Been a long time a comin'
I've been super busy and unable to blog recently. But, check it out: bank robbery in Dumbo yesterday!
From the forthcoming Dumbo Paneling:
Taco Day and Bank Robbery Thursday in Dumbo
by Leo Kuelbs
Yesterday, while making my way through and over the sunny, cobbled streets of our quaint, fakey village, to my Spanish-owned, local bank, I was blocked by yellow tape. “POLICE LINE, DO NOT CROSS,” was its improbable message. Noting others beyond said tape-protected area, I tried to go under it and up the steps towards the friendly cash machines. “Bank’s closed,” the lady cop standing in front of doors told me.
“It is? Is everything okay?”
“Uh huh,” she answered. But a look inside through the glass revealed more tape around the teller area and several cops asking questions of the staffers inside. Clearly, my friendly bank had been robbed.
I asked one famous local panhandler (aren’t panhandlers doing pretty good these days in spite of the recent recession/depression? At least they have job security…) and he told me one guy had robbed the bank and just ran off. No word about guns or anything. Police were everywhere.
And today, the bank is open again and the same panhandler told me, upon fifty-cent donation, that they had caught the guy who, possibly, had come back to try again. They, at least, according to the talkative panhandler, arrested somebody. My street source told me the suspect was from the area and that he had really big balls. I thought the guy sounded stupid. You don’t rob the same place twice in two days, right?
A quick overview of blogs reveals some other interesting facts, such as robberies at other Sovereign banks in the area, and the possibility of a couple of accomplices. No news about any arrests, but I am sure they will be forthcoming.
So, yet another reminder that we live in a neighborhood where neighbors are noisy, garbage trucks are loud, developers are always key players, you might get robbed, and we still don’t have an actual grocery store. I miss the vigilante butcher who attacked the would-be purse-snatcher who had bitten his female victim. Oh well, at least the cops show up fast.
From the forthcoming Dumbo Paneling:
Taco Day and Bank Robbery Thursday in Dumbo
by Leo Kuelbs
Yesterday, while making my way through and over the sunny, cobbled streets of our quaint, fakey village, to my Spanish-owned, local bank, I was blocked by yellow tape. “POLICE LINE, DO NOT CROSS,” was its improbable message. Noting others beyond said tape-protected area, I tried to go under it and up the steps towards the friendly cash machines. “Bank’s closed,” the lady cop standing in front of doors told me.
“It is? Is everything okay?”
“Uh huh,” she answered. But a look inside through the glass revealed more tape around the teller area and several cops asking questions of the staffers inside. Clearly, my friendly bank had been robbed.
I asked one famous local panhandler (aren’t panhandlers doing pretty good these days in spite of the recent recession/depression? At least they have job security…) and he told me one guy had robbed the bank and just ran off. No word about guns or anything. Police were everywhere.
And today, the bank is open again and the same panhandler told me, upon fifty-cent donation, that they had caught the guy who, possibly, had come back to try again. They, at least, according to the talkative panhandler, arrested somebody. My street source told me the suspect was from the area and that he had really big balls. I thought the guy sounded stupid. You don’t rob the same place twice in two days, right?
A quick overview of blogs reveals some other interesting facts, such as robberies at other Sovereign banks in the area, and the possibility of a couple of accomplices. No news about any arrests, but I am sure they will be forthcoming.
So, yet another reminder that we live in a neighborhood where neighbors are noisy, garbage trucks are loud, developers are always key players, you might get robbed, and we still don’t have an actual grocery store. I miss the vigilante butcher who attacked the would-be purse-snatcher who had bitten his female victim. Oh well, at least the cops show up fast.
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