# Working for a... robbery? (Dumb? crooks)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 1, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705 "2002-05-01T18:20:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705/1 "2002-05-01T18:20:20Z")
Oookay… this was too odd not to share: a pair of theives weren’t satisfied with what was in the till, so they **worked** to earn more money to steal!
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/01/starbucks.thieves.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/01/starbucks.thieves.ap/index.html)
Points for initiative, but now they have all those potential witnesses to pick them out in a line up, so minus points for that.
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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705/2 "2002-05-01T19:19:21Z")
Someone called into KMTT radio this morning and said that the robbers were former employees…
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### Author:  [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705/3 "2002-05-02T00:03:09Z")
Former employees, eh? That puts another twist on things. I mean, wouldn’t they then know better what time of day to hit the place? Stranger and stranger…
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-for-a-robbery-dumb-crooks/106705/4 "2002-05-02T00:09:20Z")
It was just on the news, the couple was arrested.