| Blinded In Las Vegas |
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 Pablo Edronkin
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This is not the story of someone who lost everything in Las Vegas, but of a blind bank robber. Las Vegas is one of those places where myths and legends are born, but there are also true stories that are so incredible that would be tales if not for actual proof that they happened, and one of those is that of a certain Robert Toye, who was a bank robber and fraudsters who lived in Las Vegas, whose main peculiarity wasn't that he gambled every thing on a casino, or he had a fortune or was a member of the mafia. Mr. Toye was almost completely blind, and his handicap proves that really, nothing is impossible: this man learned the trade of bank robbery while serving time for fraud, in a prison, of course. When he got out, he moved to Sin City and started his brand new career almost immediately. He knew that banks that had insurance policies against robbery instructed their employees not to resist any assault and to leave that work for the police outside the bank premises. So, using his very limited vision - he could only see shadows and light blobs - he always managed to get into the target bank and into a queue. When he reached the cashier, he gave that person a paper note where it usually said that the bank was being robbed and not to resist. Very simple indeed, and very effective, for the bank tellers always surrendered the cash and Mr. Toye literally, walked away. Before he got caught by the police, he pulled his stunt more than a dozen times. |
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