3/2 Author's Note: This post has been amended for clarity.
This evening, a friend e-mailed Annette Jordan's latest offering in the Courier, entitled, "What Would You Do If . . . ?". It was inspired by last month's robbery at the Asheboro SECU (where I too still have an account). What would you do if faced with a life-altering decision that needed to be made in seconds?
Would you step up/get involved/speak out or would you shrink back?
You must understand that I digested this piece just after shaking off Annette's, "Getting a Kick Out of Awards", bit from last week (about Ms. Jordan accompanying J.D. Walker to the N.C. Press Association awards in Raleigh in mid-February). Since the Courier is behind a paywall, we won't bother with the links.
The thing is, I already KNOW what I would do. I also know that some mobs don't appear so angry on the surface, and drink/dine at the local Country Club.
I also know what Annette & her pals at the Courier would do - or more accurately, what they would NOT do (and why yes, I'm ANGRY about it).
In point of fact, award-winning J.D. Walker put down her pen in 2004 when my Father and I pleaded for help (long before this blog posted word one . . . in case local attorney/FBC member/big Dem, Bob Williams, ever has any questions about WHY I'm here in the ether doing myself no favors . . . translation: none of the right-upstanding-folk-with-small-town-values in Asheboro ever did). The Chipper can be bought. Ray Criscoe will go with the finger foods over the truth every time. The new publisher dances-in-step-with-the-Randolph-County-stars almost a ably as the old. And Annette has played dead/run from her shadow for years . . . the same thing I expect she would have done in the bank.
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Since I don't have access to the Curious-Tribune, I have no idea as to "What Would You Do If . . . ?" is about, but I can tell you as a former banker, the choice weapon for robbing a bank isn't a firearm, but rather an ink pen. And, those wielding such a weapon tend to belong to the First (insert name of denomination here) Church and the local country club. Seriously, the bank robberies with the largest takes aren't done by armed hoods, but by...."respectable and church going" types...just like those in your town.
I had a conversation with a pleasant chap named Bill once while riding the local bus across Las Vegas. Bill had some financial setbacks that led him to commit bank robberies with a toy gun. He had a few hits, never getting much more than $1500 or so, and then his luck ran out. He pulled seven years in a Utah penitentiary for it, and was living in a halfway house in Las Vegas and looking for work when I made his acquaintance. Poor Bill, he was so crestfallen when I told him of the $2MM heist that came out of bank I once worked in, and that it was an "inside" job, and while it was thought to have been employee related, nobody was ever caught. A couple of computer keystrokes and all that money left the United States and disappeared into some hole in Grand Cayman.
A criminal with a suit is just so much a well dressed criminal.....
Perhaps I was a bit lax in the post.
I have a good excuse. The "parent company" might sue me for pilfering their intellectual property.
(Stop laughing!)
Our Annette ponders what she would do if suddenly faced with a life-altering choice . . . you know, like confronting a bank robber at the local SECU . . . or defying the threats of your clueless, greedy, morally bankrupt bosses in order to save a baby girl's life.
She also takes a shot at the "angry mobs/gangs" that populate our news cycles lately. I expect she's sensitive because of we cyber-bullies criticizing her previously un-assailable "newspaper".
"intellectual property"...they have that at the Courier-Tribune?
So far as I can tell, and after a lifetime of pseudo-regular reading (well, until recently), it's a baseless assertion.
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