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A bag full of clothes.

posted 10 years ago by uhrdavid
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So, the robbers came into the bank wearing painters clothes. Then they make everyone strip and put their clothes into bags and make them put on identical painters outfits, so as to confuse the coppers. In the end, they find the bags of clothes in the supply closet. Inside of the bags, there would only be enough sets of clothes for the victims, leaving the real bad guys wearing nothing but their skivvies. If they would have attempted to match the clothes to their owners, then they would have been able to narrow down the suspect pool quite a bit.

I mean, I suppose that it's possible that the robbers could have planted extra clothes in the bags... they DID think of everything else, but they never showed it. Not a gripe, per se. Just a thought I had as I was watching the film. They did make it a point to show that crime did turn out to be somewhat victimless, and none of the higher ups were really concerned with anyone taking the fall. More so they just wanted it to go away.

[–] vnse 10 years ago

But even if they hadn't added clothes, how do you match clothes to people exactly? There what, 30 people involved? Take any item of clothing and it probably fits 5 of those 30. It would be impossible to figure out who the people were that didn't have any "street" clothes originally.

[–] Heidi_Smiles 10 years ago

Theoretically they could have asked everyone for detailed descriptions of their clothing items, then match everything to the descriptions, THEN show the witnesses the possible matches and ask them to confirm what's what. That kind of procedure would minimize the chance of the perps getting away with claiming the wrong clothing, and they might catch someone in a lie too.

[–] raf-33 10 years ago

It's likely, almost completely obviously in-your-face likely, that the robbers would have been wearing clothing under their paint gear so every single article of clothing would be matched to someone with no extra clothing articles and no naked people.

The OP is assuming the robbers were naked under their paint gear. I don't know why people make assumptions, they just do I've noticed. It's a weakness bred in a small number of humans, probably planted in us from aliens or some *beep* or a brain mutation caused by cosmic radiation. Chernobyl likely didn't help if radiation is involved.

Ya Kirk-loving Spocksucker!

[–] uhrdavid 9 years ago

It's likely, almost completely obviously in-your-face likely, that the robbers would have been wearing clothing under their paint gear so every single article of clothing would be matched to someone with no extra clothing articles and no naked people

So, in your opinion it's obvious that the robbers would wear clothes underneath their painter's outfit? Well then, that would make them even easier to spot, since EVERYONE ELSE (ie. the regular, innocent folks) would all be naked under their's. Your comment is not only arrogant, but also completely implausible. It gives me a strange satisfaction to read your amateurish opinion.

The OP is assuming the robbers were naked under their paint gear. I don't know why people make assumptions, they just do I've noticed. It's a weakness bred in a small number of humans, probably planted in us from aliens or some *beep* or a brain mutation caused by cosmic radiation. Chernobyl likely didn't help if radiation is involved.

This just makes me laugh.

"We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every *beep* there is an American trying to get out"

[–] shanayneigh 9 years ago

You sound like a real hoot.

Working in the movie business since -92

[–] jnotter 10 years ago

They could have checked other things too! I doubt they all used the same toilet; there could have been traces of DNA in rooms, where it is unlikely the hostages had access too. A whole big CSI unit could have looked for traces, checked where these guys bought the toy guns, etc. But one of the point of the movie is, "nobody breaths down my neck", nobody really wants to solve the case, nobody got seriously hurt, nothing was missing!

[–] GuyOnTheLeft (236) 4 years ago

I’m sure they brought extra clothes.

I’m more wondering how they knew they would have a bosomy hostage. (And I found it confusing to figure out which one was the robber, they looked so similar.)