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Bank robber shows his dark side

Saturday 24 July 2010 00:00 BST
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The force was with a man when he robbed a bank wearing a Darth Vader mask and cape.

Armed with a gun instead of a lightsaber, the man entered a Chase bank branch in Setauket, New York, about 50 miles east of New York City, on Thursday and demanded money.

He fled with an undisclosed sum of cash. The Star Wars' bandit was not alone in his strange garb. This week a man was arrested, suspected of robbing two Manhattan banks with a bunch of flowers and a pot plant.

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