Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

It is easy to spot those criminals who have taken advantage of my free (fictional) planning service. They never ask a cop for directions, never use their own address on robbery notes, and so forth.

In fact, quite the opposite...they often devise cunning and devious plans to escape with the loot unseen, unheard, uncaptured.

Take, for example, the mysterious John Doe, master criminal, who clearly used my service to full effect.

He went into a bank in Montgomery Township. The bank was robbed. The alarm was tripped. The SWAT team arrived. For 45 minutes they tried to negotiate with him. They could see his silhouette inside the bank.

Now, it should be noted Doe was not moving a great deal. Fortunately, nobody chose to snipe him. After all, it could have been a hostage forced to act as a human shield or something.

Anyhow, after waiting for three quarters of an hour for Doe to respond, the SWAT team assaulted the bank.

To their chagrin, they discovered that Doe was not, in fact, in the bank. As intelligent robbers do, he followed my clever plan and was somewhere many miles away. The silhouette? A life-size stand-up left behind to fool the cops. Seems like it worked...