Bank on Robbing Commerce

Commerce Banks may have those awesome penny arcade machines for your change, but it seems that they are especially prone to being robbed. Twenty-one Commerce banks have been robbed this year, with one "robber with a bad eye" robbing the Third Avenue and East 64th location four times, in a bankrobbing spree that totals six since the start of the year. The NYPD says that he has a damaged left eye, but even though tellers recognize him, they have "repeatedly failed to hit the alarm." The NYPD thinks it's a training problem. Well, there's always online banking.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 21, 2005 12:40 PM

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relaxed

Things to do:

Check that the FDIC is still around and they can get robbed a billion times and my money is still OK. Relax.

George

Things To Do:

Get Money out of Commerce Bank and close account.

Michael

4 times and no alarm? Sounds like an inside job to me!

adam j. sontag

i've never seen him there, and that's the branch i use most often. the penny arcade there is right as you walk in (about five steps), which probably explains why he hits it so often. the suggestion that they might want to put in bulletproof glass at the branch is apt, considering that the line there is so ridiculously slow at times that it's not only bank robbers who might want to brandish weapons at tellers.

i don't think most commerce banks have the bulletproof glass - my home branch in garden city doesn't either.

--adam