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An Independence Bank on East 86th Street was robbed of $2,470 in a day light heist by a twenty something couple. The male robber handed the teller a note saying he had a gun, intimated he had a gun in his clothes, and then got the money; his female accomplice, who wore a cloverleaf t-shirt and black leggings with flip-flops was the lookout. And when they got the money, they just walked away. The NY Post calls them the "Bonnie & Clyde" of the hipster set as they were wearing cargo shorts and flip-flops - while the NY Daily News finds that the male robber looks a lot like Ashton Kutcher (they have a picture, and he sort of does, as much as any young white guy with longish brown hair and some scruff, wearing sunglasses and a hat, can). While this might be an audacious robbery, this is nothing compared to the mom who made her 10 year old son rob a bank.
And that Independence branch is one of those without the floor-to-ceiling teller barriers - it's one of those "friendlier" bank branches that seem to be more popular to rob.
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Oh, if they were real hipsters, they guy would've handed the teller with a note saying, "I have a gub"
preppy does not a hipster make.
They said, "She also wore stylish black stretch pants and rubber flip-flops and was carrying a small white purse, cops said." If they meant leggings, then there's nothing stylish about looking Bedford Ave. circa 2003. If they're normal black stretchies, then - along with the very normal description and pic of "Clyde" - these are normal white NYC kids. Of course, white people robbing banks is probably beyond the Post's reckoning - but that doesn't make them either hipsters, preppies or even interesting.
As for the 10-year-old - mazeltov! Start 'em young I say!
They sound like geeks. Shorts and flip-flops?
Who the hell wears flip-flops to a bank robbery? That's so 1996.
Seriously, though, I can hardly think of worse footwear for such a situation (save maybe for high heels). What if you had to run away from the cops? Sneakers would be a much better choice, I think.
Maybe they meant hippies
"It's not the neighborhood you would expect a bank robbery in."
Most crime is commited in the neighborhoods where the criminals feel comfortable, i.e. down the street from daddy's $5.8M townhouse. "He wouldn't pay my Sidekick bill, that asshole! (Paris Hilton accent)"
The perfect cover- generic white guy. This guy blends.
I'm suprised he wasn't wearing a god awful trucker hat.
Uh... hipsters--if they still exist--don't wear cargo shorts.
LOL at the discrepancy between how 2 white people can rob a bank so easily and how a black lady is so dumb she got her 10 year old kid to do it. Like damn animals!
Post # 11 is racist and off-topic.
#11 is nevertheless funny.