You would definitely get away, there would never be any ramifications ever.
But, you would have to use a loaded gun.
You would possibly traumatize someone or many people for the rest of their lives by brandishing the weapon at them and just the whole deal of being held up. So you’d have t live with that.
There is no guarantee of how much you’d get. BUt lets say it’s anywhere from a million all the way down to just 500 bucks.
Knowing this, would you still do it?
Edited to add, I missed the w" in the word “would” in the title. Can someone please fix it for me? Thanks
Shoot, I personally know someone who robbed a bank for a lot less than a million dollars. He also got more than $500. If the requirement was that I had to wave my gun around aimlessly, then I would say, no. But if I could do like most robbers and state that I had a gun and get away free, hell yeah, I would try it. Most cashiers are trained to handle the dissemination of cash as a business transaction, and let the cops handle the rest.
No. I can earn enough money to live quite comfortably without waving a gun at anyone, thank you kindly. Further - a million bucks just isn’t that much cash. I have friends who expect to make that within ten-fifteen years of leaving law school - and they’re right to do so.
That said - if there were a lot of money, enough to finance a big project (send mercenaries to shoot at the Janjaweed? Nationwide “DC Statehood Now!” campaign? whatever), I’d be sorely tempted.
Simply no. Not for any reason, not for any reward.
The money belongs to other people. Even if it’s a corporation, the money is owned by the shareholders, and/or the shareholders of the insurance company that would have to cough up to cover what you stole.
Let me use that word again: stole. You would steal money.
Let’s ask a different question:
If you could get away scot-free with stealing $10 each from 10,000 households in your city, would you do it?
As a person who is actively involved in the construction of banks, I can say with a high degree of confidence that there is negligible profit and massive risk associated with bank robbery at this point. Layer upon layer upon layer of security measures, to the point where you’d be way better off knocking over a 7-11 than a bank, both in terms of risk and potential profit.
I if were guaranteed to be able to get away with it, I still wouldn’t, because the payoff wouldn’t be nearly enough to assuage my guilt for doing the deed, particularly if someone had to get physically or mentally harmed in the robbery.
Well, the OP says you’d definitely get away with it so I presume no jail time and no physical abuse from anyone stupid enough to argue with a loaded gun. I’d do it in a heart beat without worrying in the least about traumatizing anyone.
No, I would not. Other people worked to earn the money stored in the bank, everyday people who might not be able to make their bills. However, I might be seriously tempted to take a large amount of money from a rich heir (in other words, they didn’t earn the money) n’er do well type, (as in, they don’t believe in noblesse oblige, they are the sort that believes the world is for their entertainment, they bully and take their way through life) if it were only them, I wouldn’t get caught ever. I still probably wouldn’t do it, unless that money went for some charitable cause, and it wouldn’t get the charity into trouble either.
