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That is hilarious. Maybe it is because I (currently) love bicycles, but the first thing I would have noticed is a custom steel bike. Unfortunately, I do not possess the ability to ride fast enough to elude the police.
I'm sure it was always been primarily fiction.
But there is a history of the romanticizing of "Bank Robbery". Maybe starting with Robin Hood-ROB from the rich, give to the poor, and playing out through the Old West legends, and later Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger. For some reason, we seem to want to embrace the "non-malignant" bank robber. Although considered a hoax, for many years the story of Dillinger writing a thank you note to Henry Ford for building a great get-away vehicle, was presented as a "positive" story.
Realistically? I think a big difference is in the 30's, 40's, you "might" be able to imagine robbing a bank, and getting away with it, in relatively cursory fashion. But today? With surveillance camera's, alarms and basically being surrounded by an entire public armed with recording cell phones? The idea of realistically getting away with that crime seems impossible, steel bike or otherwise.
Todays fictional stories seem to of morphed. Now we tell the story of Theft Savants. And the crime is presented in a Mission Impossible like fashion, with an Oceans 11 approach.
Somewhere I think our romanticized outlook changed.
Don't ask me exactly where or when, but we've gone from Pretty Boy Floyd...to "Dog Day Afternoon"....to Casino's being elaborately stalked by George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
I'm sure it was always been primarily fiction.
But there is a history of the romanticizing of "Bank Robbery". Maybe starting with Robin Hood-ROB from the rich, give to the poor, and playing out through the Old West legends, and later Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger. For some reason, we seem to want to embrace the "non-malignant" bank robber. Although considered a hoax, for many years the story of Dillinger writing a thank you note to Henry Ford for building a great get-away vehicle, was presented as a "positive" story.
Realistically? I think a big difference is in the 30's, 40's, you "might" be able to imagine robbing a bank, and getting away with it, in relatively cursory fashion. But today? With surveillance camera's, alarms and basically being surrounded by an entire public armed with recording cell phones? The idea of realistically getting away with that crime seems impossible, steel bike or otherwise.
Todays fictional stories seem to of morphed. Now we tell the story of Theft Savants. And the crime is presented in a Mission Impossible like fashion, with an Oceans 11 approach.
Somewhere I think our romanticized outlook changed.
Don't ask me exactly where or when, but we've gone from Pretty Boy Floyd...to "Dog Day Afternoon"....to Casino's being elaborately stalked by George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Well I think there's always going to be this romanticizing when it is framed as stealing from the rich to provide for the poor or less fortunate.
Originally Posted by marmaladedad
That is hilarious. Maybe it is because I (currently) love bicycles, but the first thing I would have noticed is a custom steel bike. Unfortunately, I do not possess the ability to ride fast enough to elude the police.
I'm pretty sure the cops were looking for a speeding car. Sounds like he even got away when they were on his tail! Looks like it eventually caught up to him.
01-31-2019, 08:11 PM
