Boston Bank Robbers: American Design

A Story by Abishai100

The 'Pirates' are bank-robbers in Boston planning a diamond-heist of an evil baron's safe-box with some urban dialogue.

An homage to Boston, inspired by the excellent film The Town (Ben Affleck). Stay safe (and thanks for reading!),

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Americans love Boston, and it's because is the traffic-hub of New England, home of the Bulls, Bears, and Blackhawks. It's an area of incredible schools like Harvard, MIT, and Boston University. It's also where a team of bank robbers called the Pirates are planning a special heist of a bunch of diamonds stored in a special bank controlled by a ruthless terrorism-financing baron named Dollar.

DOLLAR (Baron): If anyone misplaces my sacred gems from Boston, I'll make sure terrorism is abound for their doom!

Nevertheless, despite all this focused fury forwarded by the fortuitous Boston-baron Dollar, the three bank robbers who've formed a special diamond-heist team are known as the 'Pirates' and seek to perform a modern-day outlaw-heroism, in the style of Robin Hood. The three Boston thieves are not American-born but are indeed US citizens and two of them studied at Harvard. The third is a recent immigrant from Thailand.

PIRATES: We'll be marching into the Boston bank with Dollar's baron-diamonds in costumes/masks and with water-uzis.

The Pirates' water-uzis on the day of the 'Dollar-Heist' are fitted with internal thin glass tubes holding corrosive acid. They take one of the bank guardsman hostage the night before the heist, threatening to stalk him with their friends if he doesn't cooperate the following-day, the heist-day. The Pirates walk in wearing costumes/masks and claim to be theater-performers, and the trained (hostage) guard pulls out a hidden video-camera and begins filming the circus-show inside the bank, informing the bank manager and customers that all is fine, as the Pirates parade their water-uzis and begin dancing around and singing songs about the famous Boston-baron Dollar!

BANK MANAGER: We're not prepared for this kind of 'circus-stunt' and had no idea how Dollar worked with our guardsman!

The Boston police meanwhile have been delayed with a prank-insider call placed by one of the Pirates, informing the station that there's a huge terrorist threat, a bomb placed in the deep of the Boston River as a seemingly nonviolent gesture against the city's police and water control systems. There's no bomb, of course, but now the majority of the BPD along with river-patrol are busy scouring the river-floor/bed searching for that bomb and avoiding another 9/11 'incident' for bad media.

PIRATES: What's special about Boston is its highlighting of populism movements in anti-tyranny rhetorics.

Of course, many fear this Boston-baron Dollar who is often depicted in social circles and among the youngsters of the vibrant but heavily-trafficked city as a 'ghost-anime' rendition of an anti-hero or noir-bad guy. Sure, perhaps such a baron might be depicted in a noir-dystopian anime/cartoon on MTV about the omens of modern capitalism-lust.

PIRATES: The Boston bank we're staking-out is a rather fine building, so we've got to be very very careful.

As the Pirates perform their circus-act and have the (hostage) guard take them to the safe-box area for the video-recording of a humor-presentation about safe-boxes 'overflowing' with wealthy patrons' jewelry, the customers and managers carry on their daily activities, unknowingly part of this rather 'real' heist.

Once inside the safe-box area, the (hostage) guard opens a few of the safe-boxes to expose some valuables for the media-circus video-recording by the Pirates, while one of the Pirates discreetly uses his 'acid-gun' to burn a hole through baron Dollar's safe-box, containing $20 million Antwerp diamonds.

The Pirates switch Dollar's diamonds with fakes and walk out of the safe-box area and out of the bank and hop onto the Boston subway and deliver an anonymous note to the press, "Let's see if the guardsman hired by baron Dollar has any idea that Interpol-relations are busy investigating his links to modern terrorism-financing!" Such media/press is bad for any baron, regardless of the reach of his urban powers. The Boston subway had proved invaluable to the Pirates' dream of ultimate escape on heist-day.

DOLLAR: I dunno who these circus-performers were, but while my diamonds were insured, my patience ain't!

Baron Dollar orders a terrorist-strike on the heart of the streets of Boston City, and while the press and authorities scramble to arrange sanity out of insanity, the Pirates are long-gone, having fled to Zurich to deposit Dollar's gem-exchanged assets in a new convenient private Swiss account. However, the Pirates send the Herald a letter in Boston reading, "We grieve the impact of the fury of terrorism and pray detections are in-place to determine if Dollar's actually a potential demon!"

DOLLAR: I know nothing about any Boston misgivings and am busy with some new creative Coronavirus art employments.

In response, the Pirates send the Herald an anonymous comic-book children's stick-figure doodle of Batman and Leatherface (DC Comics) in response to this 'so-called' philanthropy-gesture of Coronavirus art created by Baron Dollar. All's fair in press-and-war.