# Is bank robbing slowly dying out?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bank-robbing-slowly-dying-out/630382 "2012-08-04T03:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bank-robbing-slowly-dying-out/630382/41 "2012-08-07T21:42:11Z")

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Well, if that is your definition, then bank robbery ended with the invention of vault doors that had time-delayed locks.  
That was quite some time ago.

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bank-robbing-slowly-dying-out/630382/42 "2012-08-07T21:44:00Z")

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Only the dumb robbers try to physically take the cash from the bank these days. The clever ones can siphon millions of dollars from a bank in New York from thousands of miles away in Russia in the blink of an eye. Times have changed and the art of bank robbery has changed with them.

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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bank-robbing-slowly-dying-out/630382/43 "2012-08-07T21:45:08Z")

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> [@Mr.Slant](#):
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> Well, if that is your definition, then bank robbery ended with the invention of vault doors that had time-delayed locks.  
> That was quite some time ago.

When was that? And crucially, did any of the celebrated big-time bank robbers post-date that invention?

(Most recent big-time bank-robber I can remember was Willie Sutton.)

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