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I can't recall many stories about an actual Robin Hood. I'd expect a jury to be much more likely to cut him a break than a typical bank robber. I don't think I
by hirundo 5y ago
I can't recall many stories about an actual Robin Hood. I'd expect a jury to be much more likely to cut him a break than a typical bank robber. I don't think I could vote to acquit, but I might be tempted to convict on a lesser charge if available. But I wonder if what he did with the money would even reach the jury before they decided.
- ehnto 5y agoCommendable for being non-violent I'll give him that, but I think it would be a leap to call him a Robin Hood. He was stealing for a narcissistic rush and he ditched the cash out of pragmatism. I doubt even he believed it was for any kind of altruism. As soon as it could get him an even bigger fix, through drugs and lifestyle, he kept the money. I'm trying not to be cruel, he served his sentence and I don't exactly care that banks lost a few thousand here and there, I hope he's found some kind of peace now. It's just not quite the feel good story that Robin Hood was, this was more a story about unchecked narcissism and substance abuse.
- greggman3 5y agoBanks didn't lose money, their customers did. Mom, kids, families
- jascii 5y agoYou realize that banking is a highly regulated industry and that their customers are insured for these events?
- toast0 5y agoCustomers don't lose money from theft directly (assuming it's theft of bank cash, not theft of deposit boxes), because the theft is replaced from bank capital or insurance or whatever. But it increases the cost of operating the bank, either directly or through higher insurance premiums, which eventually gets passed to customers in lower interest on deposits and higher interest on loans, or higher fees.
- rjbwork 5y agoOr, as most banks are for profit institutions, as lower profits for shareholders.
- thatguy0900 5y agoAt most you could argue insurance or the government lost money. The bank is not deducting money from your account because they got robbed.
- dhosek 5y agoThat bit in The Dark Knight where the Joker claims to have only stolen the money of the mob in the bank robbery always bothered me. I wanted to scream in the theatre, “that’s not how banks work!” I didn’t though.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoWhere does the government get money from? The tooth fairy?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Where does the government get money from? Assuming its a government that operates in its own fiat, it creates it. It may engage in play-acting to pretend that it is working in an external currency where spending must be balanced by revenue plus borrowing, but that is just a fiction and residual habit from a time when it worked in something other than fiat.
- thatguy0900 5y agoThe costs of the money robbed is so far removed from the individual customers who use that bank that it's just as absurd as saying the government gets money from the tooth fairy.
- fitzn 5y agoHe only ditched the money initially. He had more than 20 robberies and the article makes it sound like he was keeping the money from the middle onwards.
- silexia 5y agoHe claims he ditched the cash, but maybe he did not?