Cool Crime! Robbery, Inner Tube Escape, Craigslist Decoys

Just when you start to get bored with all of the standard criminal fare, when the monotony of the same old criminal misdeads, so thoroughly derivative in their lack of imagination grows stale, someone does something truly outlandish. A crime of great originality and daring that makes the bored crime blogger take note. Today, news out of Seattle reports just such a crime. Now, before we continue, this is NOT an endorsement of crime, but merely appreciation for forethought, planning, and creative use of the available tools. Ingenuity, in other words.

Bank of America, in Monroe Wa. was the scene of the armored car heist at about 11am yesterday. An armed man dressed in a blue shirt and a white face mask approached the armored car personnel and demanded the money. He made away with it to nearby Woods Creek where an inner tube awaited. He floated away, abandoning the inner tube some distance away.

Adding to the confusion in the wake of the crime was that the suspect had arranged for a large group of decoys to be at the bank at exactly the time he was to commit the heist. He apparently placed an add in Craigslist to recruit guys to show up at the bank for a construction project, specifying that they should all wear white masks and blue shirts. Coppers feel he may have had an accomplice waiting for him at the point where he got out of the river, but then again, in my estimation he could have merely parked his own vehicle there and escaped that way. One of the cardinal rules of crime is that the fewer people one involves in a criminal enterprise the better are the odds of getting away with it. Bad crime. Ten points out ten for style, though.