World of the Bizarre

Bank robber fails due to his own bad handwriting

By T.K. Randall
August 16, 2021

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) The bizarre incident saw 67-year-old Alan Slattery walk into a branch of the Nationwide Building Society in Eastbourne, Sussex earlier this year and hand a note to one of the employees.

In handwriting that could be considered difficult to decipher at best, it read:

"Your screen won't stop what I've got, just hand over the 10s and the 20s.

Think about the other customers."Unable to make sense of the note, however, the employee wouldn't co-operate and the man ultimately ended up leaving the building empty-handed.

He struck a further two times - once at a Nationwide branch in St. Leonards and again at a NatWest branch in Hastings. Only in one instance did he actually make off with any money.

He was later apprehended by police after being identified from security footage.

He has since been sentenced to six years in prison.

A man has been sentenced after using threatening handwritten notes to demand money from cashiers at three banks in #Eastbourne and #Hastings.

He was twice unsuccessful, in one case because the bank employee couldn't read his handwriting.

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— Sussex Police (@sussex_police) August 13, 2021

Source: Huffington Post

Tags: Robbery