Addicted To Robbing Banks (2004)
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- In the Firing Line: Guns, drugs and cash. Welcome to the world of high-powered bank robberies. But what pushes someone to risk everything to rob a bank?
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Guns, drugs and cash. Welcome to the world of high-powered bank robberies. But what pushes someone to risk everything to rob a bank? In this probing and character-led documentary, several convicted robbers candidly discuss their crimes. Why is bank robbing so addictive? We also hear from those at the other side of the gun, left traumatised and scarred. Made for ABC Australia s renowned Four Corners Strand, this is a disturbing insight into the human cost of bank robberies.
I didn t have to say a word, just walked in there with a shotgun. People didn t assume I was looking for a home loan, boasts convicted bank robber Anthony. It s like your own little Wild West and you re running the joint, The thrill of power, along with the promise of lots of cash, has proven irresistible time and again for bank robbers. However, for the victims of their crimes, the trauma refuses to go away.
Pam is one such victim. She was a senior bank employee whose life and career were turned upside down after she was brutally attacked in a robbery. One of them had a gun, one had iron bars, one had a hunting knife. So it wasn t the type of thing you could really argue with, she murmurs. When Pam delayed handing over the keys to the safe, she was physically assaulted. He hit me from behind and pushed me into a metal door, she recalls. She was left with a slipped disc and still suffers from back spasms today.
Pam s distress was further compounded by the callous attitude of her employers. On returning to work, she was told she would be demoted, despite 25 years of loyal service. I was basically asked to sign documentation to reduce my position from a managerial status to a clerk, she explains. Unsettlingly, her case seems typical. Far from helping traumatised workers like Pam, banks often demote or dismiss them.
However, victims can at least expect sympathy from one unlikely source. Anthony, a born-again Christian, once committed 4 armed robberies in 16 days. He was arrested when his mother recognised him on the local news and turned him in. Now only the dense web of tattoos along his limbs points to his murky past. He is contrite and ashamed, adamant that he will repay his victims, even if, as he calculates, it will take him until he is 93. I fully understand everyone in those banks hating me, he admits.
Unfortunately, most robbers are not as repentant. Some are startlingly flippant about the emotional damage they have caused. They ll tell you anything that they can t go to a counter any more because they ve got some sort of phobia that they ve created that s absolute bullshit. All they re trying to do is jump on the gravy train, an anonymous robber remarks. His words jar nastily with Pam s palpable distress.
Worryingly, bank robberies seem to be becoming more violent and unpredictable. Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs and adrenaline, the robbers are oblivious to their victims pleas. You re in the car, you have a shot. Throw the needle on the floor, go in, produce your gun. Mate that s the biggest adrenaline buzz ever. It s better than bungee jumping, enthuses an anonymous robber. And until the banks can fork out to provide better security, their own employees will continue to pay the price.
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I think you'll find the most successful bank robbers wear suits.
If the bank expected me to carry a gun and defend their money, we'll be discussing a considerably different pay scale.
You got that shit right
And you prob would of shot 10 people already. Roflmdo
Is it just me, or are the robbers so much nicer people than the banker association's representative?
phileas007 just a different breed. they live it and have no regrets.
always
phileas007 criminals are not bad people it's just impossible for someone like me to get a good job and it's either resort to bring a criminal or be homeless
Rika Bakachan yeah, you can't get a job because you spend all of your time and energy engaging in criminal activity. And you are a bad person if you think it's acceptable to steal from society.
@@yousnortthedsnotofdirtyric3382 well put
I respect the Robbers more than I respect any bank
Baka Baka Khan same
For real
Baka Baka Khan lol
eric kelly you’re either probably too young or too entitled to understand
Same. Be cool to rob a bank and get away with it.
The banks are worse than the robbers. In my country we have laws protecting the employees, and the banks are doing all they can to help thier employees, in the event of a robbery.
ok boomer
R.I.P. BERNIE MATTHEWS
WHAT AN INSPIRATIONAL LIFE. YOU WERE EVEN SUMMED UP BY YOUR ARCH-NEMESIS WITH THE UTMOST OF RESPECT. YOUR INTERVIEWS WITH GARY JUBELINE ARE OUTSTANDING.
These days to be a successful bank robber you have to work on the other side of the counter, and like, a few floors up!
Working with a Heroin habit in a bank, yeah, I robbed my bank on a daily basis.
Can't give a straight answer what a banker
I remember, working as a bank teller for the Rural Bank of NSW Kings Cross Branch, 1977 all of 18 years of age. Me and the Loans Officer, being Kings Cross, we would have to transfer foreign currency down to Head Office when the total of Foreign currency got to a certain limit. One day in particular I remember, being young, and first time living away from my parents, on this particular day I did not wear any underpants to work. Here am I, with Dave, the loans officer to do a transfer down to Head office. I was given, what I now know was a revolver, which I shoved down my underpantless pants, walked up to the Taxi Rank in Darlo rd., (The branch at that time was at the top of William St.) the loans officer had a leather satchel with the Foreign currency and I was his back up. Hehe, we both both got cabs. I got into the one behind the Loans Officer, and I stated in my best James Bond voice, "Follow that Cab." What a lark. We walked back from "down town" as we could pocket the $2.60 taxi fare at the time. I remember having one session learning how to shoot, and the gun being beside me whilst serving customers. It's all a bit of a haze as it was the time of Terrance Clark and the Heroin epidemic, and as a young country boy with self esteem issues, I soon developed a habit. Never scored at the Cross at the time, used to rush down to Bronte in my lunch time in my newly acquired, bank loaned, 1975 VW Bug, L. Get back to the bank, have a taste in the toilet and back to serving all sorts. Yeah, I survived, prospered, survived, prospered, many times. Clean now for a decade and a half, with such gratitude to have done so and to have the memories, and to have met those that I have met. .
Lovely mother. Very sweet lady. HONEST
This must be an old video. All crime has since been eliminated in Australia. That's why they don't need firearms anymore.
your joking right ? thats why our jails are full lol
😂😂😂😂
Not eliminated. The game has changed with different rules
I remember some of my robberies in the 70s and 80s . I never seen any bank workers with guns, But i did come across armed guards with pistols but we use to take their guns as a added bonus. The 80s were the most robberies mostly done by drug addicts . Some would do ten in a month . They would be out of jail 3 months and do 30 banks.
The Australian CEO didn't aware staff have firearm. Unbelievable. He seemed to don't know a lot of things and yet he is the CEO.
ik that pissed me off, he was acting like he didnt know theres no way you can be a CEO and not know that
US AUSSIED WE LOVE A GOOD ROBBER
love em or hate them they sure got big balls
Fair play Bernie like your style as much as it's possible to ,at least you didn't harm the poor bank staff .
It’s like a drug. Do it once you’re hooked.
It's not the money Dan It's the buzz of adrenalin .... 👍🇦🇺
@@philhudson...5017 I understand because I was hooked on stealing cars back in the 90s. It gave me a rush
@@danrobinson572 south Melbourne..??? Lol...
@@philhudson...5017 American 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
@@danrobinson572Dan I've seen your comments on pendrige with Adrian and the guys.. 👍👍🇦🇺
Bank + desperate people = robbery
Exactly .
I really like the guy talking about bungee jumping.
Lawful person: works for years for bank, gets robbed, loses position and is demoted back to clerk.
Unlawful person: robs banks, makes money, repents his ways.
Message seems to be through off your social conditioning and en masse rob banks, then plead forgiveness.
What about the dyslexic bank robber , he ran in and said AIR IN THE HANDS FUDDER MUCKERS THIS IS A FUCK UP !!! 😆
Dats funny as f😂
See if Russ Chandler - banking security consultant & part-time jockey - still feels the same way after some robber has a loaded shotgun in his face 😄😄😄
These guys have balls.
So much for loyalty, again I am more disgusted with the banking industry then the robbers,to not support their staff post robbery shows how inhumain the banks really are they aren't worth pissing if they were on fire.
Get on the floor mole. Classic Australia
More like " Get on the fuck`en floor mole "
Get on tha floor ya slapper
there you have one slime ball banker would not answer one question...
bank robbers are the funniest people you meet & robbing banks is a funny job ever
That David Bell fella saying absolutely nothing. He's worse than a politician.
ahahahahha same thing i said
On his best day he passed a note and didn’t nod off
Makes me feel better about being addicted to PCP!
GET WET!!
What about ICE??
J Starr5 damn that no joke
11:50 Mr.Burns.
As people have more and more not much or nothing to lose ,these events will be rife .
6:10 “we will protect her identity “ well judging from that shadow she’s a pelican who spits and talks like daffy duck
Robbing banks was addictive . I never hurt anyone. But a lot older now i understand the trauma and hurt i caused. It was a very bad lifestyle one i wish i never took up. It is a putrid life nothing to glorify , You have no respect for stolen money because you did not earn it . I would spend tens of thousands every week and just go get more. Now i work hard for years and i respect the thousand a week i earn
what happen to the steel bars they use to have on the bank counters (and train stations). Robbers can jump the counter. there should be a double door that the robber can be trapped between them; obviously bullet proof glass.
Insurance
dose he put the fear of god into people with that hair cut
Gang land am loving with the dealing 😍
One of best related oz films Great Bookie Robbery,
Would love to know the song playing in the end credits. Shazam couldn’t pick it up.
I like the robbers. I dislike the banks, they get everything they deserve, especially the ANZ. And why would you want to work for them, represent them, especially in higher rolls like manager? Do they not have a conscience? Maybe they also deserve some of the trauma and violence inflicted on them. After all, they have heard of bank robbers so must understand the risks. Risk is what banks work on, it is part of their expertise. Banks are aggressive and ruin people's and families lives without batting an eyelid. The ANZ knowingly transferred finances for a global child sex slave syndicate with no repercussions.
I knew a bank manager, and she would party on the weekend and get off her tits on ecstasy only to walk in on a Monday and approve loans and handle people's finances. Some bank workers deserve the treatment.
So the drug addicted criminals are justified in terrifying average people who work in banks? These scumbags aren’t Robin Hood. And it’s not the bank staffs fault people can’t read the fine print.
The Representative of the bankers association should resign on the basis of being unfit for duty.
Agree
The best bank robberies happened right here in Perth, other than Hakki Attahan
They use music from Taxi?
An Organic Intellectual 😆
10:47 A wee bug on his shoulder XD
Rob a bank get 5/10 years rob a post office get 15/20 years
Because on is a state crime the post office is a federal crime. At least here in America.
bank are robbers to,,,,robbers,,rob the robbers,,is karma
Tension release type thing like gambling.
lol these guys are mad real
+1989rbrown Yes they are, but the ones in the boardroom are the bigger criminals. If you rob 100.000 they put you in jail, if you steal 1.000.000 they hire you and over 10.000.000 they make you a board-member or even C.E.O
@@marconius101 thats not how it works...
pretty sure most companies dont hire criminals OR MAKE THEM THEIR GOD DAMN CEO
@@lpscottoncandylollipopswee2088 actually my friend that’s exactly how it works LMAO
Absolutely despicable behaviour
I totally agree those banks are absolutely despicable 🤣 gotta love those robbers though 💰
This goofball Bank representative is narcissism at its finest definition of it almost I mean he won't even answer a hypothetical question even a hypothetical question he won't answer
Is Carl gugasian in this documentary? I’m assuming he’s not cause he got locked up in 2002 but it would be interesting hear from him after doing robberies for 30 years
David Bell is one slow customer
lol i can't remember when a bank was robbed in australia
That Toni guy who said he was unchallenged is because when you've got a haircut like that u don't need a gun 😂 people didn't assume I was looking for a home loan 😅
The old Winnie reds lad.
wonder if this guy works in the oil and gas indust.
Old school bank robbers are some of the most respected crims.
3:15 the taxi driver theme song
PAYDAY 2 on Loud.
Xbox one Add me my Gamertag is A5239CW that's also my prison number :D
An armed robber judging an addict really. Baw heed would make a great politician.
My fiance was sitting around with a group of guys drinking and b.s'n and there was this guy who started piping up "I'm a bank robber. I Rob banks." My fiance knew about him and says "You robbed a bank in a taxi and had him drop you off at the dope house WHERE THE COPS PICKED YOU UP DUMBASS!!!😂😂😂
BANKS DONT CARE and THAT SPOKES PERSON CARES EVEN LESS
This is all wrong...walk into a bank with only a note, no guns, no shouting, no pushing people around, dont jump the counter and dont touch ANYONE, walk in, hand the teller the note and walk out, that's it
NO. FUCKING. WAY!!! TONY STEPHENS.
I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM AROUND THE TRAPS IN AGES NOW. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT WHEN I SAW HIM IN THIS SHOW.
Too bad he got caught. Do better next job fellas. Take more too. Take it all.
David 'no balls' Bell...
Sickening the way the banks in Australia act, disgraceful and even morally criminal. This Bankers Association is a politically correct weasel in every sense of the word. Would not trust him to look after my dog.
North hollywood
that David Bell guy is so annoying doesnt even answer the questions properly
Suddenly everyone in the comments is a bank expert.
Noobs, they cant even escape 3 stars and they cant even respawn...
@6:46 because you resist his demand...
Wherever money's involved and the rich behind it youl get this kind of treatment ,as we know the rich only care about one thing .
36mins in proud of the interviewer she proper grilled that prick
You know how many TNS I would bye buva
Play GTA these bank tellers will learn to listen. All you gotta do is hand over the money. Righhttt lol...
28:10 minutes into video = A mother always loves her Son.
She put him in Jail.
Lol
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11:48 mans be mega mind
What's the football shirt mate who's colours 🇬🇧
You mean big banks and corporations don't care about the employees? Nooooo say it's not true
@11:45 Bernie climbed down off the counter and spooned him
Nigga was robbing banks with a 22🤣bruh this nigga gots balls
I use to be a banker, the worst job not worth it at all.
I thought guns were illegal in Australia
Wait! How can this possibly be happening in Australia? How can there possibly be ANY "armed" crimes?? I thought the Australian government took everyone's guns away.
Is crack, cocaine, meth or heroin legal in your country? If not how do they have it.
@@hayden6056 You mean criminals actually BREAK laws?? Gee, ya don't say.
Incorrect, guns laws were simply tightened.There are literally millions of registered firearms in Australia and hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons floating around
The cardinal rule of a bank robber NOT to hurt anyone is a contradiction in terms,considering that the bank employees who fall victim to these callous acts,are usually left hurting "mentally" for the rest of their lives! 😨🔫
Junk
It’s nothing personal.
4:05 big brain
Angus Blair lol
Moon man.
@ 2.00 ugh!
They rob me to they just take it
David Bell has a head on him
get on the fucking ground
One of the most outrageous (even worse than the robbers) is this oinker David Bell, who conveniently doesn't know anytbing or will answer anything about the ethics of banks vamping down on the victims of robberies. "They (the victims) should speak to their bank..." 36:17 and : "It is very difficult..." - 36:35. What a sociopath. Of course, it is "very difficult to answer that question", because he is totally bereft of any moral compass. Then, like all these foul banksters, he lies about things: 3:57 and 36:53. He belongs in a labor camp where he could do something useful for once in his parasitic low life.
Overall, there should bve no private banks. Either they should be nationalized or in the form of cooperatives, full stop.
That egg head fella..is COLD..scary lier
Lucky dog gets dinasaor bone 😂
FREE BRENDAN ABBOTT!
Nobody move. .This is a stick-up. . I can think of a lot worse things to be addicted to. .
Don't know how things work in Australia regarding procedures during a bank robbery. But if robberies are being conducted by druggies, most probably meth, i can bet that they would not think twice on killing a patron wanting to be a hero. That is the worse thing you can do. At least in America, money is insured by FDIC. Even If I am armed, which most times I am, I will do whatever I am instructed to do by the robbers. I will not be responsible for the murder of an innocent person or worker. I have been to Australia, I walked into a bank on several occasions. This was in the 2010's I don't recall seeing a guard. Handguns are not easy to come by, however rifles and shotguns are available in regional areas to put down kangaroos or emus since they are consider a pest in agricultural industry. Violence is necessary to keep people in check, do what there are there to do, in and out.
It's the same in Australia - your money is insured.
Regarding guns, rifles and shotguns are available to your average person here, whether they live in rural or metropolitan areas. Handguns are also legal, though they're signicantly harder to acquire (six months minimum application period). But they're not overally uncommon; there's about 250 thousand handguns in legal, private possession in the country, and who knows how many illegal ones. I've been around the block, including prison, and handguns aren't too hard to come by. They're more expensive (so I've been told) than they were in years gone by, but not too difficult to acquire if you have a few grand to throw around.
@@lh7325 When I went to OZ, out in Perth.. when I looked out the window, it look like we were flying over Mars. But my buds there, most had served in the Navy or army. Ever sine that retard went in a shooting in Tas, the fucking gov made it very hard to acquire, and it must be kept in an approved safe. If you use it dunning . a home invasion, you can't use it, if you kill, you may go to jail, shit even a shot in the foot. You are liable for his fucking care. I chatted with a bloke that played rugby, and got a bad injury that stopped him from playing. The fucking health dep has but a vice grip on all meds with opiods in them. He is in constant pain but his GP can't give him more or he will loose his lisence. That is fucked in my eyes.