A SEMI-AUTOMATIC AND ... A SKATEBOARD?The Sheriff's Department believes that the same young man who robbed Mid-State Bank close to noon on May 2 called in a fake bomb threat to the Chumash Casino 20 minutes earlier as a distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] . In less than two minutes, the robber-dressed in green overalls, white mask, and red bandanna-ran up to one teller's window with a semi-automatic handgun, then jumped over the counter and threatened a second teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. , who gave him cash and then watched him flee flee v. fled , flee·ing, flees v.intr. 1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night. 2. the scene on a skateboard. Thoug deputie immediately diverted themselves from the casino to the bank and had the aid of the SWAT team, they failed to locate the robber, who later ditched his clothes in an underground parking area a few blocks away. The robber still on the loose. (From the Santa Barbara Independent The Santa Barbara Independent is a free arts and entertainment newsweekly published in Santa Barbara, California. The paper, which is published every Thursday and was founded in November 1986, has a circulation of over 40,000 and an audited readership of more than 100,000. , submitted by Tim Wenzel). |
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