"Polite Robber"

[Yupt]

i love how they actually discussed how much the robber was allowed, and then wished each other well as they left. lool

[Nuxty]

Did no-one else find the situation extremely saddening? That someone was so down on his luck that the only way he could pay rent and support his children was basically begging at gunpoint?

I did. To see a man who really didn't want to do this, have to actually do it was very saddening for me personally. It shows though, sometimes in order to keep families together, people need to go to desperate measures.

[Jessicrawrr]

that makes me feel sorry for that guy, but he was nice enough not to run in screaming, nicer then what some robbers would do :L

[craig1709]

I would've given him the money just because he said please.

Manners don't cost a penny, but when you have manners, you can get lots of pennies.

[-:Undertaker:-]

That is a sad story and while thieving is wrong, it goes to show that the poor always suffer the most under the burdens of high taxation.

But yet it continues in the name of 'helping the poor'.

[Stephen]

aww You could tell how much he didn't want to do it and I loved how he was like if I get back on my feet again I'll return it

Dunno why but he reminded me of jigsaw for some reason. Know when in saw they do flashbacks of before he became jigsaw.

[Jordy]

On reflection I wouldn't feel that sorry for him...

Gregory Paul Hess, the 65-year-old suspected of being the so-called "Polite Robber," was charged Thursday with first-degree robbery.

Hess is suspected of being the armed robber who earned the nickname after engaging in niceties while robbing a Seattle convenience store last weekend, according to the King County Sheriff's Office. The robber profusely apologized to the White Center gas station owner and told him that he and needed the cash for rent and food, according to charges.

Hess remains in the King County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. He will be arraigned on Feb. 24, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

When Hess was arrested in connection with the gas station robbery he was on federal probation for bank robbery.

In 2003, the FBI in Seattle gave Hess the nickname "The Transaction Bandit" because he would ask bank tellers for small change before demanding all the cash in their drawers, according to federal court records. The Seattle Times published a story and photograph of the "Transaction Bandit" in May of that year and former co-workers who knew Hess from the Starbucks store in Seattle's Madison Valley recognized his photo, the records say.

Hess ultimately pleaded guilty to six armed robberies -- one at a Crown Hill Blockbuster video store that netted him $200, followed by five bank robberies in Seattle and on the Eastside -- and was ordered to pay $9,723 in restitution, the records show.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...er_charge.html

Nothing more than a bank robber, who'll soon enough be in jail

[Stephen]

That's well funny that the fbi gave him a nickname and stuff lmaoo