[Photo by Ada Calhoun]
The one at St. Mark's Place. (Not the one on East 10th Street.) Officers on the scene earlier this afternoon confirmed a robbery to onlookers. No other details at the moment.
In May 2013, a man named Jerry Gomillion reportedly tried to rob this branch.
[Photo via @Ewingweb]
16 comments:
Re Chase, the text "Not the one on _______" could go on forever.
Crazy! I was in line when the guy robbed it... he was by the teller for no more then 1 min then walked away... I thought, whoa that was a quick bank exchange... So I guess he was the guy who robbed it then quickly left... Another day in my hood
In other news, 80 million Chase consumer accounts plus 7 million Chase business accounts were recently hacked into, but don't worry, your money is safely tucked away. In Russia.
Another "bank robbery" eh? We never hear about the robberies committed by banksters every minute against its depositors and the public -- only when someone re-appropriates a bank's ill-gotten gains.
That was a Washingt6on Mutual branch until that bank was shut down when depositors withdrew their money en masse. Chase then came by to swallow Washington Mutual's corpse.
As Chase is one the largest stockholders (the others are CitiBank and Bank of America) in the bankster-owned Federal Reserve and thereby availed itself of funds not made available to Washington Mutual to shore up cash reserves to avoid closure by the feds, it appears that Chase committed an act of "bank robbery" against Washington Mutual.
I'm glad it wasn't the branch on 10th Street. I like that place. They have free coffee!
I can't beleive it, this neighborhood is usually very safe.
May he skate off into the nigh tand dissappear. no one harmed except an evil banking unstitution. I fail to see him as a bad guy.
"Enemies steal from me, and from you. If you only knew then you would steal too!"
It must be policy to just hand over money if a note is passed... once in a while you hear of a teller who just says 'fuck you, do you not see this 2 inch thick bullet resistant plexiglass?' in their best Samuel L Jackson voice.
I doubt the banks "suffer" for such heists; presumably any losses are passed on to customers in the form of higher transaction fees, lower account interest rates, etc.
I wonder if bank branches keep "fake" money just for these occasions, or at least marked traceable bills.
- East Villager
Satans land grabs
My daddy was a bank robber, but he never hurt nobody. He just loved to live that way. And he loved to steal your money!
Ahhhh! Karma, steal our homes, steal your money
@everybody - the banks loses zero money from robberies; that's what the federally backed insurance is about. The costs of the insurance are already baked in.
@Chris, you got it backwards. Washington Mutual imploded due to its own management's stupidity and greed; they were one of the most over-extended banks processing fraudulant mortgages. Chase didn't really want them; they bought them in exchange for a influx of Fed money.
I had a business account at Wash Mutual for a very small non-profit organization; total amount in the account was typically around $4000. Sometime during the last months of Wash Mutual's existence, I got mail from them offering my group an unsecured loan of $100,000. I wrote them back that, although I am generally in favor of using hallucinogens at work, they shouldn't be so obvious about it. Never got a response. (This got picked up by a reporter from NPR's "Marketplace," but she never got a response, either, so nothing ever aired.)
Bo-ring! If it wasn't a Dog Day Afternoon type of scenario, it's not worth reporting.
Bold as brass...in the middle of the day, no mask, no sunglasses, and...just three blocks from the 9th Precinct on a sunny, busy, Saturday afternoon!
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