Police: Man ran off with suspect's loot

[The Straight Story]

Police: Man ran off with suspect's loot


NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Police in New York said a bank robber dropped his bag of dye-stained cash while running from police and it was taken by an unidentified man.

Investigators said the robber, whose name was not released, claimed to be armed when he robbed a TD Bank branch at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, the New York Post reported Monday.

A dye pack inserted with the money exploded while the man was running from a uniformed police officer who was just outside of the bank when the suspect emerged, detectives said.

Police said they caught up to the suspect and arrested him. However, witnesses said a second man grabbed the dropped bag of dye-stained cash and ran off before police could return for the loot.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/04/Police-Man-ran-off-with-suspects-loot/UPI-88061262638258/

[proteus_lives]

1. Gotta admit, it would be tempting.

If someone ran past me and dropped a bag of cash.

I would tempted. Would I do it? Nah, I've watched too many episodes of the Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt to think that something like that would end well.

[damntexdem]

2. How unethical! Stealing from that unfortunate bank robber!

;-)

[dembotoz]

3. somebody somewhere has a bathtub with the cash in it with a bottle of Tide

hope upon hope
that


tide will get the stain out.

[Nikki Stone1]

4. I don't think Tide is strong enough by itself for that kind of ink

Maybe he's using OXYCLEAN! Billy Mays recommends it from the grave!!

[Xithras]

5. No, but someone undoubtably has a lot of new usable money.

Those dye packs usually can't get all of the money in the bag. If the person picking it up had any brains, they would set the bag somewhere warm so the ink can dry and stop spreading. After that, it's simply a matter of sorting out the unstained bills.

Would I be tempted? Yeah.

[catnhatnh]

6. A BIG Thank You to both the robber AND the looter...

TD Bank is my bank and just maybe now they'll figure out how those of us they fucked with fees felt.