Ideally, the pack of dye that a bank teller slips into a robber's money bag explodes while the robber is in midflight, sending up an eye-catching puff of red smoke.
For the next hour and a half, Mr. Moore, blindfolded, listened while the robber ransacked his home, stealing a collection of 70 rifles and pistols, coins, cash, and silver and gold bullion worth about $60,000.
Does it really make fiscal--or moral--sense to persecute pot smokers and squander billions to incarcerate marijuana merchants while the robber barons of Wall Street remain free to fleece us all?
While two of the robbers stood guard outside, he said, five others entered the store, and four threatened the employees with revolvers.
While four of the robbers were never caught, one of the men convicted, Bill Boal, was not actually involved in the robbery at all.
While three of the robbers are subdued after a fight, one manages to make his escape via a window and ends up on the roof.
As one preschool teacher I know explains to her students (while they nod knowingly): "The robbers aren't mean.
And it is she who does most of the pushing and coaxing of her pet to return to the hideaway of the robbers, while the F.B.I. lads rally round with their paw-printing gear and walkie-talkies to tail the cat scientifically.
"We will press charges of negligence, recklessness and malpractice by the military police while conducting the chase of the robbers and the civic police, who were then involved in dealing with the aftermath of the crash.
