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Bank Notes
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A collection of actual demand notes used in unarmed bank robberies. Each demand note is appended with related data about robbery (e.g. gender, time of day, bank name and amount of take) in addition to security footage of robbery. Also features appendix of Bank Crime Statistics.

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some of the most heartfelt prose ever written...
Review date: 2009-12-11 Rating: 10 out of 10

There is something hypnotic about this book.

In contemporary bank robbery, the most popular m.o. is for the thief to approach the teller with a piece of paper that conveys they fact of the robbery. Tellers, in turn, give the robber money without questioning as a matter of bank protocol.

Before getting this book, I had heard about this practice, but never really thought about what those notes might say. I suppose I just assumed that they were all the same, because they were all used in the same way for the same reason. This is not the case. The creation of a bank robbery note is a peak experience in a person's life and the act of reading such a note is like looking into a window at the author's soul.

20S 50S 100S
NO DYE PACKS
I HAVE A BOMB
HELP ME

People do not get mugged on the street by weaponless thugs armed with notes; how does this happen? The answer is the strange modern practice of corporations attempting to industrialize the human fear response. Banks train tellers to react in a certain way when they get notes of a certain degree of strangeness, so even when the notes do not clearly enunciate the fact of the robbery or what should happen, the tellers act robotically and give money.

This book gives the reader all the raw data one would need to meditate on this brief and intense human communication without tainting the information with any commentary. Each page contains a transcription of the note, a photo of the robber taken adapted from security camera footage, a dollar amount of the money taken, the location of the the bank, and whether the robber was caught by police. This book is perfect as a gift, for coffee tables, or just tear the pages out one by one and present them on a spree across America.

Product Details/Specifications

Authors:
Ken Habarta

Recording label: lulu.com
Manufacturer: lulu.com
EAN: 9780557095926
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0557095921
Number of pages: 176
Publication date: 2009-09-01
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)

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