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A man who apparently robbed a Capital One bank before fleeing the cops fell to his death from an elevated subway platform. MyFoxNY reports, "Around 1:35 p.m., the thief entered a Capital One Bank branch on 113th Street and Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, and demanded cash. A bank clerk gave the robber some cash with a dye pack." He ran to the A train station, where the Post says the dye pack exploded,which "spooked" the thief. After tossing the cash into the trash, he ran on the tracks, but cops were headed his way at 113th Street: "The bold thief, who sources said was wanted in other heists, then chose flight over fight, trying to make the 20-foot leap onto the roof of a building below. But he missed and fell to the street."

Perhaps you've noticed Bank of America's ad campaign that gives customers $10 back for every $100 they use on public transit. But NBC New York notes that the ads are a bit subversive in touting BoA's program, since the print ads, feature people and copy like "Ten bucks for every hundred I spend on transit? Great. How about finding a cabbie who doesn't mind going to Brooklyn?" or "Ten bucks for every hundred I spend on transit? Great. How about a solution for gridlock?" Maybe advertising to NYers is difficult: Earlier this year, Capital One's ad campaign launched its NY/NJ market campaign with the questionable use of huge push pins "hurtling from the skies and crashing into the NYC streets and taxis to demonstrate nearby locations of the bank's ATMs."