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I work on the 14th floor of the 15-story Chase Bank building in downtown Shreveport. I'm a runner for a law-firm, which basically means I do most of the bitch work (ironically, I pretty much never actually run files around...I just catalogue and close old files for transport to the archives.) I carpool with Stafford, my best friend, we switch cars weekly...you would too, if parking in the garage was 7 bucks a day.
We got to work early and no-one was there so we clocked in at 7:00 (we got there at 8 so there's an extra $6.50)
We do some filing for about an hour and we go back upstairs, and our boss asks us to take down the money from the coke machine and some deposits to Chase Bank, which is conveniently 13 stories below. So we toss the coins into an old filing box (jesus christ those fuckers drink alot of coke, the bags weighed 70 or 80 pounds each) and then the box of checks and whatnot on top of that.
We wheel the dolly down the hall, and as we're leaving through the front office and entering the freight elevator, our boss comes running through and pretty much tackles us out of the elevator. Naturally we sort of freaked out but then he informed us that thirteen stories below, the Chase Bank was being robbed. Sure enough, we head to my office and look out the window and bam, 7 cop cars are down there, and as we watch, a firetruck, three or four unmarked cars, more cop cars, and a SWAT van all pull up.
The situation diffuses pretty quickly. The bank is on the second floor, the first floor of the building is a lobby, with escalators leading to the Bank floor. It's sort of weird so bear with me...but there's a coffeeshop in the lobby as well, tiny as hell, because it was built by removing one "wall" of sliding doors and then adding two massive panes of glass and a door, forming a glass/brick cube. Pretty good place, I used to date the owner's daughter. Anyways, one of the tellers was eating lunch at a table inside the lobby but outside the coffeehouse, he saw the banker run down the escalator and tackled him. We saw them fall onto the pavement, the cops were on them.
And then an hour later we watched Demi Moore and Kevin Costner film a movie on top of our parking garage...Demi drove an Audi, Costner an Escalade. Ashton Kutcher was there, driving a Kia...I'm guessing because NO movie star drives a Kia, so he wouldn't be mobbed by people.
So that's pretty much it. I sat around and made 7 bucks an hour by doing so.
We got to work early and no-one was there so we clocked in at 7:00 (we got there at 8 so there's an extra $6.50)
We do some filing for about an hour and we go back upstairs, and our boss asks us to take down the money from the coke machine and some deposits to Chase Bank, which is conveniently 13 stories below. So we toss the coins into an old filing box (jesus christ those fuckers drink alot of coke, the bags weighed 70 or 80 pounds each) and then the box of checks and whatnot on top of that.
We wheel the dolly down the hall, and as we're leaving through the front office and entering the freight elevator, our boss comes running through and pretty much tackles us out of the elevator. Naturally we sort of freaked out but then he informed us that thirteen stories below, the Chase Bank was being robbed. Sure enough, we head to my office and look out the window and bam, 7 cop cars are down there, and as we watch, a firetruck, three or four unmarked cars, more cop cars, and a SWAT van all pull up.
The situation diffuses pretty quickly. The bank is on the second floor, the first floor of the building is a lobby, with escalators leading to the Bank floor. It's sort of weird so bear with me...but there's a coffeeshop in the lobby as well, tiny as hell, because it was built by removing one "wall" of sliding doors and then adding two massive panes of glass and a door, forming a glass/brick cube. Pretty good place, I used to date the owner's daughter. Anyways, one of the tellers was eating lunch at a table inside the lobby but outside the coffeehouse, he saw the banker run down the escalator and tackled him. We saw them fall onto the pavement, the cops were on them.
And then an hour later we watched Demi Moore and Kevin Costner film a movie on top of our parking garage...Demi drove an Audi, Costner an Escalade. Ashton Kutcher was there, driving a Kia...I'm guessing because NO movie star drives a Kia, so he wouldn't be mobbed by people.
So that's pretty much it. I sat around and made 7 bucks an hour by doing so.
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