Exactly like simulord said. Just act like you've got one. Banks care more about their customers and employees than the easily-replaced money stolen from an easily caught criminal.
How would you rob a bank without using guns
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So, this would take a long time, but here's what I'd do (It's gonna sound messed up): I would burn a ton of marijuana in one of the air ducts in the bank, and as everyone inside gets high, I would come in, and shout, "I have a gun! Nobody move!" And they would all think I had a gun. Then when I have my money, I'd run 2 blocks to a snowmobile I had cleverly hidden in a bush, and use it to cruise away, while the cops think I just vanished. They can't catch you if you're on a snowmobile. 
Hold on, rob a BANK? Bank as in place that I go to drop my checks off and have never withdrawn a single damn note, bill or hard cash from in my life?
This is the 21st century, banks just aren't the same as the wild west, prohibition era or even the 90's as with HEAT.
No body robs banks any more as that is not where the money is kept. I mean who deposits cash in a bank any more? Cheques maybe, apply for loans, but there is hardly any money in banks any more, they are far more like offices for personal finance, applying for loans, arranging ELECTRONIC management of your funds, mortgages, savings accounts, etc.
I'm quite sure one bank could handle millions of dollars of money in just one day yet I'm quite sure you could not find more than maybe a couple thousand dollars of actual cash in the whole place. I mean a bank has amazing solid defences, robust security response and the location is often where it is hard to escape from and easy for the cops to surround.
...
But a certain film does spring to mind:
PUMPKIN
I mean the way it is now, you're
takin' the same fuckin' risk as
when you rob a bank. You take more
of a risk. Banks are easier!
Federal banks aren't supposed to
stop you anyway, during a robbery.
They're insured, why should they
care? You don't even need a gun in
a federal bank.
I heard about this guy, walked into
a federal bank with a portable
phone, handed the phone to the
teller, the guy on the other end of
the phone said: "We got this guy's
little girl, and if you don't give
him all your money, we're gonna
kill 'er."
HONEY BUNNY
Did it work?
PUMPKIN
Fuckin' A it worked, that's what
I'm talkin' about! Knucklehead
walks in a bank with a telephone,
not a pistol, not a shotgun, but a
fuckin' phone, cleans the place
out, and they don't lift a fuckin'
finger.
As Pulp Fiction illustrates, you have to rob people where they least expect it, and most importantly where the ACTUAL cash is. There is no cash in a bank, in relative terms at least, the paycheck is either wired directly or is just a bit of paper, the withdrawals are either by credit card, debit card or from an ATM/cash machine.
No, the place to hit if anywhere are the cash machines, the ATMs, they are often in remote locations, unguarded and police response is slow, so you would won't even need a gun as there would presumably be no people around to care.
The best trick would be to pose as a technician who is merely refilling the cash machine, if you can figure out how to access the cash without setting off the alarms, you can rob them and they wouldn't notice for days.
But it won't be long before the bank-robber or cash robber will be completely obsolete as we rely more and more on electronic payments via debit cards, credit cards, pre-paid and stored-vault cards, even payments directly though your mobile phone. Cash will more into the periphery of finances making it harder to steal and even harder to use.
And so with it an entire class of criminal will disappear, the stick up artist, one that is as old as civilisation itself.
This is the 21st century, banks just aren't the same as the wild west, prohibition era or even the 90's as with HEAT.
No body robs banks any more as that is not where the money is kept. I mean who deposits cash in a bank any more? Cheques maybe, apply for loans, but there is hardly any money in banks any more, they are far more like offices for personal finance, applying for loans, arranging ELECTRONIC management of your funds, mortgages, savings accounts, etc.
I'm quite sure one bank could handle millions of dollars of money in just one day yet I'm quite sure you could not find more than maybe a couple thousand dollars of actual cash in the whole place. I mean a bank has amazing solid defences, robust security response and the location is often where it is hard to escape from and easy for the cops to surround.
...
But a certain film does spring to mind:
PUMPKIN
I mean the way it is now, you're
takin' the same fuckin' risk as
when you rob a bank. You take more
of a risk. Banks are easier!
Federal banks aren't supposed to
stop you anyway, during a robbery.
They're insured, why should they
care? You don't even need a gun in
a federal bank.
I heard about this guy, walked into
a federal bank with a portable
phone, handed the phone to the
teller, the guy on the other end of
the phone said: "We got this guy's
little girl, and if you don't give
him all your money, we're gonna
kill 'er."
HONEY BUNNY
Did it work?
PUMPKIN
Fuckin' A it worked, that's what
I'm talkin' about! Knucklehead
walks in a bank with a telephone,
not a pistol, not a shotgun, but a
fuckin' phone, cleans the place
out, and they don't lift a fuckin'
finger.
As Pulp Fiction illustrates, you have to rob people where they least expect it, and most importantly where the ACTUAL cash is. There is no cash in a bank, in relative terms at least, the paycheck is either wired directly or is just a bit of paper, the withdrawals are either by credit card, debit card or from an ATM/cash machine.
No, the place to hit if anywhere are the cash machines, the ATMs, they are often in remote locations, unguarded and police response is slow, so you would won't even need a gun as there would presumably be no people around to care.
The best trick would be to pose as a technician who is merely refilling the cash machine, if you can figure out how to access the cash without setting off the alarms, you can rob them and they wouldn't notice for days.
But it won't be long before the bank-robber or cash robber will be completely obsolete as we rely more and more on electronic payments via debit cards, credit cards, pre-paid and stored-vault cards, even payments directly though your mobile phone. Cash will more into the periphery of finances making it harder to steal and even harder to use.
And so with it an entire class of criminal will disappear, the stick up artist, one that is as old as civilisation itself.
The holy granade
OR an encreadably annoying person, then threten the bank give me the money or i will leave him here
OR an encreadably annoying person, then threten the bank give me the money or i will leave him here
The problem with that is in the UK and I'm pretty sure America too, it is considered armed robbery even if you just make the victim THINK you are armed. That ranges from an unloaded gun to a toy/replica pistols to even the old "I've got a gun in my pocket" bullshit that is just your hand in a coat pocket pointing like a gun, even though there was no actual threat to life it is the principal that will land you time.Manhattan2112 said:So, this would take a long time, but here's what I'd do (It's gonna sound messed up): I would burn a ton of marijuana in one of the air ducts in the bank, and as everyone inside gets high, I would come in, and shout, "I have a gun! Nobody move!" And they would all think I had a gun. Then when I have my money, I'd run 2 blocks to a snowmobile I had cleverly hidden in a bush, and use it to cruise away, while the cops think I just vanished. They can't catch you if you're on a snowmobile.
So you might as well actually use a gun, the law will treat it the same way.
Scratch that, don't rob banks or anywhere, you'll just get hunted down and thrown in jail.
In fact the entire definition of "Robbery" as distinct from just theft is the use of force, intimidation and threat or use of violence against the victim i.e. the tellers and customers.
So to "Rob a bank without a gun" is somewhat an oxymoron as if you remove the gun element and presumably don't replace it with any other deadly weapon then it would not be a robbery any more. It would be an ingenious theft to take the money without physically confronting any individual, but with any theft there is the possibility of someone getting involved and the situation quickly degenerating into violence.
And that is why many facilities hire security guards even if unarmed, their mere confronting the assailants will force them to abandon their theft as they don't want to risk doubling their sentence by fighting with a security guard.
I mean Ocean's 11 was a perfect film till they used that sleeping gas on the guards. That makes it at least Aggravated burglary, rendering someone unconscious and tying them up is more serious than stealing even a large amount of money.
