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BUNGLED BURGARIES cont’d • Raymond Burles walked into a bank in France, demanded the cash, and stacked it neatly in a zippered case. When he laid his gun on top of the money and zipped the case closed, security officers nabbed him. • The cashier gave a bank robber in Oakland a bag full of marked bills secretly rigged with an explosive device that would detonate as soon as it passed through the bank’s door. The robber soon regretted stuffing the bag down the front of his trousers. • A bank robber in Oregon handed a note to the teller saying, “This is a holdup and I’ve got a gun. Put the money in a paper bag.” The cashier wrote back, “I haven’t got a paper bag.” The robber fled. • Bruce Damon held up the Mutual Federal Savings Bank in Brockton, Massachusetts. He stunned tellers when he demanded that instead of cash, he wanted them to write out a check. He was arrested when he tried to deposit the check into his account at another bank. • A bank robber in Los Angeles made off with over $5,000 but dropped his wallet containing all of his ID as he left the bank. Shortly afterwards, he appeared at the police station. He was hoping if he returned all the money the police would return his wallet and forget about the whole thing. They accepted the return of the money but refused to forget about the whole thing. • A bank robber in Brooklyn stuffed nearly half a million dollars in bills into two Hefty bags. The bags were too heavy to carry so he dragged them towards the door. When one of the bags split open and spilled all the money on the floor, he stopped to collect it. That’s when security officers grabbed him. • A bank robber in Tel Aviv in 1995 was foiled by a hard-of-hearing cashier, who could not hear him whispering, “This is a hold-up.” He fled in embarrassment. UNUSUAL HOLD-UPS • In Charleston, South Carolina, a man handed a stick-up note to an ATM machine in front of a bank. When the machine didn’t come across with any cash, he shot it twice and drove off. He was later arrested. • A man decided to rob a bank’s outdoor night deposit box in West Virginia in 1980. He wrapped a chain around it and attached the other end to his bumper. When he took off, he expected the front door of the box to rip off. Instead, the night deposit box was left intact— and his rear bumper came off. He drove away, leaving the bumper behind him. Police arriving on the scene noted the license plate still attached to the bumper and arrested him in short order.
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Unusual Hold-ups (Continued): • An armored car robbery in Arlington, Texas in 1991 occurred right next to a busload of Japanese tourists, who were all armed with cameras. Dozens of clear photos of the robber’s face and license plate were readily available to help police in the short, quick search for the culprit. • In 1990 James Richardson and Jeffrey Defalco tried to steal a safe weighing three tons. It wouldn’t fit in their car so they tied a chain around it and dragged it behind GET-AWAY GOOFS • A bank robber in Riverhead, New York in 1979 was dismayed when he returned to his car with the cash to find the car would not start. Police found him hiding in a nearby tree. • Paul Benier robbed the Lafayette Cooperative Bank in Swansea, Massachusetts. When he rushed to the get-away car, he discovered he had locked the keys in the car. GET-AWAY GOOFS •Two 17-year-old boys robbed the Seafirst Bank in suburban Seattle. The battery in their get-away car went dead at the crucial moment. When they got out to check under the hood, the doors shut and automatically locked behind them. The key was in the ignition, the money was locked in the car, the battery was dead and they didn’t have a spare key— so they took off running. They ran smack into the police car that showed up just then. • In 1931 a couple of would-be bank robbers in Shelby, Kentucky, stole a truck to use as their get-away vehicle. They parked it right outside the bank while they went in to do the robbing. While they were busy with the hold-up, the rightful owner of the stolen truck happened by. Seeing his truck in front of the bank, he hopped in and drove away. The two robbers, laden with bags of money, rushed outside to find their getaway vehicle gone. • In Waltham, Massachusetts, a bank robber got some $3,000 from the tellers, then phoned for a taxi. Police arrested him as he waited for his ride in the bank lobby. • Richard Stowell robbed the Chase Lincoln First Bank in Syracuse, New York. He tried to make his quick get-away on a city bus. He failed. It was the second time he’d been apprehended on a bus after robbing a bank. • Bank robber Anthony Colella got away with $2,100 in a holdup in Brooklyn. However, as he was making his get-away, he was mugged by an attacker who jumped out of a station wagon. The mugger relieved him of his entire haul. This upset the bank robber so much that he called the police and reported the crimes— both of them. The cops promptly arrested him. • A bank in Nice, France was robbed of about $10 million in valuables and currency. Many rich depositors didn’t even apply to be reimbursed for their losses because it would have meant revealing how much they had stashed away without reporting it for taxes.
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Noteworthy Inventions CHARLES DARROW • Charles Darrow is remembered as the inventor of the game Monopoly, though that’s not quite the truth. In fact, Charles Darrow took a game that already existed, modified it, patented it, and marketed it. Because of his efforts, it eventually became the #1 selling game of all time. • Charles Darrow was a salesman in Philadelphia who sold heaters. After the stock market crash of 1929, he lost his job and supported himself with a number of odd jobs. • At the time, there were a number of board games making the rounds. One was called The Landlord’s Game, and another one was called The Fascinating Game of Finance. • Charles’ wife Esther was friends with a man named Charles Todd, who was a big fan of a similar sort of game, which used the streets of Atlantic City (where he vacationed) as the property titles. Todd taught the game to Esther, and Esther taught the game to her husband. • Charles Darrow thought there might be a way to make money off the game, so he and his wife and his son William set up a cottage industry manufacturing and selling the game. Charles carved tiny houses and hotels out of scrap wood, Esther hand-painted the property titles and the Chance and Community Chest cards, and William made the game boards out of circular pieces of oilcloth. Charles originally used charms from Esther’s charm bracelet as the game pieces. They called their version of the game Monopoly. • In 1933, Charles copyrighted the game in spite of the fact that he was not technically the inventor. Still, he sold plenty of copies to Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philadelphia, at $2.50 each. • Charles approached both Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers to see if they would buy the rights to the game, but was turned down. Parker Brothers thought it was too long and complex. But when Darrow started selling over 5,000 copies a year, Parker Brothers bought the rights to the game. • Within a year, 20,000 sets of the game were being produced every week. Monopoly ended up being the best-selling board game in America that year, and it made Darrow the first millionaire game designer in history. • When Parker Brothers was subsequently sued by people who had come up with similar games, the company bought out the rights to all of them and re-negotiated the royalty agreement they had with Charles Darrow. • After World War II, sales went from 800,000 a year to over one million. • Charles Darrow died in 1967 at the age of 78. In 1970, Atlantic City placed a commemorative plaque in his honor on the Boardwalk, near the corner of Park Place. • Rumor has it that during World War II, special Monopoly sets were delivered to POW camps in Germany which secretly contained files, a compass, a map, and real money. Some people claim this story is false. • The first Monopoly edition in Braille was published in 1973. • The Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works considered name changes for Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues (because they are the lowest priced properties in the game) but fans of the game, along with the president of Parker Brothers, successfully lobbied for the city to keep the names. • The longest Monopoly game ever played lasted for 70 days. More Monopoly money is printed every year than the U.S. Mint prints real money.
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MONEY • The word cash comes from the Chinese word ‘kase’ meaning small coin. ‘Money’ comes from the Roman goddess Juno Moneta, who stood guard over the temple where coins were minted. A dollar is called a buck because before money was minted, a buck skin was a common form of currency. • The word ‘check’ came from the game of chess. Putting the king in check means his choices are limited, just like a modern day check limits opportunities for forgery and alteration. • The dollar sign $ originated with the Spanish abbreviation meaning ‘peso’ being a combination of the letters PS. • Coins could once be cut into pieces to make change. Two bits was a quarter of a Spanish dollar, which could be divided into eight pieces. That’s how pirates got pieces of eight and England got the halfpenny and the farthing which was originally a ‘fourthings’ or a fourth of a penny. • It costs 2.4 cents to manufacture a penny, and 6.2 cents to manufacture a bill. • The first coin that bore the name United States of America was minted in 1787. It was worth a cent and bore the slogan, “Mind Your Business.” • When the first U.S. mint opened, individual citizens could take their gold and silver there to have it made into coins, free of charge. • The most valuable U.S. coin is the $3 gold piece minted in 1870. There is only one known to exist. • All coins currently minted have a portrait of a president on them. By law no living person is allowed to be portrayed on money of the U.S. • If you count 150 one dollar bills per minute and count 16 hours a day it would take you 20 years to count out a billion dollars.
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