# Banks should be on the look-out for "people who normally don't come into banks" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621 "2002-04-20T02:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/21 "2002-04-20T21:18:48Z")
Movie stars, miserly hermits, bookies… ---
**Author:** ![shmigheghi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@shmigheghi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shmigheghi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/22 "2002-04-20T21:19:24Z")
## quote: What kind of individual “doesn’t normally come into banks”? * * * Civil War vets, spazzes, Jeffrey Skilling, dogs… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/23 "2002-04-20T21:42:30Z")
**Coldfire** -what the HELL were you thinking? Dammit, you’re in trouble, young man! ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/24 "2002-04-20T21:57:04Z")
When I first glanced at the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be a rant along the lines of “I don’t normally go into my friendly neighborhood bank, but today I had to, and I must say that the staff weren’t helpful to me at all! They expected me to know all the little banking procedures! What’s up with that?” However, I have to agree that the profile as described is a clumsy way to warn against the Al-Qaeda terrorists. > [@](#): > > What kind of individual “doesn’t normally come into banks”? Oh, y’know… the undead, famous musicians, the Queen and assorted members of her family, little talking babies that have a personal wealth estimated at $1 billion, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/25 "2002-04-20T22:43:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > **What kind of individual “doesn’t normally come into banks”?** Survivalists, Bill Gates, people who live in primitive tribes in the Amazon rainforest, vampires… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/26 "2002-04-20T23:07:58Z")
…clowns, mermaids, unicorns (visible or otherwise), cartoon characters, human torches, evil dictators, talking animals, wizards and so on. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/27 "2002-04-20T23:21:23Z")
…homosexual New Democratic freaks - no, that’s not true, I use the bank from time to time… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/28 "2002-04-20T23:33:26Z")
To nitpick vampires often use banks. They need them to keep their vast wealth acumulated over many human lifetimes somewhere after all. On the other hand zombies and ghouls are too low class to use a bank. To combat that threat banks should make everyone entering have some salty crackers. Take that you damn terrorist necromancers and your unholy zombie servants! ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/29 "2002-04-21T02:00:42Z")
Ever since I signed up for on-line banking, I don’t normally go into banks, so watch out for me! ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/30 "2002-04-21T03:51:40Z")
…monks, superheroes, servicemen on active duty overseas, JeffB… ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/31 "2002-04-21T04:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > But is that really a concern? I haven’t stepped foot inside of a bank in years. Sheri So, we now know who are these suspect people “who normally don’t come into banks” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/32 "2002-04-21T04:23:10Z")
…Yog-Sothoth, people named ‘Flexoral’, the late Vincent Price, ducks… ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/33 "2002-04-21T07:13:09Z")
Ducks?? 😃 Oh, and superheroes do so go into banks: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker etc, in their ‘normal Joe’ identities, have to save and spend money just like the rest of us, one would presume. But yeah, that is a silly way to profile would-be bombers. –Nenya, who only sometimes goes into banks, and never in New York City ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/34 "2002-04-21T12:18:13Z")
The prime suspect, then, for a terrorist attack against the BBQ Pit, based on the profile of people who don’t normally come in here, is Cecil Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/35 "2002-04-21T20:58:07Z")
…midgets over six feet tall, fictional literary characters, Jesus Christ, foreign heads of state, elves and faeries, pirates, Mesopotamians, monks who’ve taken vows of poverty, mole men… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/36 "2002-04-21T22:19:42Z")
…muppets, Sumerian nobles, men dressed as sheep, Wile E. Coyote, aliens from Area 51, graduates of Miskatonic University, silverback mountain gorillas, Lord Crumb, The Beatles… ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/37 "2002-04-21T22:34:55Z")
…Ivan Renko, Sidd Finch, the Donner Party, Whigs… ---
**Author:** ![MercuryPenguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MercuryPenguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercuryPenguin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/38 "2002-04-22T00:09:29Z")
… roundheads, cavaliers, crusaders, gilded age presidents, Mark Twain, enchanted furniture, deep blue… ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/39 "2002-04-22T00:52:36Z")
I saw an **MEBuckner** op in the pit and dived right in hoping for another gem like the Kathleen Parker rant. I got a soda, and a towel for when I spit it all over the place laughing at the idiocy reveled in graphic terms by the rant. I made popcorn and everything. I feel so let down. Whenever I need cheering up I have a copy of that Parker post saved for theraputic use. I am usually in a better mood within 30 seconds and thinking of my co-workers as having a “throbbing pustule for a brain” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621/40 "2002-04-22T01:24:21Z")
Hey, c’mon. Kathleen Paker really, _really_ pissed me off. I was just sort of mildly peeved over this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banks-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-people-who-normally-dont-come-into-banks/104621.md?page=3)