The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 18, May 2, 2004, Article 15

NEITHER LUCKY NOR PRETTY IN PINK

  This Reuters report from Dallas, Texas isn't numismatic in
  itself, but it's amusing and raises the question, "Just what
  happens to all the banknotes that get splattered with dye in
  a foiled bank robbery attempt?  Are they simply returned to
  the Federal Reserve to be destroyed?   Have any found
  their way into numismatic channels?  Of course, there's no
  easy way to authenticate such notes, and they would have
  no premium on the market.  Still, I think it would be interesting
  to to have such a note if the story were known.  Wouldn't it
  be interesting to have one of the notes stolen in a famous
  robbery of the past?   Collectors often wonder what stories
  their acquisitions could tell, if only they could talk.

  "A Texas woman was arrested on Wednesday after a pink
  dye pack attached to money she is suspected of stealing
  from a bank exploded when she took the cash to a different
  bank to open a new account, police said.

  Fort Worth police said Sharon Luck, 43, was arrested on
  suspicion of robbing a bank in the city early on Wednesday,
  after a woman gave a bank teller a threatening note and
  walked out with cash to which the dye pack had been
  attached.

  "When she opened her purse, the dye pack detonated,"

  "Police said she was easy to find because she was covered
  in pink dye."

  To read the full story, see: FullStory

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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