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Cardboard 'man' keeps cops at bay
Friday, November 28, 2008
BY GEORGE BERKIN AND JIM O'NEILL
Star-Ledger Staff
A cardboard figure of a person inside a Somerset County bank kept police at bay for 90 minutes last night, authorities said.

The standoff at the PNC Bank on Routes 518 and 601 in the Skillman section of Montgomery Township ended about 10:20 p.m., Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said.

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Police said an alarm went off about 8:40 p.m.

When officers arrived, they saw what they thought was at least one person through the windows of the bank, which had its blinds drawn, according to authorities.

Police sealed off the area to traffic and evacuated residents in three nearby apartment buildings.

"I drove in the parking lot (of my apartment building) and see all these guys with guns," said Ross Stout, who lives nearby.

Authorities tried to make contact with whoever might be in the building. Officers used bullhorns and then tried to call inside the building, Forrest said.

After failing to get any response from the figure inside, the SWAT team entered.

To their chagrin, they discovered the "person" seen inside the building was a full-size cardboard figure, Forrest said.


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Was Barney Fife among them?

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1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

They had their work cut out for them.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Was this cut out a bank advertising piece, or was somebody actually robbing the bank?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I read somewhere that two of the officers had to be treated for paper cuts.

At least they don't have to take a photo of the suspect.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

Freeze!!!

The full-size cardboard figure was the Chairman of the Board

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'86 300E 5 speed
'71 Triumph TR6
'46 Cushman Scooter
'41 Ford 9N tractor

I don't understand.

Why didn't they just shoot it?

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86 560SL
With homebrew first gear start!
85 380SL
Daily Driver Project

http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl/mercedes.htm

These crooks today are so one-dimensional.

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They were waiting for the scissors. Need the right tool for the right job.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Obviously this was a stand-up kind of guy.

(I could have sworn I saw this on "The Simpsons" one time, with Chief Wiggum. . . .)
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('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

How did they finally subdue him? With Elmer's Glue?


You will now have to register all cardboard people with the police so that they can avoid further embarrassment.

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Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

Now we have to worry about the cost of recycling all these bandits.

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Wow! I busted out laughing after reading the first sentence!

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Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
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