Part of a health campaign?
This just highlights the importance of getting your flu jab.
A wannabe US bank robber failed dismally to relieve an Alabama bank of its cash since the teller simply could not understand what on earth he was saying. According to The Birmingham News, the blagger entered the Compass Bank in eastern Birmingham last Friday lunchtime, "walked up to a teller and tried to explain that he wanted …
probably was speaking some Louisiana slang that no one seems to understand although it was 'bama....maybe he was an Auburn fan trying to make a "withdrawl" at a bank in Tuscaloosa....yes that last bit is something us Yanks that watch college football in the states would know about...
<< "...but being in Alabama the teller wouldn't be able to understand anything more sophisticated than Buford T Justice. >>
Nope, you've got it entrely backwards... It was Buford T. Justice having a go. Bank tellers actually have to be understood, whilst lawdogs often find it advantageous, or at least no handicap, to be uninteligible.
Real life experience:
I worked a Lieutenant, in the Nav, who came from Al'bammy. His accent was so damned thick that we had to have a Filipino CPO translate his statements for us.
You have visit the deep south to fully understand. Its not English.It worse then some of those bastardize Brit accents welll maybe not :). Gets coat now. If don't live in that town you wont understand a single word. For god sakes don't ask t hem to spell it. THat assumes a few things . One they can read and write. Two that they can spell in English..
This would be a perfect goodie for the Tonight show's "Headlines" segment. There have been others like this before. One that comes to mind is the teller that sent the would be robber back to spell the note correctly.
For those not in the USA (or where the Tonight show is played), it is a late night show that frequently finds humor it the most normal of places. The "headlines" segment shows silly stories and then comments on them. Some are misprints, others can be adjacent stories.
As for the writers strike, the late night shows here in the USA are currently in re-runs (normally produced the same day) till it ends.
Who needs security guards and law enforcement officials in general if you have tellers like that. I think she should get a sizable cash award for her actions above and beyond the call of duty, and making one more criminal look like an idiot. I wish we had people like that in south africa.
i must admit i don't understand this story. If he was impossible to understand then how do we know he was trying to rob the place ? If he had a gun or some other threatening weapon the teller would understand it was a robbery even if he spoke no English at all. Sounds more like a disgruntled citizen wanting to sort out a banking issue which they totally failed to handle.
tsk Americans. :)
Truth be told, I've been to Alabama and some of their accents even I, a good old boy from the South, can't understand. Once, I had tell me about his truck: "My lights are 'coon eyed." Slur the words together into one long word, that is the way he sounded. And I didn't have a clue what he was saying. But I finally figured out the words, but not the meaning.
So to be fair, I believe this story. People in Alabama ain't got a Forrest Gump accent. I'm sure the robber was just plum frustrated.