Devastation Media

The American Bank of Texas in Garden Ridge was recently robbed at gunpoint. As armed assailants go, this seems to be one of the more peaceable sorts. I haven’t seen any report of violence. Just a quick in-and-out in a bad disguise. I’m sure he managed to scare the poor teller half to death though. As anyone who has had a pistol pointed at them will readily tell you, it’s no fun at all.

There are some who view bank robbery as a fairly victimless crime as long as no violence isn’t involved. We have been conditioned to think this way somewhat by tales of eloquent scoundrels such as Robin Hood who robbed the rich to give to the poor, or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who I’m sure were far less charming in person than Paul Newman and Robert Redford were in the definitive portrayal.

And while it may be true that if you look at the surveillance photo from that Garden Ridge bank, it’s almost comical to see the little man in his disguise standing in front of a female teller who looks like she towers over him and would be handing him the beating of his life were it not for the firearm. I for one, see something else present.

The bank in Garden Ridge has no bullet proof glass between banker and customer. It doesn’t look as if it has much in the way of an armed security guard or resident police presence either. I imagine if it did, things may have gone in a much more volatile way. There are cloth ghosts and pumpkins hanging from the ceiling for Halloween. The re appears to be just one teller present, who wears no uniform, but is well presented nonetheless.

In short, even from this small glimpse of it, Garden Ridge looks like a nice place to live, right out of an old movie or a Norman Rockwell painting. I can only hope that stunts like this won’t steal that away too, along with whatever money he took.

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