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Location: Converse, Texas | This is a NO BS story. Very true. It occurred Monday, at 2:15 p.m. This was our first attempted bank robbery since our city was founded in 1961.
We had a guy try to rob a bank in town Monday. Cept he didn't know that the tellers had to "buzz" each customer into the bank as they walked up to the door.
When they saw the would-be heister walk up wearing a mask, they thought something was awry so they didn't buzz him in, but immediately hit the silent alarm that goes to our PD only about 2 miles away. It took Einstein a few minutes of pulling on the door to realize it wasn't going to open and the tellers weren't going to let him in.
As he "walked" to the side of the bank to get into his truck, he pulled his
mask off and looked up at the outside camera.
Right next to the bank is a high school -- that was letting out at the time.
And at 2:15, I have two shifts of cops -- one going off and one going on.
Half of them were at the high school working traffic, so when the bank hit the silent alarm, the call came over the radio, so the cops at the school were looking toward the
bank as the perp jumped into his truck and sped off.
When the perp went out of the parking lot onto Converse Business Lane, he
could have turned left and ended up on a main highway and sped out of town. Instead, he
chose to turn right -- toward a dead end.
But the story gets better.
He sped right past an auto shop -- where two more off-duty Converse cops were working on a race car. After three Converse PD cars sped by chasing
the perp, they decided to join in the chase themselves.
The perp hits the dead end and bails into the woods -- with 6 officers making
chase. Cept he was running toward one of our new subdivisions with brand spanking new roads -- and he was running uphill. Well, one of the other officers had made his way to that subdivision and -- while all the other cops were out of
breath chasing this guy uphill -- the other officer was there waiting for
him -- drawing down with a shotgun!
This was our first ever attempted bank robbery in Converse. It seems this guy is a suspect in two other bank robberies that occured last week! |
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Location: NJ | The city was founded in 1961??
What'd the founder's Edsel break down on his way to Vegas? |
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| surely the other 2 were attempted robberies? I can't believe he got away with any.
Another true cop story. About 10 or so years ago a traffic cop was on duty on the A140 in Norfolk with a hand held radar gun. The road was quiet and as he stood there an F14 flew in towards him about to land at Lakenheath US airbase. It was returning, fully nuked up, after patrolling over the Russian borders. I wonder how fast that's going thought the cop, so he pointed his gun at the plane. The minute those things detect radar beaming at them without the friendly code they automatically arm the missiles and lock on to the radar source. The pilot was minding his own business thinking about hitting the sack when the cockpit lit up and he found himself about to obliterate one of her majesty's constables and a large piece of Norfolk. He managed to override in time. The following morning new instructions were issued to all the local cops. |
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Location: NJ | Now THAT'S f&^%#g FUNNY!!! :D |
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| It came from a police magazine, so I figure it really is true. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Hizz, that is good! I swear I saw it on an episode of "Duke's" though! Some Gene Pools don't have Lifeguards! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | The city was founded in 1961??
What'd the founder's Edsel break down on his way to Vegas? We've "been around" since 1877. We were officially incorporated in 1961.
And the other two incidences he actually WAS able to rob the banks. They are smaller cities than Converse! :D |
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| But I wouldn't want to be an Honorary Citizen of them. :) |
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Location: Powder Springs, Ga. | That's absolutely amazing...your High School gets out at 2:15? |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Schroeder, I like your story but I would have think it likely to fall into the Urban Myth category. There are so many coordinating things that would have to happen that I would think it unlikely to happen as described. The radar signatures would have to approximate a threat signal, frequencies would have to be in the threat range. And the aircraft would have to be landing in 'friendly' territory with its ordinance armed. There're probably others around here that know way more than I. But the idea of a traffic cop providing a homing beacon for a smart bomb is prett amusing. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Hizz,
A friend of mine that works in law enforcement once told me that the biggest saving grace in our society is that criminals tend to be pretty dumb. If nothing else, this is reflected in their career choice. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Schroeder
On my work travels up to Norfolk, a guy rang me on the mobile just as I was passing Lakenheath, So I pulled into the layby just by the end of the runway. It is fenced off and a fair distance from the road. So I was talking on the phone and,suddenly, all hell broke loose, when an F 14 took off just over the top of my car (well it felt like it was really close). The guy on the end of the phone asked what the hell was that noise and I explained where I was parked. I suspect the cop was in the same layby.
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| Well???? How fast was that Jet going? |
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| He was too busy changing his shorts to notice. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | That's absolutely amazing...your High School gets out at 2:15? It starts at 7 a.m. |
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Location: NJ | . . . it gives the students ample time to pick up their kids at DayCare . . . |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Um cliff... there is a DayCare right across the street for that purpose... sad to say. |
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Location: NJ | . . . swish! . . . nuthin' but NET!!!! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | LOL!!Now you two behave!!!I've got to clean up my Diet Coke Now! |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | I told my that second-cousin to lay off the banks in Converse....
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| Chatman - thinking back I figure this was actually 20 years ago. We were living in the area at the time and it was the Reagan/Thatcher years. There were no smart bombs and that whoile friendly/enemy radar thing was in its infancy. And I did read it from a magazine called The Inspector which is a cop comic for police of that rank and above (approx your lieutenants)
Piers - we used to live there and the real ball-breakers were the A10 tankbusters which used to use cars on minor roads for target practice. You would be tootling along and suddenly this black shape would rise up over the horizon and come straight at you about 100 feet above your head. The other great joy of living ther4e was the fact that yankee airmen used to get their cars airlifted over from the states and then sell them for big bucks in England when their tour was over. You would be driving down a narrow Norfolk road to be greeted by a 15 foot wide caddy coming the other way. Gosh we loved Americans.
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Location: Florida | We had a good one here a few days ago.
Idiot lowlife snatches a ladies purse in front of Broward County Courthouse, runs away, and runs right into a concrete post and knocks himself out.
Making things a bit of a bad day, paramedics get their truck total'd in an accident with the lumpy headed crook in the back. Paramedics got out. I think they left the crook in the rescue truck, strapped down. It was on its side.....
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Location: NJ | Schroed;
Maybe it woulda' helped if you guys'd just drive on the right goddam side of the ROAD! . . . . :) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I have a great photo for this thread with no way to post it, as the OFC gallery will NOT let me. |
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| Maybe it woulda' helped if you guys'd just drive on the right goddam side of the ROAD! . . . .
That would be the left. |
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Location: NJ | right. |
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| Charlie B
Now the sad truth is that Crook can suit the city for the concrete post and the damage it caused his person! And he can also suit the Ambulance company Too! Too bad the Ambulamce didn't just burn up??????
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Location: NJ | I have some cop stories but the memories are too painful |
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Location: East Tennessee | Hizzoner,
Does the "alleged", (Trying to be politically Correct) Bank Robber by any chance play a Taylor Guitar? :D |
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Location: Converse, Texas | :D |
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Location: Georgia USA | If you liked Zonner's story, check this one out...
There was a car wreck on a busy highway, and one of the drivers suffered a severed arm. Another car pulls up behind and someone jumps out, grabs the arm, and speeds away. He was later caught by the fuzz and charged with...
arm robbery!
PS... I am truly sorry to anyone who took the time to read that. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Here's the story from the Express-News.
Bad Day at the Bank |
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| I had to log in and give them personal details I wouldn't give my wife - and when I searched Converse they had no knowledge of you. When I googled you a few weeks ago all I got was the ex-services site. Are you absolutely sure that Converse exists? Am I in line to become an Honorary Citizen of a ghost town? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Converse is a state of mind... |
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Location: Converse, Texas | IT EXISTS. CLICK HERE
Here's the story:
Masked man has bad day at bank
Web Posted: 04/09/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Vianna Davila
Express-News Staff Writer
Hugh Douglas Dentler's bad day began when he arrived at a Converse bank wearing a black mask and discovered the building's doors were bolted shut by a security system.
But the day only got worse when bank employees — who saw a man in the black mask trying to open the door — refused to buzz him inside.
They watched a frustrated Dentler walk off and climb into a pickup, in full view of a security camera.
The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. Monday at the TexStar Bank on the 9100 block of FM 78.
Dentler's crumbling luck continued when Converse police officers arrived at the bank and he fled, driving into an area teeming with police officers in the middle of a shift change and patrolling nearby Judson High School.
Things went even further south when Dentler turned into a dead end.
His hopes for escape ended completely when he abandoned the pickup, ran through the woods into a new subdivision — and came face to face with an officer.
"There were officers at Judson High School, there were officers behind him, there were officers in front of him," said Converse Lt. Allen James.
"He picked the worst time of the day to do it."
And now the FBI is on the case, trying to determine if Dentler is tied to four robberies in and around San Antonio.
Dentler, 40, is being held without bail on a federal charge of attempted bank robbery, said Gary Brown, assistant chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Office in San Antonio.
He also faces two state charges, for attempted robbery and evading arrest.
Among the bank robberies that authorities are trying to link him to include a successful holdup at the Guaranty Bank in Windcrest on March 25 by a man wearing a black stocking over his head and carrying a beige purse, according to Windcrest Police Chief Lori Harris.
In each of the other robberies, the suspect wore a black mask that looked like a woman's stocking and carried a black handgun.
However, investigators didn't find a weapon in the Converse incident. Dentler never showed a weapon at the bank, James said.
Police Chief Rick Jamison said the incident was the closest thing to a Converse bank robbery in his 26-year career.
"This was downhill from the start for him," James added. |
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