Bank robbery on opening day of deer season?

[un2xs]

I have a vague memory of a bank robbery attempt many years back that occurred on the opening day of deer season. The bank was across from the local diner where many hunters were having a late brunch. Story went that the robbers came outside only to be met by all the local hunters with scoped rifles pointed right at them.

My Google-fu is not at master level. I can not find a reference to this incident.

Did this actually happen? Was it on tv or in a movie? Or was this just the result of too much sugar and caffeine before bed?

[Carp]

Funny story there was/is a small diner across the street from our town bank. Pat's Diner was the name when last open. Even has/had a walk up ice cream window for summer time. 🤮 No robbery or stop lights yet though...*wink*wink*

[k_obeastly]

Don’t know about your story but clinton, mo had a bank robbery at the bank that sits across the street from the sheriff’s office/local jail a few years ago. Just a bum that figured a warm cell was better than freezing to death in the winter.

[Carp]

One in PA for health care....wth?

[DocsMachine]

The one I read, years ago, in a gun magazine- that supposedly had names, dates and details- had two guys try to rob a bank in Washington DC.

DC has had it's share of crime problems for a long time- it was only a few months ago, that somebody held up a Secret Service agent at gunpoint!- but in this case, the bank in question was right across the street from... the FBI headquarters. On Friday, a payday. Before the advent of direct deposit.

Supposedly it was something like they ran in, pulled guns, yelled "this is a stick-up!" (or whatever) and every single customer in the lobby drew their weapons and levelled 'em at them.

The article I read appeared legit- as I said, it gave the names of the crooks, a date and year, etc. But that was pre-internet, so who knows?

I can recall one definitely from a movie, though. I think it starred Brian Dennehy? Something like a retired cop in Boston, hanging out at a packed pub. Some crook rushes in with a gun, demands the bartender give him what's in the register. In the immediate silence, you hear about two hundred guns being cocked- it's a bar where off-duty police officers hang out, and every single one of them is pointing a gun at him.

Doc.

[SignOfZeta]

The FBI version sounds about 1000 times more realistic.