I was NOT held hostage for a second time this week. (Remember, the first time was when I was NOT held hostage by Fab when he took over my blog this past weekend.) This time I was NOT held hostage by an armed bank robber that robbed the Wells Fargo Bank across the highway from where I work. As for the title of this post, do robbers really say that anymore? Or is that soooo last year?
From the StarTribune:
The Minneapolis FBI is looking for a man who robbed a bank Tuesday morning in [name of the city where I work]. The lone man approached a teller and presented a note demanding money.
The robber stashed an undisclosed amount of cash into a black drawstring backpack and left the Wells Fargo Bank at [address of the bank]. on foot, Special Agent Paul McCabe said.
Authorities said the suspect is a white man with olive colored skin. He is in his mid 20s and approximately 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 165 pounds. The robber was wearing gold-rimmed sunglasses, a black T-shirt with white lettering on the front and a black baseball cap with the “Major League Baseball” logo on the front at the time of the heist, which happened at 10:15 a.m.
The suspect also was wearing a white gauze-type bandage on his left cheek, the FBI said.
The police had most of the businesses in the area on lock down, but not us. They did not even inform us. What would be a better place for someone, who has a bandage on his cheek, to hide out? Might it not have been a good idea for them to tell us to be on the look out for someone who might come in looking like that?
In any case, we found out about it when some of our patients came in kind of freaked out about the whole thing. I mean, our building is right across the street from the bank. Finally our administrative staff called the police and sent around an email about it, but I am sure the threat was over and/or the suspect long gone by then.
I took all the names and/or addresses out in the interest of not getting dooced/fabbed. I know you could probably still research it and figure it all out and stalk me now that I gave you a map of how to find me, but, eh, oh well. Stalk away. Just don’t tell my employers and get me fired.
freaky deaky girl.
I love the map though!
also. getting stuck up by fab ? thats sounds kinky!
Wow…it is just like looking at a Rand McNally map!
Hey, I actually remembered to sign out. Aren’t you proud of me?
I never did see the brilliance to putting a bank right next to a highway.
I’m glad everyone’s okay.
OMG!!! I’ve been trying to find directions to ‘Yet Another Hotel!! Mapquest has nothing on you!!
I just realized that a lot of weird shit happens in your neck of the woods!
Nice day at the office dear?
Didn’t I send you a postcard? If so, I have your address.
I use to work at a bank, and one of the other branches always was robbed. Finally they moved it. It was a bad location, easy for a crook to get away.
You know what went into that spot? Another bank!
Hmm..take a right on Blvd. and she is right next door to a restaurant, and a hotel on the other side. Got it!
We go into lockdown at my office at least once a month. Gotta love those batterers who figure out that their favorite toy to beat up on is in this small town.
WTF, they didn’t alert you at all? Wow, that’s kinda messed up if you ask me. There was a bank up the street from the dealer I worked at that was robbed all.the.time. I think it was a Wells Fargo too!
Blue–It does, doesn’t it?
Fab–I may go into the map making business. And yes, yes I am proud of you.
Barbara–Me either. It isn’t the only one, either. The building off of our campus houses a bank among other things as well.
MM–You mean like building collapses, bank robberies, politicians propositioning cops in the bathroom of an airport and floods? Am I missing anything? Do you think that God hates us?
Finn–Exciting anyway. lol
Lynda–That is freaking ridiculous! And hilarious! How was your birthday?
Trish K–Where do you work?
ANO–I know. It’s really weird that the police didn’t tell us.
MM–You know the funny thing about the “yet another hotel”? There are two more right near by. One of them is where I wrote “more buildings and shit” and the other one is down the blvd about a block if you go left leaving my clinic. You would think that we lived in a high tourist area or near the airport or something, but, actually, we are about 40 miles from the major airport and we live in a very northern suburb of the Twin Cities, where all of the attractions you would want to see are located. Who plans these things?
I work at a domestic violence center. We have a shelter, at another location, but the idiots still manage to find our Administration office. No, it does not have any signage, but we have been in the community for 25 years…
I am surprised that such things still happen. Each time I enter the bank I see lots of cameras and robbing a bank involves a very good team, at least in the movies. Can’t believe what this guy did.