4 - Sunday, October U1, 1987 -

North Shore News

Bob Hunter

@ strictly personal ®

THE BEST crime story so far this year was the one about the escaped convicted bank robber who walked in- to his own bank on Granville Street in downtown Van- couver, withdrew $30 from his own account, then whip- ped out his gun and demanded a roll of cash from two

tellers.

As he strolled out the door, he is reported to have said: ‘‘Don’t worry about it. You know who | am.”

That has to be the best bank robbery line of all time! Or at least the dumbest. Hard to tell which. But then, great lines are like that: enigmatic.

Think what Woody Allen would do with this scene. I’m amazed no producers have mate- tialized to insist on throwing tremendous gobs of cash at some deserving scriptwriter to make a movie about the ‘‘You-know- who-I-am’”’ bandit.

The gentleman in question had been serving an 18-year sentence for armed robbery when he fled

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RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in the following fines and convic- trons: for drinking: and = driv- ing-related offences. Mandatory licence suspension is in addition to published penalties.

NORTH VANCOUVER COURTS: Sheldon Roger Bradie, ‘2161 Monteray St., Coquitlam (over .08, $750 fine); Allan John Robinson, 835 Lillooet Rd., North Vancouver (over .08, $700 fine); lan Smith, 1670 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver (over .08, $700); Norman Garth Cunningham, 883 W. 16th St., North Vancouver (over .08, $1,000 fine); Patrick Michael Onions, 7634 McCallum View, Grand Forks (over ,08, $750 fine).

from Elbow Lake, a federal min- imum security prison in the Fraser Valley, some five months before.

Since then he’d been working at a bakery, had opened his own bank account, and was surviving on the lam until he pulled this bizarre caper. The cops are all over his case now. His picture has appeared in the papers.

What made him go to his own bank, of all banks? Was it an ex- ercise in chutzpah? Was he un- able to stand the pressure of liv- ing underground any longer? Was he secretly wanting to be recaptured so he could enjoy the security of prison again?

Was it just his vanity that

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overwhelmed him? That's possi- ble toa.

Maybe there’s a clue in his age. Could well be. He was 47. Late mid-life male identity breakdown?

Might have been tanked-up or wired. Probably just crazy.

Whatever the case, there is something about this guy and his fate that makes me sit up and wonder about life, what we do with our fives, how we do ourselves in.

Our unbashful bank robber, while an extreme case, was acting out something that I see in all of us. It varies in degree. Certainly | have never encountered anyone who was quite so spectacularly self-destructive before, but f have met a lot who were nearly so.

Back in the '60s, in the era when marathon T-groups and gestalt therapy were new, there was a lot of talk about taking re- sponsibility for one’s own destiny. It was a part of the lex- icon of the time: Why am I doing this to myself?

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assumption that people sub- consciously manipulate their en- vironment and everyone around them madly, all the time.

When we trip, we make ourselves trip. When we shoot ourselves im the foot, it is a message from our self to us.

In other words, there are far fewer ‘taccidents’’ than we think.

Instead, we put ourselves through a lot — if not all — of the ordeals we find ourselves having to endure. And perhaps we even do so collectively.

Reincarnationists would say each lifetime is merely the soul trying on different experiences for size.

Leaving the total cosmological meaning of life aside for the moment, let us simply note in passing that bank robbers who deposit calling cards ut the scene of the crime are nothing if not self-fulfilling prophets.

As a therapist might say, they must want to be doing this.

For all their griping, people wind up mostly doing what they want to be doing. My late guru Henry Miller remarked that anybody who says they would

rather be doing something other than what they are doing is kid- ding themselves.

Robbing a bank is a perfectly traditional undertaking. !'m not offering a value judgetient, you understand. I’a1 just saying that bank-robbing, while not being the oldest profession, is quite possibly the second or third oldest.

It can’t predate the invention of money, since banks couldn’t be said to exist until then, but the setting up of the firs: vault must have instantly invented the idea of stealing what was in there, by force or stealth — those being the only means, since sweet reason wasn’t going to work then any more than it does now.

Can you imagine going up to a teller and saying: “Listen, I’m going to explain to you why | should be trusted with, say, a billion dollars.’’ And after you stated your beautifully-ar- ticulated case, she said: ‘You're right. Absolutely. Here."

One thing you do have to ad- mit about our vociferous bank tobber. He sure knew how to make himself vulnerable, eh?

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