How to Be a Successful Banker

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Clay: "You could rob a bank with a sticky note. That's all you need" Clay says he thought about what that note would say, and it was very clear in terms of instructions. He wanted the teller to put the money in the envelope and hand it back to him so there would be no evidence left behind. The three things that I wrote were, give me your 50s and 100s. I'm not going to hurt you. You know, don't look at me.

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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