The Importance of Being Away From Anyone

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Clay: "I wasn't really thinking very clearly. It wasn't a good idea to do something so close to my house" He used his note method and walked out of the bank with just over $7,000. A month later he met his match at Chase Bank in Allen, Texas. There was about 40 feet between Clay and the bank doors. His options were run or pretend that the teller had lost her mind.

When we're kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up -- movie star, doctor, astronaut. But what if we dream of being like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James, or John Dillinger? And what happens when you're not a kid anymore but you're still obsessed with becoming an outlaw? For Clay Tumey, this dream led him to commit a series of robberies in 2006.

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