THE INVISIBLE MAN BANDIT TOOK THE WRONG ADVICE.Byline: - Josh Kleinbaum When John Harvey Thomas robbed his first - and, it turned out, his only - bank in the early 1970s, he deliberately stared into the security camera on the way out, giving the FBI portrait-quality photos of the man they later dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the Invisible Man Invisible Man (Griffin) character made invisible by chemicals. [Br. Lit.: Invisible Man] See : Invisibility Bandit bandit: see brigandage. . With such good pictures, it didn't take agents long to ID the suspect as Harvey, who'd served time in prison for residential robbery. It was while he was behind bars that he sought advice from other inmates on how to perform the perfect bank heist Bank Heist is a maze video game developed by 20th Century Fox for the Atari 2600. Each level in Bank Heist is a maze-like city (similar to Pac-Man). The objective of the game is to rob as many banks as possible while avoiding the police. . The trick was to avoid being photographed, they told him. Since most security cameras were strategically placed and difficult to dodge, he'd be better off trying to disrupt the chemical process used to develop the film. Since that process includes mercury, he was advised to coat his body with a substance containing mercury, rendering him invisible on the security film. Luckily for Harvey, a cream containing mercury oxide was available over the counter at any pharmacy - as treatment for a venereal disease venereal disease (vənēr`ēəl): see sexually transmitted disease. . So after he got out of prison, he bought the cream, slathered it all over his face and hands and robbed a bank. ``We had the most beautiful photos,'' retired FBI agent Bill Rehder recalled. ``His face had a nice sheen to it.'' When confronted by Rehder and LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. detectives, Harvey blamed his predicament on his former cellmates, insisting, ``They lied to me.'' |
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