10 Tips For Robbing A Bank From A Retired Bank Robber
Not that you should rob a bank. But if you were to.
Clay Tumey is a hardened criminal. He's robbed numerous banks and perfected his craft so well that he never got caught. In fact, the only reason he ever went to prison was because five months after his final robbery he decided to turn himself in.
After three years paying his debts to society and using his time in prison to change his trajectory in life, Tumey has decided to tell his unique story to the world. The Blue Chip Store is his book that tells his story of crime, prison, and second chances.
To promote this book project, Tumey took to Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything forum to field questions regarding his criminal past. He was straightforward, giving many insights into the process of actually robbing a bank.
And to plainly state this now: this article is in no way encouraging anyone to rob a bank. That is a dangerous, criminal act and can often turn violent. People can die during bank robberies, so read all the following 'tips' as the story of a man who has realized how wrong the decisions that he made earlier in his life were. Don't rob banks.
The following 10 tips highlight not only some of the methods regarding how Clay Tumey unlawfully took money from banks, but some also show the decisions he's made since giving up that life.
10. Do Your Homework
Like any endeavor, one must not hastily rush into something that has such a high risk. Over the course of two years in the mid-2000s, Clay Tumey fine-tuned his skills in what he called the "art of bank robbery." The internet would prove to be an invaluable resource.
"I researched for about five or six months prior to my first one. I studied mostly the things that people did to get caught, and I just tried to plan around those things. It's hard to know how people get away since those details rarely make it to the news, but studying how people get caught was incredibly helpful in knowing what to avoid."
All that studying paid off, because the amount of planning was drastically reduced in every subsequent robbery. Other than making sure his parking situation was favorable he realized that he didn't need to worry about scoping out the bank locations. Bank heist knowledge is apparently learned by experience.