{"id":19480,"date":"2010-11-10T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2010-11-10T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:38:54","slug":"dumb-dumber-bank-robber-writes-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19480","title":{"rendered":"Dumb &#038; Dumber Bank Robber Writes Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bank-robbery-for-beginners-by-anthony-prince.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bank-robbery-for-beginners-by-anthony-prince.jpg','popup','width=140,height=212,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bank-robbery-for-beginners-by-anthony-prince-tm.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bank-Robbery-For-Beginners-By-Anthony-Prince\" \/><\/a><strong>Anthony Prince<\/strong>, an Australian snowboarder who recently completed four years in prison for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacklunch.com\/oldsacks\/051105.php\" target=\"_blank\">robbing a Vail, Colorado WestStar bank on March 21, 2005<\/a><\/strong>, has now written a book about his experiences titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.borders.com.au\/borders-marketplace\/bank-robbery-for-beginners-a-story-of-criminal-stupidity-and-its-very-serious-consequences\/12886398\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bank Robbery For Beginners: A Story of Criminal Stupidity and its Very Serious Consequences<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the crime Prince and his friend <strong>Luke Carroll<\/strong> were given the name &#8220;the Dumb &#38; Dumber robbers&#8221; for bungling their crime so completely. Now this book tells his side, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/dumb-and-dumber-robber-spills-beans-20101109-17lxi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prince said he hoped he could lose the &#8220;dumb and dumber&#8221; tag. . . &#8220;I&#8217;ve been internationally humiliated for what I&#8217;ve done, so I feel I deserve to tell my side of the story.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abc.net.au\/nsw\/2010\/11\/bank-robbery-for-beginners.html?site=midnorthcoast&amp;program=south_east_nsw_afternoons\" target=\"_blank\">audio interview with Statewide Afternoons&#8217; with Fiona Wyllie<\/a><\/strong> Prince explains it all with surprising eloquence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/dumb-and-dumber-robber-spills-beans-20101109-17lxi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abc.net.au\/nsw\/2010\/11\/bank-robbery-for-beginners.html?site=midnorthcoast&amp;program=south_east_nsw_afternoons\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>, via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvail.com\/blog\/252\/Dumb-and-Dumber-snowboarding-bank-robber-writes-book-about-Vail-debacle\" target=\"_blank\">Real Vail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Prince, an Australian snowboarder who recently completed four years in prison for robbing a Vail, Colorado WestStar bank on March 21, 2005, has now written a book about his experiences titled Bank Robbery For Beginners: A Story of Criminal Stupidity and its Very Serious Consequences. At the time of the crime Prince and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19488,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions\/19488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}