Comments on: Bodybuilder Performs Smackdown on Serial Bank Robber [-y suspect] http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bodybuilder_performs_smackdown_on_serial_bank_robber_-y_suspect/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:10:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andy http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bodybuilder_performs_smackdown_on_serial_bank_robber_-y_suspect/comment-page-1/#comment-143120 Andy Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:37:14 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/08/bodybuilder_performs_smackdown_on_serial_bank_robber_-y_suspect/#comment-143120 He "didn't see the robber holding a weapon", so he decided to take him on. That's not being a "good member of society", that's being stupid. I have no problem with a Good Samaritan intervening in order to stop an assault or arson or something that's about to cause greivous injury. But nobody should be encouraged to risk their neck to stop a few 1's and 0's from being pushed around on a spreadsheet somewhere. Bank robbers, believe it or not, do eventually get caught, even without "heroics" at the teller. He "didn't see the robber holding a weapon", so he decided to take him on.

That's not being a "good member of society", that's being stupid. I have no problem with a Good Samaritan intervening in order to stop an assault or arson or something that's about to cause greivous injury. But nobody should be encouraged to risk their neck to stop a few 1's and 0's from being pushed around on a spreadsheet somewhere.

Bank robbers, believe it or not, do eventually get caught, even without "heroics" at the teller.

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