You don't need a gun to rob a bank.

Does sound funny to walk in get money and walk out with no fuss at all maybe go to mexico drink a few on the beach and the movie ends comedy gold.

All right, later dudes. S you in your A’s, don’t wear a C, and J all over your B’s

So your saying you can go into any bank without any weapon at all, and very politely say "give me your money" and they will hand it over? Yeahh not too sure about that one. Everybody would do that then.

"everybody dies, but not everyone lives."

I'm pretty sure if you walked into a bank without a gun or a knife or any sort of weapon and tried to rob the bank you stand a pretty good chance of either getting jumped by larger customers who want to be heros or getting into major trouble if they have a cop there which...most banks don't have but that one in the movie did.

Because the bomb was still hours away from detonating.


And so Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I REFUSE your pardon!

George Clooney did that in Out of Sight.

The OP hit the nail on the head; I'm not sure about guns, bombs, or Canadian ADT, but in the US, banks don't keep spare ink-able cash bags for just in case of a robbery. There are similar "tricks" for monitoring robbed cash, but I'd feel morally compromised sharing how on here. Either way, bank robbers don't often get far without being flagged.

No, clients and/or employees don't USUALLY attack bank robbers, because that would be stupid; if you think you'd be a "hero", you wouldn't. Whether robbers are armed or not is highly subjective to anyone except the robber, and bank employees are advised with better intelligence than heroic reason.

To address a poster's comment about how, "...if it were easy everyone would do it..." that is fortunately not true; the amount of time a person WILL spend in prison for robbing a bank is soooo not worth it, and more often than not they do eventually get caught.

The topic of bank robbery isn't a funny movie; its actually stupid, desperate, and a massive pain in the tail for the victims involved. The story while based on actual events (however loosely translated,) is a tragedy of course, but it was suspected that this guy may have actually been involved in the planning of the robbery itself.

I'm surprised IMDB is allowing the continuance of this discussion...

I understand the skepticism because no movie or tv show bothers with reality.

Banks are insured. That's the bottom line. If you rob a bank, they lose nothing. I don't even know why they use dye packs, probably gets them a deduction on their insurance. BUT THEY ARE INSURED. THEY LOSE NOTHING FROM A ROBBERY.

The most common bank robbery nowadays is done unarmed. And you DO NOT HAVE TO THREATEN ANYONE. Bank robbers simply hand a teller a note demanding money. The teller gives them some money, the teller signals the cops, the chase begins.

Why do people not do it all the time? Prison? Morality?

If you don't believe me, I can prove it. Look up the FBI's Bank Crime Statistics.

2009 Q3 (I think this is the most recent)

"Modus Operandi Used

Demand Note Used 641
Firearm Used 344
Handgun 333
Other Firearm 19
Other Weapon Used 20
Weapon Threatened 491
Explosive Device Used or Threatened 41
Oral Demand 657
Vault or Safe Theft 8
Depository Trap Device 0
Till Theft 20"

Total robberies with a weapon of any kind or threatened: 871
Completely unarmed and not threatening: 1298


I think I've proven that not only does this happen, it happens more often than not. The important thing is to find out ahead of time what tactics banks use. You have to get around the decoy money, you certainly don't want to be there with an armed guard. But it is a fact that many banks have an official (though not advertised) policy of handing over the money to anyone who demands it, no matter what.

You guys are stupid. You don't rob banks anymore. It just doesn't work. Too much risk and your reward may never come as you get those dye packs. The real money maker is to hit the armored cars that deliver cash to the banks. Of course that's pretty risky as well but not to the same level as a bank heist.

Or you could just get a job and make some money that way.. you know.. legally.

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