You can’t rob ATMs, buildings

 
By Gene Owens
Published: January 13, 2009

Wayne Mills of Oklahoma City is a retired police officer who wishes people would stop trying to rob buildings, ATMs and vending machines.

The guilty parties are often members of the news media, particularly headline writers. To say someone broke into a coin-operated laundry in the wee hours of the morning and "robbed it” of $50 in change makes no more sense that saying an elderly woman was burglarized in...


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