What is the most successful way to rob a bank?

The answer to this question may surprise you – convenience store-style robbery.

So, what is a "convenience store-style robbery"?

It's simple: walk into a convenience store, threaten the clerk at gunpoint to hand over the money from the cash register, and leave the scene.

You don't need careful planning, you don't need strong physical fitness, as long as you have one person, one gun, pick one person less time, and take a general look at the surrounding situation, you can do it.

Many of the people who commit this kind of robbery don't even drive their cars, because they know that they will definitely be caught on the surveillance, and it is easier to leave a trail when driving, so they simply commit the crime on foot.

Compared with those complex criminal activities, this kind of brainless robbery of "do it and say it" can often be successful.

And one of the most critical elements is fast.

The shorter the process of a robbery, the lower the risk factor and the higher the success rate.

This is an iron rule that everyone understands, but not all robberies apply this set of rules, especially bank robberies.

However, in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there was indeed a robber who used this "convenience store-style robbery" method to rob banks.

This man is neither an international thief nor an iron-blooded bandit, he is just an ordinary middle-aged man, which can be proved by many eyewitnesses.

This person is not like those well-known bank robbers in history, who have become famous and infamous for thousands of years by robbing tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in a single case......

His method of robbery is very simple - pick a small bank or credit union in a small town, walk into the lobby, shoot directly at the ceiling, and then aim at the bank clerks on the counter, ask them to pocket as much money as possible, no matter how much they end up, he will take the money and leave the scene within five minutes.

is such a set of processes that can be completed in just a few words, creating a series of unsolved cases that the American police have been pursuing for decades.

Although this robbery plan is so simple that it is not even a "plan", if you analyze it carefully...... You'll find a lot of wisdom in this.

First of all, the robber was well aware of people's psychological weaknesses, and a gunshot could control the scene much faster than a loud roar; Therefore, every time he robbed, he would shoot the ceiling first, and at the beginning of the operation, he would provide a strong deterrent to everyone present.

Secondly, the targets he chose were all small banks with only one or two security guards on duty, and the kind of banks with small lobbies were small, and he could guarantee ...... Before the robbery is completed, the vast majority of people, especially the security guards, are in their sight at all times.

Third, he only took the money on the counter, because most of the money was old money that had already flowed out, and it was very safe; In addition, he would threaten bank staff, telling them (in the United States at that time, more than 90% of bank counters were women), saying things like "don't play tricks", "I'm not stealing your personal money, don't be a hero", "If you dare to put marked money in, I will not only be able to see it, but I will shoot it...... In that case, no one would take any chances.

Finally, and most importantly, he will not lose his mind because of greed, that is...... Know how to accept when you see it.

He would never ask the bank manager to open the vault for him, nor would he be stranded because he saw that there was still a lot of money on the table that had not been put in his pocket; He strictly controlled the timing of the robbery...... As long as he feels it's time to go, he'll go.

Relying on such a set of methods, this person has committed more than ten crimes in a few years, and has repeatedly succeeded, although the amount of money he robbed each time is not too much, but in that era when there were no cameras and the dollar did not experience so many inflations, this guy has accumulated millions of dollars, and has always been at large...... This makes him one of the biggest headaches for the police and the FBI, none of the bank robbers.

If the method of robbing a bank is considered as a mathematical formula, then a convenience store-style robbery is likely to be the Badgoch conjecture of "robbing the silver world".

Yes, and understanding, are two different things.

Just because you know that one plus one equals two doesn't mean you can prove that one plus one equals two.

You look like Wang Ba punched the master to death, but in fact, Dugu Jiujian has no tricks to win.

Of course, I don't say all this to teach you how to rob a bank, but to set the stage for my next analogy.

In a word, Yan is not injured, it is the Linghu Chong of the "Silver Robbery Realm...... Oh no, Euclid.

When you think that comparing a person to a fictional master cannot describe his strength in a certain field, then he can only be compared to a mathematician who exists in reality.

Friday the 13th, at noon.

Yan Wuxian and his four accomplices sat in the car together, eating chicken sandwiches and drinking bottled mineral water.

This meal was arranged by Yan Wuxian, and there is no doubt that there is a certain amount of truth.

Speaking of this lunch, in fact, all four of his accomplices had different opinions......

"Mr. White" is a fan of B-movie movies, and he thinks they should be like in an old movie, code-name each other, and find a family restaurant to eat before the robbery, and tip the waitresses a dollar each before leaving.

"Mr. Orange" is a rough man, anti-intellectual, hates thinking, and hates being asked to think; When asked what he wanted to eat, nine times out of ten, he responded by going to a drive-thru restaurant to buy a quick snack.

"Mr. Blue" is a striptease club addict who wants everyone to eat at the club buffet.

And "Mr. Pink" is a serious racial prejudice, which is why...... He would rather use the code name "Mr. Pink" than "Mr. Black"; It's just that he never admits that he has discrimination or stereotypes against any race.

When asked what he wanted to eat before the robbery, Mr. Fan said, "Personally, I want to eat blueberry pie and stew, but I guess Mr. Red (Yan Wuxian) You must want to eat Chinese food, right?" Hehe, okay, you don't have to explain, I won't fight with you, I don't want to be beaten by you with kung fu. ”

After listening to the opinions of these four living treasures, Yan Wuxian said that Mr. Bai's idea of code names was good, and it would be safer for them to use code names to match them when robbing, so they kept it; But the offer to go to the family restaurant was rejected by him, because things like bacon, meatloaf, coffee, and beer mixed together had a certain chance of upsetting the stomach...... In the same way, fast food is not allowed.

Mr. Fan's opinion made Yan Wuxian cry and laugh, and in a sense, he couldn't eat Chinese food.

As for the proposal to go to a strip club, Yan Wuxian did not say anything, and the others did not pay attention to it - if you have a friend who rarely gets up in the morning, thinks about going to a nightclub or something like that at noon, and even wants to eat in that kind of place, it is basically ...... You don't have to care about anything he says.

So, in the end...... And so they ate the two things they have now.

This is a reasonable choice that a well-planned person would make; You don't want to get upset or even pull crotch during a robbery due to stress and a lunch not long ago, right? Then just eat clean and be full.

This is also a detail, your body is the capital of the robbery, according to incomplete statistics...... Examples of sudden abdominal pain and heart disease during a robbery may be much higher than you might think.

After lunch and a short rest, the five "gentlemen" "Red, White, Orange, Blue, and Pink" put on ski masks and held semi-automatic rifles, drove to the door of the Federal Savings Bank in downtown Kitchener, and set off on action.

According to the captain Mr. Red...... That is, Yan Wuxian's arrangement, Mr. Orange, who was relatively simple-minded, was left in the car to be responsible for the wind, and the other three rushed into the bank with him.

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As soon as he entered, he fired several shots at the bulletproof glass above the counter, leaving a bullet mark on it.

"Everyone...... Get down! At the same time as Yan Wuxian roared in this voice, he had already walked towards the counter.

In the next second, there was a scream, and his three accomplices immediately began to bluff and control the scene, telling the panicked passers-by to shut up and lie down.

At this moment, the bank's lunch break has just passed, but there are not many people in the lobby, just seven or eight passers-by and two security guards; After all, Kitchener's population density is like that, and 90% of personal banking transactions can be handled online in the first few years.

Mr. White, Blue, and Pink quickly gathered the people together and made them lie in a row on the ground.

Yan Wuxian came to the counter, stuffed four empty, folded large travel bags into the flip-out drawer under the counter, and said to the microphone on the countertop: "I'll give you five minutes, no matter where you take it from or how you take it...... Anyway, use the money to fill the four packs, and then ask your person in charge to carry the bags outside the counter. ”

At this point, he paused, and took out what appeared to be a remote control from his pocket: "A few days ago, I hid a VRHDT ultra-high intensity bomb in your building, which is powerful enough to raze your building to the ground; Five minutes later, if the money came out, I would leave the detonator and leave here with my companions; If you don't show it, you don't have to make excuses or delay it...... I don't want the money, I'll kill everyone who tries to resist, then go out and detonate the bomb. ”

Halfway through Yan Wuxian's words, a manager on duty at the counter had already begun to frantically gesturing to other bank clerks, asking them to gather the money on the counter and put it in their bags, while he himself took three bags, ran to the back quickly, opened the door to the vault with the magnetic card and fingerprints on his body, and called two colleagues to follow along.

Yan Wuxian understood that this manager was a smart person, but he wasn't too smart...... Such a person will make his plan smoother.

In fact, Yan Wuxian didn't install any bombs at all, the so-called "VRHDT" is actually an abbreviation he saw on the billboard on the side of the road today, which means "wireless network virtual reality high-definition TV", and the "detonator" in his hand is just a TV remote control; He would talk about the "bomb model" because when he made up a lie, adding this kind of detail that no one knows what it was anyway would greatly increase the credibility.

Obviously, even the bomb is fake, and the threat of "kill everyone in five minutes" is just talk.

It's not that Yan Wuxian has never killed anyone, but he has his own principles, and he will not kill people unless he has to; He said it very desperately, just so that the other party did not have the energy and time to think, and used pressure to force the other party not to dare or cannot do superfluous things.

Five minutes, not too long, not too short.

It took exactly five minutes from the silent straight alarm in the bank counter to the arrival of the police, which was the data obtained by Yan Wuxian through experiments (reporting false alarms) and calculations (looking at the map to measure the distance and check the route). If there happened to be a patrol car nearby, maybe two police officers would have arrived earlier, but Yan Wuxian's choice of robbery time was a time when there were no patrol cars nearby...... This, of course, was also in his calculations.

There is basically no traffic jam in this part of Kitchener, so there will not be much error at this time; Sure enough, when the bank manager pulled four travel bags full of money out of the counter door in two separate pieces, sirens could be faintly heard outside.

"White, blue." After the four bags were placed on the ground, Yan Wuxian turned his head sideways and shouted.

When Mr. Bai and Mr. Lan heard the sound, they immediately came over to get the money.

There are two things in this world that you will feel lighter than they actually are when you carry them, and that is money and women.

At this moment, the two of them have this illusion...... Don't look at the heavy bags they carry, but their steps are brisk, and in less than twenty seconds, the two of them have already returned to the car with the money.

Yan Wuxian also left the "detonator" and withdrew from the bank lobby with Mr. Fan.

Since the hostages lying on the ground were all feet on the door, no one dared to get up until the robbers left.

Everything went smoothly.

Everything is developing according to Yan Wuxian's plan......

When their SUV started, the police cars that rushed to the front were still two blocks away from them, and the direction in which those police cars came was also consistent with Yan Wuxian's prediction.

In the next step, they only need to follow the route arranged by Yan Wushu in advance, avoid the police round-up from other jurisdictions, drive at full speed for about one kilometer, and then, in an area with many surrounding alleys and narrow roads, throw a homemade "smoke bomb box" towards the rear.

The box could envelop a large area in thick, choking smoke, and the improvised police would not be equipped with the corresponding equipment, but they could put on the gas masks they had already prepared, get out of the car, divide the money in two, and escape from the alley in two ways.

Yan did not hurt the amount of money demanded by the employer, an individual or organization codenamed "Tobacco Club...... It's roughly enough to fill two large bags of money, so in the end, as long as one of the two teams escapes, the mission is considered a success.

Of course, it would be better if both teams could run away, and then they would have four big bags.

According to the rules of the Dao, in addition to providing the funds, equipment, and false identities required before the robbery, the employer is also responsible for laundering money after the robbery, and then divides the "clean money" obtained to the executor in proportion to the "clean money" obtained in this kind of bank robbery. And if the executor is able to "overperform" his or her work, then the share will become extremely high, often exponentially.

The vote that Yan Wuxian did today, from the moment they walked out of the bank with the money, has been considered to be ninety percent, and the last one percent...... That is, "running away", but Yan Wuxian is the best at it; After a while, as long as the smoke came together, he got into the alley, and the hundred people couldn't catch him...... Believe it or not, even if Yan Wushu was carrying two large bags of cash, he used parkour to get rid of this group of people.

However, just when his deal was infinitely close to success, he unexpectedly ...... appeared.

A "rhino" (police heavy-duty SUV, enhanced suspension and impact performance, built-in EMP, pop-up nail strap, etc.) suddenly drove out of a fork in the road in front of them, and approached them directly within 15 meters.

"What's going on? Why is there such a thing as a rhinoceros all of a sudden? Mr. Orange, who was driving, panicked at the time, even though he stepped on the accelerator, but the gap in the performance of the vehicle still made him gradually catch up.

The answer to this question...... Yan Wuxian also wanted to know, he had investigated the distribution of police forces and resources in the surrounding jurisdiction, unless someone could foresee that they would run down this road a minute in advance, it was impossible for a car to chase this place at this point in time with the normal response mechanism of the federal police.

And in fact, it is.

The officer piloting the Rhino was a retired soldier who had been wounded in the Battle of Cochin, one of the major frontal battles between the Resistance and the Federation.

Half a month ago, he had just finished treatment for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and was confirmed to be able to join the police force. According to the doctor, he has basically recovered, at most, he may become more mentally sensitive than the average person.

Today, at the same time that Yan was robbing the bank without injury, this "police officer" in the garage of a police station a few kilometers away ...... Suddenly, he began to feel a strong sense of "déjà vu", and in those few minutes, he found that everything he saw and heard became familiar, and he could even rush to say the next sentence when chatting with his colleagues......

In this way, in a kind of ominous premonition that he could not explain himself, "it felt that something big might happen", he took a "rhinoceros"; Ignoring his partner's complaints, he drove the car out of the police station as if he "followed his feelings".

A few minutes later, he had already driven a kilometer, and he really received an alarm from the communication channel......

So, there is this scene in front of us.

"Damn! It's up! In the impact and squeezing of the rhinoceros, Mr. Orange yelled and cursed as he tried to stabilize the body.

But in any case, their speed slowed down, and the other police cars that were gradually chasing from behind were the references.

Boom!

After a short chase and collision, the robbers in the SUV were about to vomit, and at this time, the "Rhinoceros" next to them gave them an even worse EMP attack.

In this day and age, almost all cars are electric main drive or hybrid gasoline and electric vehicles...... The results of being attacked by EMP speak for themselves.

Yan Wushu and their car lost control and began to slide sideways, and there was an arc intersection in front of them, so that their car would be surrounded by police cars and stuck in the dead end of the curve before they could regain speed; The driver of the "Rhinoceros" undoubtedly saw the terrain before decisively activating the EMP, and at this time, he had already begun to slow down, turned the front of the car to the inside of the corner, and stuck to the car in front.

At this critical moment, unexpectedly, the mutation was born again!

But I saw that a school bus full of elementary school students drove out of the intersection in front of it, and in the face of the SUV that was out of control and slid to the corner at high speed, with the steering performance of the school bus, it was inevitable to avoid it......