Carded at the heist?
By now, many of you have seen the video of the two teenage girls robbing a bank in Georgia. I was watching "Good Morning America'' this morning when it ran the story. And yeah, it's shocking, another sign of the hell-in-a-handbasket times in which we live. But the striking thing was the comment from an outraged citizen at the nail salon next door to the bank:
"You two girls are too young to do what you did,'' she said, raising the very real question of how old you have to be to rob a bank. I wasn't aware that ID was needed. In fact, presenting ID would thwart the whole enterprise, don't you think?
"You need to take that money back,'' the citizen continued, as if the girls were 5 and it was a candy bar from the corner store they took. You bring it back and it's "No harm, no foul.'' There's an element of American jurisprudence I was not aware of.
Here's the "Good Morning America" link to the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2914582
"You two girls are too young to do what you did,'' she said, raising the very real question of how old you have to be to rob a bank. I wasn't aware that ID was needed. In fact, presenting ID would thwart the whole enterprise, don't you think?
"You need to take that money back,'' the citizen continued, as if the girls were 5 and it was a candy bar from the corner store they took. You bring it back and it's "No harm, no foul.'' There's an element of American jurisprudence I was not aware of.
Here's the "Good Morning America" link to the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2914582
posted by Michael Riley at 9:44 AM
2 Comments:
I checked out the link you provided. I particularly liked the part where they discuss another young, female, bank robber, the aptly named "Cell Phone Bandit."
At the considerable risk of sounding a tad sexist, I thought it rather telling that this female bank robber was unable to put down her cell phone long enough to rob the bank. (She kept chatting away on the cell phone while the teller handed over the cash.) If we can't get young ladies to stop talking on the cell phone long enough to commit a felony, how are we ever going to get them to stop talking on the cell phone while driving?
maybe they thought it was an audition for Paris Hilton/Nicole Richie show "The Simple Life"...probably their idols..
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