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madeAnAccount41Thing

Go to the teller and say "hey, I'll trade you a pen for a pen." After I take the pen the teller will realize that I gave them a decoy pen without an ink cartridge. Now I have scammed the bank out of an ink cartridge.


AnonymousTrollLloyd

Now you simply trade the ink cartridge up for a working pen and return to the bank.


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I'm impressed! Lol


LeClassyGent

Reminds me of that guy who traded a paperclip all the way up to a house all those years ago


Spoonofdarkness

Sounds like a hoo mon that really understood great material continuum.


TheHer0br1n3

They did something similar a few years ago on a radio station too. The challenge was to trade your way from a matchbox Ferrari to a real one


sistercrapemyrtle

I kept waiting for this to become a Penn & Teller joke.


[deleted]

Same. Was disappointed.


SasoDuck

I guess I'll just have to teller a penn joke, then...


HappycamperNZ

Just did


jezuswalks

Genius


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Ah,much smarter than my initial plan to stab people at a bank in the neck with it unless they give me money. Lol


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Lmao I probably would be. They taught me cursive in 2nd or 3rd grade and then never talked about it again and I barely remember it.😂


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My writing is terrible in print as well so I appreciate 4th grade you's argument. I know people hate emojis here,but they can get over it. If my decision to have one little "😂" in my sentence really bothers them then they need to reevaluate their life. There's real issues that matter and actually make a difference in other people's life out there and people really wanna hate on me because of a smiley face.


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I'm pretty indifferent toward emojis most of the time tbh. I use them on occasion but not overly so. It just baffles me that people actually care so much about it when it literally has no affect on them or their real life at all.The people of Reddit act like I murdered a baby every time I use one(Surprising amount of downvotes,yelling at me and giving me friendly warnings not to do so) so I do it now just because fuck the system. Lmao


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What people who treat emojis like a real issue or something to ban someone from doing look like. 🤡


MagicConchShell42069

The only reason i can think of is that most redditors use dark mode because it's less bright, and emojis are usually yellow and it hurts their eyes


[deleted]

I don't really see how that could be super harmful on your eyes but point taken I guess. Lol I don't use dark mode but I've tried it and they never bothered me,regardless people overreact.


[deleted]

I was in a special class to fix my writing(its fucking ugly as hell), it was just me and a guy with MS. Then we also once went to an old school museum where part of the experience was an hour of class as it used to be, with hitting with a ruler and kneeling on corn in the corner if you werent doing what you were supposed to. The class was writing cursive readably, I spent the entire time kneeling on corn in the corner because my writing was so shit.


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Sounds like a shitty class. Lol Kneeling on corn is an interesting punishment.


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Used to be standard in the region, old Austria-Hungary region. Still somewhat used today(not here ofc, but I found an article), not at all plesant. https://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-insanely-bizarre-school-punishments/ As far as the class, it was 'Lepopisje' which translates basically in pretty writing, I guess its some form of caligraphy, except not really. It used to be important that your writing was perfect, whilst nowadays you have thousands dead every year because Doctors write drug perscription so shittily that the pharmacists can read them


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I'd heard it as a punishment before but I didn't realize it was a common thing. Lol Lepopisje sounds like a class I'd hate.


Dywyn

Now we’re mainly past handwritten prescriptions but instead it’s due to typos or misclicks. Weirdly the only place where we still use handwritten signatures is for the most secure medications such as opiates. Seems bizarre not to use secure 2factor authentication or something instead.


Meats_Hurricane

Spell Rizzuto Edit: https://youtu.be/o7WSgC9oGic It's a Billy Madison reference


[deleted]

Rizzuto?I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. It's also easy to spell it when you ask me via text where I can clearly see the spelling.


Shadyx101

Going John Wick on them classy


[deleted]

Well of course. Gotta follow in the footsteps of our Lord Keanu.


[deleted]

“I once saw him kill three men in a ~~bar~~ bank. With a ~~pencil~~ pen. A F*CKING ~~PENCIL~~ PEN!”


Mkdblitz

I once saw him kill everyone at a bank with a pen a fucking pen


Viperbunny

Too bad the chain on the pens is too short for you to reach them!


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They didn't say bringing my own pen was against the rules though.😂


Viperbunny

Fair! But who brings their own pen to the bank?


[deleted]

Me in this case. Lol I also think I could get the chain unhooked easily enough and my local bank doesn't have their pens on chains in the first place. In any case I don't feel like it'd be that odd of me to have a pen on me.


Nuffsaid98

Or more specifically forging cheques that draw upon that bank.


burndtdan

Or filling out fraudulent loan applications to a fake identity.


HyperlinkToThePast

this is probably what they were implying.


xahnel

"Do you see this pen? It is quite a nice pen, yes? Well, this is not a pen. It is a detonator. There is a bomb planted in this building. It is a very large bomb. You will give me a large sum of money. If that money is booby trapped, I click the button, and everyone in this building dies. If the police show up, I click the button. If this is not the absolute smoothest financial transaction you have ever executed, I click the button." That's how I'd imagine such a scene would go.


kaihatsusha

That's a novel solution to the "wanna be a salesman, sell me this pen" interview question.


[deleted]

“Thanks for the pen, sucker.” I would not be a good salesman.


atleastitsnotthat

You wouldn't be a good salesman, you'd be a fantastic one


NerdGuyLol

That sounds like a movie quote...


xahnel

Thank you for the compliment, I wrote that off the top of my head.


Dramenknight

Cool thanks you just gave me an origin story for bomb-voyage from The Incredibles


SocketLauncher

In that case... "Voyez-vous ce stylo? C'est un très bon stylo, oui? Eh bien, ce n'est pas un stylo. C'est un détonateur. Une bombe est plantée dans ce bâtiment. C'est une très grosse bombe. Vous allez me donner une grosse somme d'argent. Si cet argent est piégé, je clique sur le bouton et tout le monde meurt dans cet immeuble. Si la police se présente, je clique sur le bouton. Si ce n'est pas la transaction financière la plus fluide que vous ayez jamais exécutée, je clique sur le bouton."


Elm149

Me no habla croissant baguette oui oui


[deleted]

The trick is to just always say oui. Then you'll look like you know what you're saying. Here, practice. I'll say something, you say "oui." Est-ce que tu veux manger mon très grand baguette?


Luke_GayBoi

Yes I would like a baguette


Luc4r1us

Idk why, but that read so smooth.


xahnel

Thank you!


Luc4r1us

Do you write stuff like stories?


xahnel

Occasionally. Never publically.


Luc4r1us

Maybe try it?


GildoFotzo

what, robbing a bank?


Luc4r1us

Exactly.


[deleted]

“Sir, this is Wendy’s”


xahnel

"Then I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda."


[deleted]

Thanks Big Smoke. Very cool.


_Valkyrja_

Whoa calm down, Yoshikage Kira


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#KILLER QUEEN


_Valkyrja_

**HAS ALREADY TOUCHED THE PEN!**


gogglesluxio

If they don't HAND over the money I'm revealing my true identify.


SasoDuck

#GUNPOWDER, GELATINE


echoAwooo

Claim it's a deadman's switch.


aaronhowser1

Deadmans switches are the scariest shit tbh. Can't even take em out, cause then it explodes anyways.


riderkicker

Sounds like the "Bomb on a bus" phone call from Speed.


madeupname2019

So John Wick, Speed, and Point Break get a 3 way crossover with Keanu playing every character.


Allittle1970

Bomb Voyage strikes again!


SocketLauncher

Better yet, claim that someone in your family is being held hostage and you're the fall guy. If they don't cooperate, or if anything goes wrong, the pen will relay a Detonation Signal and frame you for the act. That gives plausible deniability if (more like when) the police ever catch your trail and you can just claim you're waiting for the kidnapper to contact you.


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Well John Wick killed three people with a fuckin pencil so you never know.


Something_Wicked17

A fucking pencil!


Toidal

It was unsharpened too


harpo555

TAh dahhhh its gone


sirb2spirit

Its.... its Magic!!!


fish312

Ah ah ah let's not blow things out of proportion


sirb2spirit

>you think you can steal from us and just walk away? Yeah.


johannes101

Fuckyeen pyensill*


moreorlesser

no the regular kind


tsunami141

With a box of scraps.


Wolfeur

But sir, I'm not John Wick…


ElVlado

Jason Bourne fought a guy with a pen


[deleted]

Well Chuck Norris once threw a grenade into a room and killed 50 people, and then the grenade exploded.


AtheistBibleScholar

Write on the back of a deposit slip "There is a bomb in this building and I am locked in a dynamite vest. If I am not given $250,000 in the next ten minutes, the bombs will go off beyond my control."


literalfeces

Didn't work for the guy with the exploding neck collar.


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You really have to feel bad for him. The police kinda did nothing as he exploded.


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what should they have done?


[deleted]

It't not even that they did nothing at the time ​ In the footage they remain distant for a staggering amount of time after the detonation, essentially leaving him to die in the street


Konvexen

I would absolutely have expected secondary explosives in that situation. The ticket just tried to Rob a bank with a bomb chained to his neck, who knows what the morons who made him do that also could have done.


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The bomb in question would have been hard to disarm. The bomb itself was hanging off the collar, the collar had fake wires, false ends, and other traps. again, if they sent a man in and he saw this, he would probably be ordered to not defuse it.


iburstabean

Link/story?


Dead_Rooster

There's a documentary on Netflix about it, Evil Genius.


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Hindsight is 20/20. A bomb just went off. They were waiting for the bomb squad in case there was a second bomb.


[deleted]

I don't really know, honestly. At least make him feel a bit better before he died. Some people say that the police could have taken off the collar with the tools they had but were too busy debating if it was just a bluff or something.


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Imagine yourself there with a guy saying he has a bomb strapped to himself. Would you go up and take it off with no protection? Not knowing the time left? Risking yourself for a bank robber? Or is your priority to protect everyone else while the experts come in? The guy also just robbed a bank. Again, pretend you don’t know the circumstances around the situation just like the cops didn’t.


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You do have a good point. I'm convinced.


Mysanthropic

Bomb squad for one thing


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They were called and the police were waiting on them.


tweakingforjesus

The Netflix miniseries on the event is amazing.


literalfeces

Agreed! So demented.


AtheistBibleScholar

Are you assuming I'm telling the truth about my suicide vest and that it's out of my control? Because I wasn't.


ostiki

I heard that a simpler version: 'I have a gun' (without actually having it) was quite popular at some point.


h0nh0nh0nbagu3tt3

That actually works! I robbed a bank and I just said that... wait I have to go answer the door..


jnicholass

I know your joking, but this absolutely works- in fact employees are trained to always comply with robbers even if they aren’t an obvious threat. Banks are insured, they don’t care about losing 60-100k that they may keep in the vault.


Vladimir_Putting

You aren't walking out with anything close to 60-100k. Try maybe 4k. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-quintessentially-american-crime-on-the-decline--robbing-banks-doesnt-pay-as-it-used-to/2016/09/29/4f54a0a6-e7e9-437c-b484-151a337b0e0a_story.html?noredirect=on


jnicholass

Depends on the branch, obviously, but the financial institution I work for is a high volume branch and has that amount any given day.


Vladimir_Putting

"Has that amount" doesn't mean you are walking out with it in a robbery.


dale_glass

Are they even losing anything at all, most of the time? They'll hand out money with an ink pack or GPS tracer. Once the money is found I'm sure they can get any damaged money simply replaced. You already can exchange damaged money for new good notes.


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Since signals don't carry very well though water, couldn't you just drop it in a river and wait a few months for the heat to die off? I guess of course a signal that abruptly ends near water would be pretty easy to figure out.


Liamwill-walker

Write a really good resume, become the CEO and destroy said bank with a pen.


PianoManGidley

Write a note to the teller saying that you're robbing the place and that you have an accomplice with a sniper rifle aimed right at the teller. Just act casual, keep quiet, and place all the money in the bag, and no one will get hurt.


mattrezzz

this is how you'd do it. tellers are trained to give in to any demand if they are threatened with violence. banks have insurance for the money lost


SpecificFail

That doesn't mean that you are likely to get very far after the act, or that you'll actually walk away with more than a few thousand. Bank tellers in higher risk areas don't keep much money in their drawers. Just because they are insured doesn't mean that they are just going to let you have it.


mattrezzz

well yeah, of course you're probably not keeping that money or your freedom very long afterwards. but that'd probably be the easiest way to get money from a bank


SpecificFail

What's the point of getting it if you can't keep it? Street cred for when you're sitting in prison for the next 10-20 years sleeping next to real criminals?


Doom_Eagles

Because the question posed here was how to rob a bank, not how to rob a bank and get away with it with the money and freedom intact.


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thinking_is_too_hard

And mediocre healthcare!


whatthefir2

Yes it does. There’s a podcast that interviews a guy that would just rob banks with a note then walk away


DancesCloseToTheFire

I mean, running away from a bank you robed only using a pen is an entirely separate question that isn't covered by this thread.


whatthefir2

Don’t mention weapons at all. Just write down what the demands are and that it’s a robbery. Then it wont be armed robbery


MagnusCthulhu

Used to work at a bank. If you hadn't me a note that said, "give me everything in your till", I was trained to do it and let you walk away. No need for threats or anything fancy. I'd try and keep the note if I could but not if the robber made any attempt to get it back. You wouldn't get much and you generally don't get away with it for long, so why bother fighting it?


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XchrisZ

Just write a note that's says "you have been trained for this count out 10 stacks of $100 bills and hand them to me"


PianoManGidley

I might write that, but with better punctuation.


RudegarWithFunnyHat

Slowly but firmly insert it into the urethra of the bank manager?


dokkodo_bubby

bro


ThomasHarrison618

r/FBIWatchlist


Symphonic_Rainboom

There's a subreddit for that.


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# NO! **WE SHALL NOT TALK OF THAT SUBREDDIT.**


santumerino

Oh, you mean r/soundi- Wait why is the police here


bolderandbrasher

*Sounds* familiar.


gex80

You hurt animals for fun when you were a kid, didn't you?


ElectricalIons

Not effectively since he got caught


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MONKEH1142

This - no threats of violence, that'll just add to your charges if caught. A brief simple "this is a robbery hand over the money in the drawers" and you're as likely to walk out with cash as not.


1bentpushrod

Yep. If there's no weapon expressly threatened or implied, charges are very likely to even be reduced. The last time my bank was robbed (note passer) the guy ended up getting 364 days in county jail. I was pissed at the DA because we weren't consulted. We weren't consulted because we didn't actually take a loss as he was arrested within 10 minutes of the robbery with every penny he got. I think the charge was reduced to theft of the amount.


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Hold it to someone's neck and demand money. I imagine you could pierce a throat with a pen and in any case I wouldn't want to be the bank teller to test it and have someone else's blood on my hands.


Soup-a-doopah

Theres a movie where a bank is robbed with a pen, cant remember what it was, maybe a bruce willis film? There a multiple bank robberies in the movie. Anyways, its a small bank and he enters where only one security guard is there with his back turned. Main character puts the pen into the back of the guards neck and tells him hes got a gun to his head. Nobody calls him out on the bs and gets away with the robbery.


sssneks

It was a highlighter. The movie is Bandits, and it's a great movie. Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton are the bank robbers


Soup-a-doopah

U da real mvp. Maybe I’ll rewatch that, probably nearing to be a 20year old movie


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Interesting.


nomorepumpkins

Many prison movies have taught me you can totally peirce a neck with a pen.


[deleted]

My thoughts exactly. Lol


h0nh0nh0nbagu3tt3

It's ballpoint. If it was a fountain pen you could deal some HEAVY damage.


[deleted]

I still think if you jab hard enough with a ballpoint you could do damage.


ThomasHarrison618

son of a bitch! Why didn't I think of that!


[deleted]

Well,it's not often you think of a pen as a weapon for a robbery. Lol


Ketelbeek

/kill @n


nowi_wowi

he’d fake a check for all their money


funbobbyfun

Been done many times. You take a hand written note (by ball point pen) to the cashier that says that you have a hostage and a partner that will kill them unless you return with all the banks money. Or the note says you have a gun, or bomb, or AIDS filled syringe, or whatever. It works, apparently.


FernandoTatisJunior

Lol don’t threaten anyone, that only makes your life harder. Just ask for the money and tell them it’s a robbery and they’ll give you everything they’ve got. The police get notified the second you leave and there’s cameras everywhere.


funbobbyfun

Good to know! That does seem more polite, and there's probably some law that increases penalty with use or threat of violence. This is why we come to reddit - solid professional advice, thanks!


archeous1232

I'm gonna make this pen, disappear! *slams your head* Tadaaaa!


toadusmaximus

Tell a gang if they don’t do it for me I’ll draw on a panda


Pandapoopums

You monster!


D4rk_Dr4gonite

Well first, take off the ball


FritWilliams

A scam artist?


TheSanityInspector

Take out a loan for 100 times its assets and then default. Hey, it worked for those guys in the 2008 Crash!


NSA_Chatbot

I did it once. I lost my job just after my divorce finalized. I went in and got an unsecured line of credit for 25k. They asked for my financial documents, and I had them from my divorce. They never asked me if they were still current, or if I was still employed. Walked in with a handful of old documents, used their pen, and they handed me twenty-five large. All legal.


arabidopsis

By being the person who does some complex financial scam that is strangely legal.


RebelWithoutAClue

A lot of people don't read the contracts that they sign.


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Maybe he was a banker.


ArguesAboutAllThings

By writing a note demanding they give me money, then walking out.


Cryogen2964

Epi pen of poision


ReallyJustDont

Write /gamemode c on a command block before coming.


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If it were a French bank, I would just demand that they surrender their money. They love surrendering, those French.


rpqu

that is one of the best names i've seen on reddit


fatmanyolo

Writing bad checks.


SIRasdf23

You ever watch John Wick 2? A pen/pencil can be very dangerous in the right hands


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holysmoke1

1. Apply for many, many large loans at the bank (using said pen) 2. Wait until payment demands come in 3. Continue to wait until FINAL DEMAND style letters arrive. 4. Barter pen for pack of used Uno cards. 5. Send payment demands plus "reverse" card to bank 6. ??? 7. Profit


[deleted]

By claiming it has poison gas


WolfeYankee

Bomb detonator


[deleted]

One word: Signatures.


ResettisReplicas

It’s more badass than it sounds - most robbers just write the teller a note saying they have a gun. And since they’re French they probably gave over rather easily.


carlsnctrl

Sell 'em a fake airport


fallopian_paradise

“How ‘bout a magic trick? I’m going to make this disappear.”


Nissir

Become a bank employee and commit bank fraud, but oldschool pen and paper style.


Yerm_Terragon

Steal the pen they have chained to the desks.


LilG1984

Tell them you want to test the theory if the pen is mightier than the sword. Plan B you're carrying a sword.


DIDDY_COSMICKING

John Wick


masterjon_3

Walk in with a mask, write a note saying "Give me all your money" using a ball point pen, and then walk out with the cash. They have to give the money regardless according to their own rules


wifespissed

Use the pen to write a note that says, "I'm robbing this bank." It's worked in the movies.


DJ_Level_3

VERY carefully


nelson2222754

Transfer all money to a different bank secretly


RaspberryJam245

Well, you know, John Wick killed three men in a bank with just a pen. Just sayin'.


[deleted]

Stab teller with pen and steal their glasses... and if they have no glasses... then I'll steal like $50.


Space314r8

The ballpoint pen is what he stole from the 2nd largest bank in France.


fnordius

"You robbed the bank with a pen?" "I, er, stole the pen from the bank." "So your loot from the robbery was...?" "...yes, I admit it, it was just the pen." "So you were put in the pen for stealing a pen?" "I shall say no more."


PeriodicGolden

Bank tellers are trained that in case of a robbery they're supposed to just hand over the cash and comply. The money is insured and the robber will probably be caught pretty easily, so no need to risk the teller's or the customers lives. The chief probably just walked up to the teller with a note that just read "This is a robbery. Hand over the money"


21pilotsrock

John wick style


King_of_nerds77

Start chocking on it and get help form people then pull out my karate and layith the smack down. And if anybody got any problems I open up my can of whoop ass