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July 31, 2008 / Brooklyn news / Bay Ridge

What a drag for Ridge bank

By Jessica Firger

for The Brooklyn Paper

What a drag!

The Sovereign Bank on Fifth Avenue was robbed (again) on July 28 — and this time, the culprit was a transvestite!

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Cops say that the branch at 75th Street suffered its fourth robbery of the year, but what was different this time was the crook’s choice of attire: he not only donned women’s clothing and a wig, but also wore fake breasts.

Those prosthetics were, apparently, his only weapons.

According to police, the would-be “Victor-Victoria” star entered the bank at around 3:30 pm and approached the teller with a note demanding cash.

The teller handed over an undisclosed amount — cops say it was under $1,000 — and the she-robber left.

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You can’t even get a real boob job with that amount.

Cops are searching for the man (woman). Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD’s hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.

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Reader Feedback

Michael from Bay Ridge says:

The tone of this article really makes it seem as though transvestism was the crime, not robbing the bank. There is no need to put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence :

and this time, the culprit was a transvestite!

and furthermore refering to the robber as a 'would be "Victor-Victoria" star' is frankly innappropriate.
Just to nit-pick a little Victor-Victoria was about a woman who pretended to be a drag queen, not about a male transvestite.

July 31, 2008, 9:39 am

Gersh Kuntzman (Brooklyn Paper) from Editor says:

Not to nit-pick either, but there was plenty of male transvestitism in "Victor-Victoria." The reference was an homage, not an attack on the film.

And how could you not put an exclamation mark on that sentence? A bank was robbed by a transvestite! Oops, I did it again!

Thanks for reading.

GERSH

July 31, 2008, 10:51 am

Michael from Bay Ridge says:

Hi Gersh,

I'll give that the exclamation point is a debatable matter, but I really think that the tone of this piece was inappropriate.

I never implied that you attacked the film Victor Victoria, I only said that I think this article seemed nasty towards transvestites. On the Victor-Victoria matter, you call the robber 'the would-be “Victor-Victoria” star '. The star of Victor Victoria was Julie Andrews - who in the film was a woman pretending to be a transvestite. Perhaps you are implying that the robber was a woman disguised as a male transvestite? :-)

Aug. 7, 2008, 11:03 am

johnny boy from windsor terrace says:

if caught, who would do the time, victor or victoria ?

April 6, 2011, 9:38 pm

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