The Games Men Play by Joe Schwartz

Author:Joe Schwartz [Schwartz, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781463739003
Amazon: 1463739001
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2011-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

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Gamblers Anonymous

Put the money in the bag. I have a gun. Do anything stupid and I will kill you.

The note was usually enough to get, and keep, the attention of most bright-eyed tellers. Occasionally the older ones gave Richard a little lip, but he was quick to settle that. It was amazing that some people couldn’t shut up until they actually saw a gun.

If there was a trick to a successful career as a bank robber it was not to shit where you eat. The first time he did a job it was an experiment. Richard had wondered for some time if he could do it. After deciding conclusively that yes he could, the question that remained was could he get away with it?

He drove over six hours to Paducah. Once there, he hit the first independent bank he could find. Corporate banks had scared him then. Lots of cameras and always an armed guard. As he drove home from Kentucky with thirty-one hundred in his pocket, Richard felt as if he finally was doing what he was born to do. The money, though, was superfluous. It was the rush of adrenaline that raced through his veins days after he was home safe, another anonymous person who went to work everyday, that hooked him.

Three banks and two years later he discovered that corporate banks were simply more generous than their independent counterparts. The guards were nothing more than insurance riders. Usually old men with bad vision who couldn’t afford to retire. If an actual ‘dog day afternoon’ broke out they had orders to surrender their weapon immediately. Bank policy was acquiescence, do whatever criminals ordered no matter what may come. Ninety-nine percent of the time it worked. The remaining one-percent were usually apprehended or killed. Police everywhere took it personally when a gun was pointed at them.

Richard studied bank heists at the local library with the vigor theologians applied to the Bible. He loved nothing more than to whittle away an afternoon in the microfiche room reading old newspaper articles. The two common mistakes he found most bank-robbing enthusiasts made were motivated by greed. Amateurs were most often caught because they did little to alter their appearance. Even something simple to disguise their identities like a boonie hat, a fake mustache, or a sunglasses were rarely used. The second deadly sin was they lived in close proximity to their marks. As soon as a picture was released to the media, twenty people raced to be first to call the Feds. A ten thousand-dollar reward was motivation enough for a mother to turn in her own son.

The last job he pulled had been better than a year ago. He walked in to the Wells-Fargo in Kansas City dressed as an elderly woman. After he passed the note, the teller filled his oversized purse with loose cash. Richard was always specific that he did not want banded money. Every stall had a dye pack hidden and undetectable to the naked eye inside a wrap.

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