Modern day John Dillenger foiled by new economy

[DJofSD]

The bank had no money. The story here. (http://www.thelocal.se/20130422/47484?PageSpeed=noscript)

[Actor]

The bank had no money. The story here. (http://www.thelocal.se/20130422/47484?PageSpeed=noscript)
This does not surprise me at all. Banks may cash a few checks and take in a few cash deposits but, for the most part, they just do bookkeeping. I doubt that there's more than $10,000 at any branch at any time. That may seem a tidy sum to a desperate man but not worth the risk to life, limb and freedom. Parker would never go for it today.

[Tom]

Oh, an M&T Bank, huh?

[thaskalos]

What kind of world is this we are living in, where the banks have no money? What's a self-respecting bank robber to do?

[therussmeister]

I read of a Scandinavian country, forget which one, where so few people carry cash that the government issued credit card acceptors to the homeless to facilitate begging.