Missed a Bank Robber by 20 Minutes
And by someone wearing a burqa no less:
Woman robs Brandywine Hundred bank
By TERRI SANGINITI, The News Journal
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 3:59 pmA woman walked into a Brandywine Hundred bank this morning and held up the teller, state police said.
The bandit entered Artisans Bank at 1706 Marsh Road about 10:40 a.m., and approached the teller with a demand note, implying she was armed.
The teller handed over an undisclosed sum of cash, and the woman left the bank.
The woman was in what appeared to be an all-black burqa, with her head and face partially covered, police said.
Anyone with information on her identity is asked to call Troop 2 detectives at (302) 834-2620, ext. 4.
I stopped at a neighboring bank 20 minutes afterward. At the time a single state police cruiser was parked out front. None of the tellers knew what was up – or at least they claimed to not know what was going on when an elderly gentleman asked about the police cruiser next door.
By the time I had left the bank, there were two police cruisers, a crime scene van and two middle-aged guys wearing glasses and ties that screamed “FBI”.
Planck's Constant:
Philly Cop Killed: Time to Ban the Burqa
the niqab and burqa should both be banned on security grounds, “as one cannot have faceless persons walking the streets, driving cars, or otherwise entering public spaces.”
4 May 2008, 11:18 am