Deja Vu and Magoo, too. - the FBI goes after bank robbers
This year, crooks with nefarious monikers such as the Napkin Bandit and the Landscape Bandit have helped themselves to cash at 203 banks from Riverside to San Luis Obispo, taking over the financial centers and grabbing hostages 29 times. While that's better than the 250 robberies perpetrated in the same period last year, with 59 takeovers, the feds still aren't satisfied.
To publicize its attack on those bank-robbing brigands, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced a new Web site, LABankRobbers.org today. The site aims to allow law enforcement agencies to coordinate efforts to grab the crooks by sharing their photos.
As we learned with the Irreconcilable Differences Bandit, Zorro and the Goofy Hat Bandit, the names and photos that go along with these (almost always) guys can be quite entertaining, as well. The FBI hopes to get ordinary citizens such as you, dear readers, involved in the fun -- hopefully recognizing the photos and passing along tips. So spend a little quality time with folks like the Magoo Bandit, below, a suspect in a Ventura robbery, and let the enforcement excitement begin.
