Morning Bank Visit Turns Into Tweeting A Robbery

Am I the only person under 30 who doesn't tweet?

This whole thing is completely obnoxious.

There's two of us.

I don't want to see her stream-nope sorry...

All day? I made one comment to a site I enjoy. This person obviously needs to put down the smart phone and live in the real world. Ugh

Hilarious that people who spend their whole day posting inane comments on Gothamist feel that they're in a position for criticizing someone else for using Twitter.

if you can't tell the difference between discussing the in's and out's of news stories, and making your personal life a news story, well that pretty much explains it all.

@mylefttesticle: my apartment is on fire but i wanted to tell you you're right. its spreading to the ceiling, should i call the fire dept? lolzers

@myrightesticle: i just crashed my car but i wanted to apologize for my lack of reverance to twitter. i will think harder before i dare to mock its importance to mankind. i think i broke my femur. i think ive discovered the meaning to

Wow you guys are mean. Yeah, if you read the stream, you can see that my phone had just gone to shit and I wanted to alert my boyfriend/work that I would be late.

Couldn't access calls or emails- still can't cause of a trackball issue that TMobile has refused to help with.

Also- it was not during the robbery. HSBC was great to us and we were safe. BUT we were held for over an hour while they reported the incident and I had nothing to do but sit and stare at the other 3 customers.

Maybe you should fall down a man hole for having anonymous balls.

You know, once upon a time, people would understand if you arrived late and gave a reasonable explanation. That, of course, was before this instant gratification, must tell everyone everything I'm doing at any given moment society.

And you obviously don't understand the reference to your similarity to the girl who fell down a manhole while texting a few days ago. Even worse is your apparent vanity, ego surfing to Gothamist just to see and comment on a story about yourself.

What fucking business is this of yours, jackass?

Wow. That's what I call a cogent and convincing argument.

ahahahaha! It's on both gothamist and gawker... its no one's business, of course!

how dare ye, so76! xD the irony...

Anna - I'm assuming you're using a blackberry. You can make a call from the main screen by simply dialing the number. You can get there by using the "back" button, which is usually located to the right of the trackball. You might want to learn how to use the rest of your phone, and not simply twitter...

Also, you can probably order a trackball on ebay and snap it in yourself...

Wow, a lot of venom...

For those of you who didn't see her Tweet stream (which it seems is most of you), she didn't even know the robbery was taking place until the robber left and the bank locked the doors. Now, as part of standard operating procedure for bank robberies, all the people who were in the bank at the time of the robbery are being held in the bank for questioning, etc. She started Tweeting after the doors were locked and for the hour or so since then because she's freakin' BORED! Wouldn't you be?

MUST HAVE CONSTANT STIMULUS. MUST HAVE CONSTANT STIMULUS. MUST...

OF COURSE she was tweeting, people!

what the fuck else are you supposed to do between facebook pokes and trips to starbuxxx?

GOD!

this woman sucks! you are tweeting during a bank robbery? ugh.

Maybe it was after the robber left.

And I can't remember: In Inside Man, they collected all the cellphones right? But they let the kid have his game boy-type device?

"The downside is that TV shows and Hollywood will have to incorporate Twittering hostages when depicting bank robberies."

Ha!!

trackballs suck

this made me gag at first, but i gave it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbH63Ali9U

its funny cause its true....

I got T-Mobile years ago when I was traveling to Europe frequently for business. Now I don't travel, and it's awful being saddled with such poor service. I can't use my mobile phone in my house (downtown Brooklyn) without walking out into the yard.

Doesn't this story smack of the awful DVR commercial, with that fellow programming a show recording from the floor of a bank during a robbery?

I'm in downtown brooklyn with T Mobile as well and I have to hang my head out my window for people to hear me. It's extra annoying because the poor reception is only one way, I can hear calls fine, callers can't hear me. The awful reception is the only reason I'm hanging onto my landline...

This is one of the worst people I've ever read about.

This woman really needs to fall down an open manhole somewhere.

TMobile is GREAT outside NYC. In Manhattan, I went three months with EVERY SINGLE CALL dropped before I switched to Verizon. It's like TMobile didn't get the memo that tall buildings block cell signals.

That being said, I almost wish the robbers had caught her twittering and made her a hostage. HATE TWITTER.

I work two blocks from that HSBC, and in the time I had T-Mobile, I consistently had zero bars at my desk. Walking to the other end of the office to send a text message got old fast.

Five bars with AT&T. That would have been reason enough to get an iPhone.

TMobile absolutely sucks.

Before them I didn't think it would be possible to drop calls and lose service in Times Square.