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You have to give the guy credit. Arrested, he escapes into the ceiling tiles, steals a uniform, and walks out the front door. Arrested by a frackin SWAT team, he steals the squad car he's placed in and makes a run for it? Hats off, ladies and gentlemen; we have a winner.

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What I'm afraid of are the multitudes of copycat buglers who may look up to him as a role model, meanwhile causing more harm than good.

The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)

Amen!

I am glad to see people on this thread who can differentiate between the morality of what he did and the actual skill, balls, and sheer luck this guy had.

While I do not condone or advocate stealing from banks or anyone, well, the damn banks do not seem to have a problem with stealing from clients . . . where I live, the banks charge the local currency equivalent of FIVE US DOLLARS per deposit, even small deposits . . . I had to order a couple of PC parts a few weeks ago, and experienced it for myself . . . stood in line for 30 minutes (out of 8 teller windows, only 4 were manned, and this is in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday) and paid that much to deposit the local currency equivalent of 15 US . . . this is in a country where minimum wage is like $2 US per hour folks . . . someone has to be a straight sheep to criticize a person who steals from banks while not saying the same about the banks themselves . . .

"where I live, the banks charge the local currency equivalent of FIVE US DOLLARS per deposit, even small deposits . . . [more stuff the bank does ]"

And this is stealing? It happens against your will, without your consent?

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Yes it is stealing, since the bank is aware that people are forced by circumstance into using their "services". It was either use that bank, or not order the parts I needed.

Defending banks in this day and age denotes a lack of brains AND moral fiber

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Calling it stealing when you walk into the bank and ask for permission to store your money there and use their services denotes a little something too.

Oh noes, another one defending the banks . . . look, it's very SIMPLE: overcharging clients that much simply because the bank in question CAN is predatory to the point where it amounts to stealing, there is no justification for charging that much, specially in a country as poverty ridden as this one. If you like overpaying that much, suit yourself, but defending such institutions at this point is beyond ludicrous.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poverty.jpg

That is poverty. $5 bank fees is not. Get a new bank or make fewer deposits.

Hey, a-hole

Those are daily scenes in this (The Republic of Colombia) country

How dare you

Go F yourself

You're in Colombia? I find it pretty hard to believe any latino in Latin America would be so careless with their finances that they let $5 deposit fees hit them more than once per month.

But what do I know ... I'm just an Australian who's been living in Central America in countries much poorer than Colombia... but at least the people a little north of you are nicer. : )

You spoiled little swine, you have no idea, how fng dare you

Calling yourself a hacker while doing .net and flash?

You little PUSSY

You little BITCH

How dare you, sitting in your gluttonous SWINE of a country, you spoiled little swine

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