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Police search for suspect in Schenectady bank robbery
Updated: 9:11 pm  

Some scary moments for customers and tellers at a Trustco Bank in Schenectady Saturday morning.
Police say a man walked into the bank at 1048 State Street at about 10 a.m. and handed the teller a note demanding money and threatening a gun.

No one ever saw a weapon, but the suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of money.

Police don't have a good description of the suspect yet, but say he drove away in an older model caravan going westbound on State Street.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/.....C1UQymtQ.cspx?rss=39

With the Greek Fest, Stockade Art Show (a block away) and the Italian Fest all going on...doesn't the City have some sort of beefed up security...at least for one day?

Just wondering.

Very renaissancie.

So Schenectady

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With the Greek Fest, Stockade Art Show (a block away) and the Italian Fest all going on...doesn't the City have some sort of beefed up security...at least for one day?

All the additional police were down on North Jay. Surprised that Trustco keeps this Vale branch open. Schenectady is no place for business-monkey business yes?

How many times has this branch been robbed now ... it's been several, if I remember correctly

...yawn...

I'm pretty sure that I remember, back when crime was a rarity, you would go into a bank and there would be a uniformed, armed guard right in the lobby. This is way back when I would go with my parents. That was the interesting thing about the bank, the fact that there was a guard, which was usually something you saw on TV. That is correct, isn't it, that the banks used to have guards?
Now, as robbing a bank becomes more and more common, you often have just a few young women, all by themselves, at the mercy of God-knows-who might decide to walk in. Of course, back when I'm remembering the guards being there you didn't have bank branches all over the place, every few blocks and sometimes more. So I'm thinking it would be expensive to have guards all over so maybe their removal is a money-saving move?
All the craziness and violations of our freedoms in the name of "safety", and yet in an area where the threat is increasingly real, less concern for safety 'than previously? With all the money the banks make? Does this not seem odd?
Maybe the fact that the branches only keep a few thousand on hand makes it not worth the extra security from the bank's standpoint. But I'm thinking of a deterrent to some desperate addict coming in there with or without a weapon and endangering employees and customers. That's usually what it is, someone desperate for drug money.

double yawn...

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I'm pretty sure that I remember, back when crime was a rarity, you would go into a bank and there would be a uniformed, armed guard right in the lobby. This is way back when I would go with my parents. That was the interesting thing about the bank, the fact that there was a guard, which was usually something you saw on TV. That is correct, isn't it, that the banks used to have guards?

I remember five years ago when there was a police officer in the Price Chopper vestibule on McClellan. Trustco will probably close this branch and move it out of Schenectady as they have done with their offices.  

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I remember five years ago when there was a police officer in the Price Chopper vestibule on McClellan. Trustco will probably close this branch and move it out of Schenectady as they have done with their offices.  

This is actually a positive development. Now Death Ray/McCarthy will have more room for parking for the nonexistent Walgreen's. Right the one that they stopped across the street.

Funny but there are scanners and cops in the dss building, city hall and the ss office!!! BUT NOT THE BANKS??? And in crimeridden schenectady no less?

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double yawn...

GravelGertie aka DV aka SB    Put your girdle on, you really need one.    Keep on yawning and sweeping crime under the rug PRETENDING it doesn't exist in the socialist city.   Then one day, you will wake up and wonder why your those dem millionaires cronies have left the city - when the homeowners have abandoned the ctiy because of the high taxes, the ever reduced necessary services and the every increasing crime - these things have all started.  Taxes are have been increasing, crime is increasing, necessary services are being reduced, people are abandoning the city, and even some of the downtown businesses have left.   Keep cheering for ignoring the homeowners, keep cheering for increasing the taxes on the homeowners, keep cheering for property values to plummet.   Where do you think the city is going to get the money when homeowners have left even the best of neighborhoods and the vacant and abandoned properties aren't paying taxes?  

Heck, they have already started leaving the best of neighborhoods, the fanciest houses - I trust you do remember that house in the GE plot that the owner realized it's not good to live in the city, couldn't sell, and finally abandoned the house---oh yeah you pretend that didn't happen, you won't acknowledge anyone in the GE plot could abandon their house.   How about all the houses in the GE plot that people are DESPARASTELY trying to leave and NO ONE is intersted in buying as PROVEN by the long long long long long time they have been up for sale?????    What have you got to say about that, huh?   Do we truth tellers need to provide you the inks to the real estate ads to prove to you that people are fleeing the city?????


You've got the life,  Nice to be a mama's boy and live off others

[color=red][/color]TRUSTCO, ever wonder about a bank that feels compelled to put TRUST in their name.

The real bank robbery is the interest paid to depositors.

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GravelGertie aka DV aka SB    Put your girdle on, you really need one.    Keep on yawning and sweeping crime under the rug PRETENDING it doesn't exist in the socialist city.   Then one day, you will wake up and wonder why your those dem millionaires cronies have left the city - when the homeowners have abandoned the ctiy because of the high taxes, the ever reduced necessary services and the every increasing crime - these things have all started.  Taxes are have been increasing, crime is increasing, necessary services are being reduced, people are abandoning the city, and even some of the downtown businesses have left.   Keep cheering for ignoring the homeowners, keep cheering for increasing the taxes on the homeowners, keep cheering for property values to plummet.   Where do you think the city is going to get the money when homeowners have left even the best of neighborhoods and the vacant and abandoned properties aren't paying taxes?  

Heck, they have already started leaving the best of neighborhoods, the fanciest houses - I trust you do remember that house in the GE plot that the owner realized it's not good to live in the city, couldn't sell, and finally abandoned the house---oh yeah you pretend that didn't happen, you won't acknowledge anyone in the GE plot could abandon their house.   How about all the houses in the GE plot that people are DESPARASTELY trying to leave and NO ONE is intersted in buying as PROVEN by the long long long long long time they have been up for sale?????    What have you got to say about that, huh?   Do we truth tellers need to provide you the inks to the real estate ads to prove to you that people are fleeing the city?????


You've got the life,  Nice to be a mama's boy and live off others

But he is going to make it his life's work to get some other poor chump to put his hard earned money up to set up shop in Schitnectitty county. When they see what the property tax burden is, they will hang up on him.