• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    I worked at a bank branch for 7 years. They always catch the guy. Not sometimes. Always. Mostly because we didn’t carry much cash in the first place and a bank robber never robs 1 bank and calls it quits. It’s simply not sustainable in the long run.

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      Counterpoint: when my wife’s ex-husband was deep in the throes of heroin addiction, he managed to rob the same bank twice and get away with it both times.

      You might be right that he’d be caught eventually, but he OD’d before he could try a third time.

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        I had been robbed a few times. The last time I got robbed, I said “See you next time!”

        Unfortunately for that person, it was the last time.

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    The risk reward on bank robbery is not good. They don’t carry much money for you to be able to grab, the serial numbers will be recorded and traced back when they show up spent, and they put a lot of effort into catching robbers. Any thing that causes a bank to lose money is made into a serious crime they prosecute hard.

    Idk what’s a better way to get some money if you have to, but robbing a bank is not it. Unless you can do it well, some dudes in Sweden hijacked a helicopter and stole a 17 million dollar equivalent bank transfer on some skyscraper that had a helipad. They supposedly caught them, but never recovered the money as I’m aware.

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      Idk what’s a better way to get some money if you have to

      busking isn’t bad. if you don’t know how to play, choose a quieter instrument and learn in public.

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        Not so far away from my place there is a big mall where at the entrance there is is this guy playing styrian harmonica (I think, but his is smaller size and is 100% not Accordion). He has a speaker that plays backing-track.

        I play an instrument and know a thing or two about music. I swear that this guy just keeps playing random chords (more like random notes that doesnt make a valid chord 90% of the time) while backing-track covers him up. He must be quite often playing there as I see him on my random visits to the mall almost every time.

        He doesn’t even try to hide his skills, as some fake street musicians sometimes do. I wonder if he gets any money from busking.

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    I don’t even need a house but high density housing is shifting towards being built as a luxury because its more profitable (and less work) to sell a couple to the people that DO pay than keep everything always occupied for affordable pricing.

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      Outside the post WWII bubble most new construction is always luxury focused. The old luxury becomes the entry and mid level places.