Word: stickups
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...came last week from the Fortune Society, a New York-based self-help group of former convicts. Distressed that politicians never ask ex-cons "about what deterred us and what did not," the society's monthly newsletter reported that "those of us who were small-time pushers, thieves, stickup artists, recall that we were too busy fighting to survive on the streets to be deterred by legislation. When we were committing crimes, we did not think about getting caught...
...been assigned to guard the Jordanian embassy last week, London Constable Peter Slimon did something most unusual for a bobby: he armed himself. En route to the embassy he encountered a bank stickup and pulled his revolver. In the ensuing gunfight one of the bandits wounded Slimon-but not before the bobby had killed one of the robbers...
...murder, telling of a 100-m.p.h. chase after a white Mustang thought to be driven by Ray, proved to be not the work of confederates but of a teenage prankster. There is no real mystery about Ray's source of cash either: he was a professional stickup man. It was his character, both erratic and highly methodical, that gave him the look of a man following directions. Pursuing Frank's arguments the reader comes to the conviction that there was no conspiracy...
Saturday-night muggings in Times Square are as routine as the traffic, but one recent stickup had a certain piquancy. Two gunmen knocked over a movie theater, shot the manager in the arm and made off with $13,000. The theater happened to be showing The Godfather. A mad publicity stunt? Retribution by the Mafia? More likely it was ironic coincidence-and ill-planned as well. At the rate The Godfather is packing them in, the $13,000 loot would just about account for the weekend popcorn sales...
...typical stickup man is not a romantic pro but a debt-pressed amateur who works alone. He has become such a nuisance that it hardly pays the banks to buy insurance. The insurers have raised prices so much lately that they are well above the $2,300 taken in an average robbery. Nervous bankers are finding that the best policy is to buy more advanced protective equipment. As a result, the bank equipment suppliers are rushing to keep pace with demand...