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'We rob banks. And PayPal.'

Published Thursday 15th May 2008 00:33 GMT

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Bonnie & Clyde?? 

By Herby
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 01:43 GMT
Coat

Maybe this couple can meet the same fate as the original. It might prove to be a very good example for deterrence!

Now where did I park that old Ford! (Never stop to help someone with a flat tire?).

Is this jacket bullet proof?

heh heh hehehe you said 'Burglarizing' 

By Kenny Millar
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 08:45 GMT
Dead Vulture

So they turned their friends home into a burglar?

I think you mean 'burgling'.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/burgled

@Kenny Millar 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 09:41 GMT

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=burglar

disguise their appearance... 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 09:43 GMT
Coat

"The couple used eBay, PayPal and a vast network of brick-and-mortar banks and sometimes employed masks and wigs to disguise their appearance."

Explains the sunglasses symbol after the userid on eBay....

Mines the one with the Boris wig in the pocket

Kewl - Americans screwing each other over 

By shaun
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 11:48 GMT

Pity they didn't shoot anyone too. I wonder when the movie is due out.

Pah! 

By ImaGnuber
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 16:08 GMT

No machine guns, no bullet riddled car. This is just a couple of thieves.

Feds are getting soft these days... 

By Jon Tocker
Posted Thursday 15th May 2008 21:08 GMT

Back in the day they gunned down Bonnie and Clyde.

That said, the criteria for being a modern day Bonnie and Clyde seems pretty slack - Bonnie and Clyde did armed hold-ups (though it's said Bonnie never actually brandished or fired a weapon, she was more support and logistics - W. D. Jones: "As far as I know, Bonnie never packed a gun. Maybe she'd help carry what we had in the car into a tourist-court room. But during the five big gun battles I was with them, she never fired a gun. But I'll say she was a hell of a loader.")

Waiting for some unrepentant video/music "pirate" to be deemed "The new Jack the Ripper" because, like, you know, his crimes [against Warner Bros et al.] are like really /heinous/.

Nab? 

By Moss Icely Spaceport
Posted Friday 16th May 2008 03:45 GMT
Unhappy

What's wrong with an old fashioned shoot-out?

Courts are slow. 

By Anonymous from Mars
Posted Saturday 17th May 2008 04:05 GMT

It seems courts will never be timely with anything - they were arrested back in Novenber of 2007!

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