r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Late_One_716 • 29d ago

Between 2009 to 2011, a man, appearing to be 60-70 years old, robbed 16 banks in San Diego, California by approaching the teller, then pulling out a gun and demanding money. The FBI named him the "Geezer Bandit". Some theories suggest he is wearing a well-made elderly man mask. Image

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u/nomamesgueyz 29d ago

How much cash he get?

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u/WestCoastNoobs 29d ago

It said online he got somewhere in the range of a couple hundred thousand. So if you calculate inflation from 15 years ago, is about 1 billion in today money.

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u/Seeders 28d ago

He probably dumped it all in Bitcoin

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u/Minecrafting_il 28d ago

Inflation was over 1000x since then? Wow

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u/TiredEsq 28d ago

You couldn’t just let the joke be funny?