally, I blame Johnny Depp

:silly:

[CubicleGuy]

12. I say we treat the bank robber just like we're supposed to...

... be ignoring Dick Cheney's super-secret CIA directives:

We're just supposed to ignore it, and tell ourselves that there's no point in looking backwards, when there's so many things of much bigger importance that need to be done.

Who cares what he did, it was all with the best of intentions: the guy was simply hungry. I'm sure he went and fed himself afterwards, and so he didn't die of starvation. That's a good thing, right?

Why dwell on the past? It's over and done.

Yeah, right.

[pinniped]

13. I'm sure his buddy also blamed the troubled economy.

I call BS. These assholes went in there armed and dangerous.

You can rob a bank without a weapon.

[Synicus Maximus]

14. Once they get him he will get 3 meals a day and a nice cell to live in.