I walked into a bank robbery in progress...

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If I had my chance, I would walk out the door and not look back with the exception of trying to get the getaway car info. Make that call to the police and just try to remain like I am not there...out of sight, out of mind...of the BG's.

If I was stuck inside the bank, I would just follow orders and lay low. Try to be a good witness. That money is insured and its not worth starting a fire fight over IMHO. Generally, if all the victims play by the rules, nobody will get hurt. Its when somebody wants to be a hero, people get killed.

The other side of the coin is that IF you were in any state of awareness, you would know that with a car parked like that and somebody in the drivers seat, its a bad sign, and you should have made a different decision.

If you think something is wrong, it probably is.
 
Run outside. Call 911. Give description of car & plate. Tell 911 you have a gun and ask what you should do. They will probably say, "put your gun on the ground and take 30 steps back with hands in the air". :confused:
 
45GAP or 45ACP?
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One of each. The .45 G.A.P. is my backup because it's slightly smaller and fits perfectly inside my cowboy boots. Magazine interchangeability is not an issue as I carry ten magazines for each pistol in a cross bandoleer. I help myself remember that the .45 G.A.P. magazines start on the left side of my body because G = G.A.P. = German = Links = Left.
 
I agree with those who said basically "exit the bank, call 911, get plate number and description, monitor while keeping 911 on the line".

Initially I thought of doing something to disable the getaway car, like puncture a tire with my pocket folding knife or shoot the radiator. After further reflection, I thought "what would I do if I needed to get away frantically and my getaway vehicle was disabled?" I'd either carjack the nearest person, or take a hostage - both worse than simply letting them drive away without a hostage and having the police intercept them in a time and manner of their own choosing.

It's just money, and not MY money, the bank is insured and with my descriptions, there's not much chance they'll get away from the police. Not worth getting killed over, and not worth endangering someone else's life as a hostage. Let them roll with it, they'll get what's coming to them.

You really don't want to be visibly armed and involved in the conflict when the police show up. Even off duty cops have been shot under such circumstances and I wouldn't like those odds.
 
Hey choochboost, I'm a new member, and I can honestly say that stuff like this has only happened to me 3 or 4 dozen times. :D (Kidding).

Evan Price, funniest thing that I've read in a long time.
 
Slowly walk around the corner in the hopes that the getaway driver doesn't know you've made them, and pull out your mobile 'phone. Dial the Peelers.
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Best advice I've heard. Be the best witness you can. I'd probably go so far as to make my way back to my own car, position myself so that I could observe AND follow if necessary, and stay on the phone with 911.

Fortune favors the bold.
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Fortes fortuna juvat Sounds rather familiar...;)
 
That sucks

FreedomK if I was in the situation you were in I would have left the building. I would have casually walked back past the getaway car and taken a picture with my cell phone of the car, person, and plates. Calling the cops is not necessary because most banks have silent alarms that they can trigger when they are being robbed.

While a 5 shot J frame is a nice little gun for concealed carry I would not want to use it against gun wielding bank robber. If I had a carbine in the car, or one of my competition guns I would be more likely to engage them. 5 rounds out of a J frame don’t get you very far in my opinion.



PS I would be interested to know what bank this happened at?
 
The other side of the coin is that IF you were in any state of awareness, you would know that with a car parked like that and somebody in the drivers seat, its a bad sign, and you should have made a different decision.
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Can't necessarily blame him for not picking up on that. I've gone into places quite often when some car was sitting outside in a place they can't park with the engine on, with and often even without someone in the car.

At first I was thinking of shooting pepper spray cone through the cracks of the window of the get away car provided that there was no one inside (I don't think you specified if someone was inside). That way when they tried to get away, even though it wouldn't be incapacitating to have it in the car, it would be so unpleasant with coughing spasms that they probably would take forever to get in the car or get in a car accident. Some people even say slash the tires or blow out parts of the car with the gun. But then I was thinking about that although there's a good chance that it's their getaway car, you don't know that for sure until after the incident. I've been to banks quite often when someone's just sitting in a car not in a parking space waiting for someone and no bank robbery happens. It's always possible that in a situation like that a customer could be inside the bank, the bank robbers come, and the person waiting inside the car is just thinking, "She's taking a long time cashing that check. Five more minutes and I'm going inside to give her a hard time!" So if you were to start shooting at the car and it turned out to be a mistake (not the robber's but someone else's), you could get into a lot of trouble in court.

If I felt like I could get outside without being seen, I would, and then would call the police. If I didn't, I wouldn't; have your back facing someone with a gun and having to go through glass doors that slow you down and can still be shot through may not be a good thing. Then just because you're inside doesn't mean you'll get shot. I few years ago I had a roommate who was inside a bank when an armed robbery happened. The robbers with guns shouted at everyone to get on the floor. That roommate was the only one who didn't get on the floor. He thought to himself, "What are they going to do? Shoot me? They're here for the money. If they wanted to kill someone they would have already shot them." He also told me that he thinks that police are lazy and stupid because they didn't question him because he was the only one that didn't get down on the ground during the robbery (he doesn't seem to understand probable cause because he didn't do any thing that would have been seen as assisting the robbers and was still there even when they left).
 
I make an egress back out to the parking lot, jump in the back seat of the getaway car and when the robber jumps in behind the wheel I stick the barrel of my gat in his temple and say "Feelin' lucky punk? Well, are ya?.........Go ahead, make my day."

:D
 
I would pretend to casually walk to my car, then take my integrally-supressed Beretta Carbine from behind the seat. Then I pull out that pack of Tannerite I keep with in the center console, ready it, and with a measured underhand throw I toss it under the car. When all the goblins are inside, I hit the 50-state legal explosive with a burst, and sudden the getaway is accelerating vertically.

BTW, Evan Price, THAT is why banknotes are raining from the sky:D
 
I sure as hell wouldn't shoot the bank robbers unless they pointed their guns at me. Otherwise, the bank should have had their own damn security.
 
All the talk of slashing tires and pepper-spraying the car... c'mon! There have been more than a few occasions when my wife and I were running errands, one of which would be "go by the bank".

Most of the time, I'll drop her off by the door so she doesn't have as far to walk, then I'll wait in the parking lot for her. That way I can move the car in case I'm blocking somebody, or in case a close parking spot opens up. I'll tell ya... anybody indiscriminately slashing MY tires, or pepper-spraying ME better not be around after I exit the vehicle...
 
1) I'd be packing more than a .38
2) I'd run like a little girl ... my gun is for protecting ME and MINE, not stopping bank robberies.
3) Once I got a little ways away I'd call 911and give them a complete description (including plates) and maybe snap some pics of the getaway car with my camera phone.


No response yet from FreedomKommando?

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Probably not, but its still a good "What If..." drill.
 
I've just walked across the street where it's safer and am watching and waiting to see just what in hell you're gonna do!!!:D
 
Evan Price

You are my hero. That was hillarious I just made everyone in the house come to the computer and read it. Very nice
 
I think I would get on the phone and get the Massachusetts Miscreant Ted Kennedy, to swing by the bank and offer the supposed "safety" of his vehicle to the departing robbers. Meanwhile, the honorable Senator from Califorinia Diane Fienstein would show up to cover the perimeter, and to protect the peons.

As the robbers come out, she will strut up and say in a haughty, commanding voice "Turn 'em over boys, because those evil assault weapons are not allowed here". They will happily turn them over to her, because criminals ALWAYS comply with gun laws. When they are handing her the weapons so they don't get in REAL trouble, she will exercise her personal right to legally carry a gun and draw down on them.

Since she will probably be the only one in the city with a valid CCW(royaly has its rewards), I will stand by and watch as she shoots them, one by one, in the eye. Teddy will exit his vehicle in a drunken, porcine tactical roll(actually tripped over a fifth of Jack Daniels), and help her stuff the bodies in the back seat. Then its off the nearest bridge to sink the evidence. He will consider himself very lucky because this time he doesn't have to listen to a young staffer scream for help as she is drowning. Lucky Ted, have another shot on me.

Teddy Boy will eventually show up at a press conferance with Diane, looking disheveled and wet, and they will blame the whole incident on President Bush, and his failure to lead the nation in a time of crisis. Move along folks, nothing to see here. Business as usual.:neener:
 
Having a gun or not as described here is irrelvant, because no one is in immediate danger.

I would exit the area with all the speed my fat ass can muster, and then call the police on my cell.


If I see it as extremely low risk, i would possibly remove the keys from the ignition or insert shirt button into the ignition.
 
Call me skeptical but...

New poster.

Individual's chance of walking in on bank robbery while armed on the order of getting struck by ball lightning while riding in a UFO.

Calls himself a "kommando".

Posts and leaves.

I've drawn my own conclusion. You draw yours. :scrutiny:
 
Most elegantly simple....

Be a good witness, and de-ass the area. I don't get paid to be a hero anymore.

You owe no one in that bank anything. Especially not your life.

You, I assume, have a family to which you'd like to go home to. You Do owe it to your family to come home.
 
Thanks for the positive reviews. I'm no Nightcrawler but I like to write.

Anyway, it is a pair of XD45ACP's. For some reason I carry two of them but no reloads. Probably because I only run out of ammo when it is necessary for furtherance of the script.

"Hollywood Ammo Rules Apply!"
 
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