It only took a few seconds; a man approached the bank teller in such a casual manner that an employee, working only a few feet away, didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.

However, the note he handed the teller changed all that.

There were no guns blazing in this bank robbery.

“I want money and I have a gun,” the note read, according to the teller.

“It was like, wow, this is really happening,” he added. “It was very surreal.”

When the robber left, everyone working that day heard the words no bank employee wants to hear, “we’ve

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I recently had lunch with an extraordinary woman. Her name was Maya and was a friend of my father. She had a graceful manner with a sharp and clever humor.
During the lunch we shared a laugh or two but more importantly she explained a horrific attempted burglary at the home of her 87-year-old mother.
This happened one night a couple of months ago. An unknown assailant took the time to unscrew her mother’s bedroom window, set the window neatly in the bushes and get into the house while her mother slept.
Maya said her mother woke up to use the restroom when she noticed t

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