Comment Re:Making getaway cars extinct? (Score 3, Interesting) 147
If your crime requires you to point a gun at people, you are going to do hard time. Do you really want to risk 20 years in prison for $7000?
The article didn't say anything about him carrying a gun-- he just handed the teller a note.
I personally know a guy* who put his finger in a small brown paper bag and tried to rob a Safeway (food store) in Tucson. He was drunk, and they didn't feel threatened. The store employees chased him on foot until he fell.
He ended up getting (what amounts to) 11 calendar years, which is lenient for armed robbery in Arizona, USA.
It doesn't matter if you really have a gun or not. It's armed robbery.
*He, actually, is a smart guy, and he would never hurt anybody. He was depressed and didn't care what happened to himself.