A man sits on a chair under a spotlight, smoking a cigarette and holds on to a bundle of money in his free hand. He smiles to the audience and giggles before taking another drag on his fag, the smoke wafting in the air before disappearing in the air. He speaks.
Man
You see this cash? All of this? Heh, you wouldn't believe how i got this amount, yet believe how I come to claim this cash I have in my hands.
I will be honest with every single one of you. I am a robber, a thief who takes against one's own will and benefit no one else but myself. However, there come's an art with what I do, a certain skill of manipulating. It is not just people I deceive but I manipulate a series of events and flaws that will somehow lead itself to your benefit. That is your art, your homework on working out how to get it and getting away with it. Armed robberies are a cliche' and it doesn't take much to achieve a mere $175 that I have in my possession right now.
How I got all of this? I'll tell you.
The situation was simple and the key lies in how you make a person forget you and not remember you as the same person who fucked you up in the first place. A simple store manager sees different face every single day and he cannot remember every single one of them unless you're a familiar. The probability of him remembering who the hell you are a lot less than him getting right amount of change so I found opportunity in manipulating the situation.
What do I do? I beat the hell out of him and makes sure he doesn't get the opportunity of him identifying me as his attacker and robber. This eliminates a particular flaw that i counted on in the first place. I foresaw the involvement of witnesses in such a public place but as soon as i made him forget who the hell i was with a simple disguise and get the hell out of there. The events would fall into places and i get shy out with as much cash that i can get out with.
Then a customer comes in.
When a third party comes in, it becomes a game because he was the unpredictable variable that you can't really count on. He would figure out your manipulated situations and suspect that something is wrong. What do I do? What can I possibly steer away from any suspicion that arouses from my manipulation?
Act normal.
He asked me where the drinks and condoms were and I showed him the aisle that showed the drinks and the condom. Another customer comes in starting to browse on the magazines and I shooed him off telling him that this ain't a library. I made transactions, I made smiles. Acting normal was the only way to keep the manipulation from arousing suspicion. I gave myself an alias called Chuck and kept on going for at least 30 minutes. The guy i beat up even came out from his stupor but he was so beat up that he didn't recognize me and i asked him if he was alright. Everything was going well and i landed myself $175 in total.
Of course, I forgot about the security cameras around the shop. I got caught and now hear I am, waiting for the slammer for armed robbery, but still, it wasn't about the attack of the clerk or the smart tactics that ran through my head as I steered head long into this venture. Its all in the art of a thief and the art of manipulation of a certain series of events.
Black out
