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Brave bank customer takes on robber.


Summary: A bank customer in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name.  trying to protect his wife leaped over rope lines A rope line is a rope, often covered with velvet, that separates famous persons from a crowd. It is strung from portable metal or plastic poles. In American political terminology, a politician "walking down the rope line" is shaking hands of his or her supporters and guests.  and wrestled a would-be robber to the ground.

An alert bank customer in Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States
Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee
 trying to protect his wife leaped over rope lines and wrestled a would-be robber to the ground.

Surveillance video inside the Guardian Credit Union building in suburban Milwaukee caught the whole incident on camera from multiple angles.

West Allis West Allis, city (1990 pop. 63,221), Milwaukee co., SE Wis., a residential and industrial suburb of Milwaukee; inc. 1902. Mobile equipment, electronic products, generators, and heavy machinery are among its manufactures.  police said a man wearing a black hooded hood·ed  
adj.
1. Covered with or having a hood.

2. Shaped like a hood, cowl, or similar covering.

3. Zoology
a. Having coloration or a crest suggesting a hood.

b.
 sweatshirt and mask handed notes to three tellers demanding money.

The suspect, 23-year-old Senister Smith, shoved the money in a bag and was about to leave when he was tackled from behind by a man wearing a yellow shirt.

The customer wrestled Smith to the floor and held him until police arrived because he said he feared for the safety of his wife who was standing near the suspect.

Smith was charge with armed robbery.

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Date:Sep 21, 2009
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