Former MIT professor ‘robs bank,’ films ‘heist’

[jakeXT]

A wacky former MIT professor took cinema verite to a whole new level by robbing a Manhattan bank and recording the heist, authorities said.

Joseph Gibbons, 61, a filmmaker and “visual artist’’ who taught for a decade at one of the world’s most prestigious universities, has gone rogue, robbing banks as part of his latest “art’’ project.

Gibbons was charged on Friday with robbery after allegedly making off with $1,000 from a Capital One branch at Bowery and Grand Street in Chinatown.

While waiting for his arraignment, the eccentric academic boasted to fellow inmates that his crime was for art’s sake.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/10/bank-robber-appears-to-be-screwball-former-professor/

[Turbineguy]

1. $1000.

That was his first mistake. He should have stolen billions.

As Horace Rumpole would say, "Give up your life of crime, you have no talent for it!"