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• 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 Art: When inabusiness, reaching is always Oakland bag full of higher marked bills good. secretly rigged with an explosive device Bart: Unless a tellerasduring stick-up! that wouldyou’re detonate soonaas 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 1. This famous bank robber became in a folkBrockton, hero Massachusetts. He stunned tellers for his custom of destroying mortgage paperswhen he whenever demanded that instead of cash, he he robbed a bank. Name him. wanted them to write out a check. 2. How big is the key that opens the vaults at the He was arrested when he tried to deposit the Bank of England? 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. Emerson Wilsoninwas a preacher for 20 nearly • A bank robber Brooklyn stuffed before hedollars bought ainbook called half years a million bills into two “How to Be a Detective.” In this Hefty bags. The bags were toobook heavy to carryhe so he everything dragged he them towards the learned needed to door.know When one of the bags split open about how to be a criminal. and He spilled allclergy the money on the quit the and became a floor, he stopped to collect it. That’s when security safecracker. He learned details about officers grabbed him. the trade by working in a safe factory • A bank in Tel in 1995 for arobber while, and casedAviv his bank jobs was foiled by a hard-of-hearing cashier, who by posing as a burglar-proof safe could not hear him whispering, “This is a salesman. collected $15 million hold-up.” He He fled in embarrassment. from 65 safes and vaults(cont’d before he next page)

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• If an asterisk appears in front of the serial number on a bill, it means it’s a replacement for the original, which was defective. • There’s about 1.2 trillion dollars in coin and bills in circulation in the U.S. • If you have $10 in your pocket and no debts, you are wealthier than 25% of Americans. • If all the money in the world were distributed equally among all the people in the world, every person would have about $11,000. • Research has shown that people are happier if they spend their money on experiences rather than possessions. • Bob Marley’s last words were, “Money can’t buy life.” Thought for the Day: “’A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.’ That is why so many persons don’t fool with it.” -- Dan Kidney

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