Former Bank Robber Breaks Down 9 More Bank Heists In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Cain Vincent Dyer, a former bank robber, breaks down the realism of group bank heists, as well as armored car and ATM robberies, in "Point Break" (1991), with Keanu Reeves; "The Town" (2010), starring Ben Affleck; and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017), with Tom Holland and Zendaya. He looks at the safety protocols of banks and law enforcement when dealing with bank robberies in "2 Guns" (2013), with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; "Hell or High Water" (2016), with Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges; "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" S4E21 (2017); and "Ambulance" (2022), with Jake Gyllenhaal. Dyer also explains the damage caused by robbing banks in "American Heist" (2014), with Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody; and "Heaven's Burning" (1997).
Dyer served in the United States Marine Corps. He initially turned to bank robbery after threats to his family by a Mexican cartel, but after paying off the debt, he continued to rob banks for personal gain. He says he robbed over 100 banks across California between 1999 and 2001. He eventually turned himself in and served nine years in prison after pleading guilty to six robberies. He now works as a life coach and motivational speaker, working with victims of violent crime and helping newly released prisoners reintegrate into society.
Correction: At 01:06 the expert said that armored car truck guards are trained to shoot back in the event of an attack. The protocol actually depends on the laws of each state, and the armored car company.
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Former Bank Robber Rates 9 More Bank Heists In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
I'm honestly expecting at this point to get a "former serial killer breaks down serial killers in movies"
😂 I know right?
Ed Kemper
What is the limit? Why not learn about every crime?
Yeah it’s sad how criminals get promoted and air time over many different people whom have huge world wide impact on society for the good not bad like this clown.
@@xinpingdonohoe3978expanding your portfolio skills hey?.
I have to give the guy credit for not acting like he didn't do wrong because he never physically harmed anyone, and addressed the psychological trauma he caused to customers / tellers. It's something you very rarely hear former bank robbers actually address. Good on him.
How many former bank robbers are you hearing from?
@@EikottXDyeah exactly.
Well this guy isn't the only dude doing these styles of videos, there's alot of others.
Larry lawson also mentioned how he felt wrong. He was a jewelry thief though
well he turned himself in from the guilt once he realized he caused many witnesses serious trauma so that's why he points it out in the first place.
I was an armored car driver. We absolutely were NOT trained to shoot at people to defend money. We were trained to defend OURSELVES, but only if absolutely necessary. Otherwise, the money is insured and we would give it up in a heartbeat if someone got the drop on us.
Ahh nothing gets in the way of the media getting a little entertainment out there… even if it does end up hurting people down the road. What do they care…
that's also the legal requirement, right? you can only shoot if you're in personal danger? i imagine there's a lot of crossover with armed vehicle robberies, assuming they involve gunfire while the vehicle is moving.
Indeed Sir, as a collègue from Belgium this is the same here
Not in South Africa then I suppose?
I assume that kind of thing varies from country to country
The town is absolute gem not just the robbery but the story, music and actors 10/10 rewatchable all the time.
It is a great movie. I wish they had included Heat in this line up.
Great entertainment but I hated the Stockholm Syndrome element. Cheap and gross
@@dougsampson3621 I think heat is in part 1
I actually just watched that movie when I was on a long flight a few months ago. Never heard of it or anything, it was just there as an option and I went for it and it was absolutely amazing!
Den of Theives
I've never heard a bank robber address the trauma they have caused people before. God bless him.
How many other bank robbers have you seen?
two i know personally. both solo's like him. never asked either of them whether they felt remorse back then and it was 30 years ago so they don't talk about it anymore and would be rude for me to bring up. @@EikottXD
@@EikottXD6.
@@tekodoraudor 7
@@EikottXDbro how many more times are you gonna write this reply
I worked in a bank for years. The first sentence of the first day of robbery training is. Let them have it. The money is insured and no one needs to play the role of hero. If someone tries to engage the robber(s) they will actually get in a lotbof trouble because the whole point is to get them out of the building
Hard to believe that Brooklyn 99 isn’t a true and faithful depiction of crime, or police work.
I beg to differ, I know two detectives (not Americans though) who are exactly the same as Santiago, minus the looks. :))
I remember a former submarine sailor who once joked that the fucked up stuff in Down Periscope is what he considers the most accurate description of his job, so it all depends, 🤣
I mean the whole idea was to give humor to their story. So what if its not like Law & Order or CSI. Not every show is going to be a true depiction of a story.
@@justincoleman7856 kind of the point of their comment.
kinda like how medical workers say scrubs is the most accurate hospital tv show@@Iskelderon
I worked in a bank as a teller and in addition to the silent alarm which for us looked like a doorbell attached to the bottom of the desk, some drawers had bait money which was usually a $100 bill in its own pocket in the drawer with a clip holding it down. That bill would have its serial number registered so that if it was used it could be tracked and if it was recovered it would prove the cash came from a robbery. When you would pull it out of the clip it would also trigger the silent alarm. We were never really briefed on all the security measures and there are additional precautions taken that I wont discuss but don't think that you are safe by only taking loose bills.
Makes sense that they wouldn't share every security measure with the tellers. After all, there are many real-life bank robberies that involve either current or former employees.
I worked in a bank. I was locked in the safe for two hours until it auto-unlocked while I counted the money they had- it was a small co-op. They only had $70,000 and this was in 1995- that was sht all money even then.
Ours was in a separate band, I always thought it would be super obvious that a strap had only 2 $50 bills or 1 $100 bill…they told up to try and slip it off before handing the money over but that also felt hard to do in a scary or stressful situation
I worked at a credit union as a teller for a couple months and I remember the bait money too. Ours was same amount of money but in denominations of 20.
@@gracelynnblackwere you ever scared of being a hostage?
I now have a sudden urge to rob a bank, thank you Insider!
Good luck
how'd it go
@@ragegaze3482I don't think he made it 😢
Did you make it out?
As a "scriptwriter" myself I have taken some notes that I will use in my next "big budget movie production". Thanks
Where will you get the budget?
If you need any "actors" let me know (I'm in serious debt to the mafia )
@@TheAnglan bank robbery
@@ISimulacraaa some of my early work was featured in a Netflix documentary
Let us know how you do at the "boxoffice"!
Yo, this guy. Can he do some video game bank heists in the next one. Maybe have him play some Payday.
😅😅😅😊a2l0
Pay Day is a heist game? Plays like any other fps game with way too many enemies that just keeps coming
@@whoeveriam0iam14222if you play it like an fps Ur playing wrong. I completed every mission on max difficulty full stealth mode, it's way more fun this way
I get a feeling this guy would get REALLY into Payday 2 lol. You'd find him a few months later, all skinny and sunken in and hunched over a computer screen lol
The Pacific standard heist from gta online
He is one of those guys I wanna have a beer with and just listen to his stories. Not just the heists but also the entire context. I dont think heists are fascinating but the big picture is.
you say not the heists but i bet the heist stories are amazing when he's not on camera
There's a Guardian article interviewing him that I have cued up for this precise reason
He’s a great storyteller, as well. I enjoy his description of specific situations from the movies that he’s experienced first-hand.
You don't think heists are interesting? Wrong video lil dude
If memory serves, I believe that the producers of The Town consulted former bank robbers and asked them how to make their robbery scenes more relativistic and what to do before and after a robbery.
... more realistic* ...
Yeah, that was a typo on my part. Thanks. LOL!!!@@einundsiebenziger5488
You're actually correct. One of the co-producers met with actual former bank robbers who were in jail to get a better understanding of what its like to rob a bank. So yes they were actually smart enough to do enough research in order to make the movie as authentic as possible.
Yeah I peeped that especially the pre job scrub n the gas baths 💯💯💯
These new Skillshare classes are getting out of hand…
I would like him to comment on more subtle robberies, like "Out of Sight (1998)" with Clooney's character sweet talking it undetected. Even more interesting, but possibly out of his expertise, would be to comment about "cat burglar" style heist. In, out, no one even knows the theft took place.
yeah it would be really cool to see those
He actually did comment on "Out Of Sight" during the first video he did for Insider 2 years ago.
@@LordComradeBearthank you! About to go check that out now
I worked at a bank. The craziest thing that happened was this one crazy guy who tried to steal an ATM with one of those bobcat forklift things. He picked it up clear from the ground, completely detaching it, then just drove off with it. You would think, o they probably found him because of the tracking device or cameras, hahaha nope. The guy hit the sidewalk curve on his way out, the ATM tipped, he panicked and just drove off on the forklift. I heard it took the cops less than 10 minutes to pull him over and catch him. It would have been less but the guy led them in a low speed chase. Surprise surprise, the guy was seriously intoxicated. I laughed so hard when I came into work the next day.
We witnessed a bank robbery when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. My mom drove up to the front and could see everyone inside laying on the ground and one dude with a gun walking around, she called 911 and we got tf out of there.
I always don't get the people that just watch those robberies or try to be the heroes. You don't know if the robbers are crack heads and will shoot anyone, or what they will do.
Snitches get stitches
@@BabyJesus66though he clearly has not gotten stitches yet. Might want to re-think that belief. Most snitches in fact do not get stitches. That’s just facts.
@@colton88 do you know his medical history?
@@BabyJesus66 seems to be just fine considering he is writing this. “Snitches” rarely face any consequences for being an informant unless they’re in a gang lol.
Missing out the bank scene from Heat is an absolute crime
I was looking forward to Heat and was disappointed too.
its in the first episode he did! just look for the original one. @@scottamano1259
Its in his first video. This is part 2
@@rickysanftner4537^^^
*Missing out the bank scene from Heat is an absolute “robbery”
I think it’s its own crime in itself that he didn’t watch the one of the robbery scenes from HEAT Come tf on, the armored truck at the beginning? The metal grabbing in the warehouse? The bank shootout?! There’s so many scenes he can react to in that one masterpiece of a movie 😭
Totally agreed. Heat is a glaring omission and would blow all others on this list out of the water.
It's in the first video he did a while back: Fgvdl87lqc8
This review is a part 2, he actually reviewed Heat in part 1 :)
Lmao dunces. The only crime here is you dont watch part1 and blame.
Yep I'm definitely gonna rob a bank now. Thanks for all the tips.
If you need a partner, I'm down. It's on my bucket list.
I can drive
I'm a mean crowd controller, i'm your guy
@@garrisonfjordbetter watch some Larry Lawton first
Read up on the typical take from a bank robbery. It’s chump change especially if you have to split it. Wouldn’t even get enough to pay rent for 6 months in any city worth living in
This guy had an incredible lawyer lol
He had to snitch on someone there’s no way he definitely a Confidential Informant
The Town is easily one of the best heist movies ever made, easily in my top 10 movies ever
The article from his sentencing said (according to court records) that he DID tell customers to get on the ground. I’m so glad he turned his life around, hopefully his story will help others!
He robbed over 100 so I'm sure he refined his methods when he realized that wasn't ideal.
The LA Times article doesn't state where that specific summary comes from. Usually they say, "according to court records," or "according to prosecutors." So while the author may have accurately described the information they received, the source of that information can say a lot as well. Having worked for a felony criminal court judge, that information may be one sentence selected from the abundant court records. One sentence in a prosecutor's proffer that he gleaned from police reports. The prosecutor at plea may not even be describing one of his own cases, he may be covering for a peer (happened every day before the judge I worked for). Maybe it is selected from the judge's comment. Or from the pre sentence report. If a defendant objects to that sentence, that it is inaccurate, where would an objection to a single fact be noted? Often a defendant's response/objection is tucked away inside an interview in 20 off pages of a PSR. And the accuracy of whether victims are told to lie on the ground is not important enough to either the PSR writer or the judge (or the article author) to affect the recommendation of sentence (PSR writer), actual sentence (judge), or story (author of article). Even the defense attorney would tell the defendant to not worry about a misstatement (if it was) that he told people to lay on the floor, as it isn't realistic to get 100% of the facts accurate throughout a trial. Especially when everyone's focus, especially the defendant in this case, was on remorse and turning his life around. Is he going to withdraw his plea just because this fact was false? Just because he never told people to get in the ground? No. Accept it all, take the great deal and supervised release.
I can't imagine how the contact list of the guy from insider calling all the movie reviewer be like- assassin, Robber, mob, thief 😂😂😂
That person is 100% on a government list. 😆
I had never thought of this before but now I cant stop picturing his cell phone contacts 😂
I am very interested about more tips about Bank heists, I mean in more analysis of Bank heists. You never will when you will need some of them.....
"Whatever you choose to be in life, be a good one." lol
Dude didn’t even get caught. He turned himself in, crazy
He turned himself in because he was about to be caught...that's how it works.
@@justinlast2lastharder749you know this for sure?
@@justinlast2lastharder749source?
What a jovial personality. he really seemed to have loved his job lol
Got bored with not getting caught so he turned himself in
I really wish he would have covered Inside Man! That is by far my favorite bank heist movie because it’s so drawn out and calculated.
IIRC correctly, for writing the Town, they spend a lot of the time with old-timer bank robbers in Boston to nail it down. Wasn't a bad move apparently
The most famous bank robbery money wasnt in here???? HEAT
17:30 They won't hate on the low score but will crucify him for mixing the 2 fandoms 😂
Damn i was waiting for The Dark Knight and Babydriver
I love this guy. He's such a surreal character who's clearly matured well given all he's been through. More vids with CVD!!!
The Town is one of my favs
When I worked at the North Carolina State Employees' Credit Union, we had alarm switches in each drawer that would activate if you took out the last $100 bill of the till, and the clip would be hidden by the rest of the bills stacked on top of it. There was also a silent alarm at every desk and teller station in the building. If we were robbed, we were instructed to not pull the $100 bill to activate the alarm and to tell the robber it was there if they asked for the last bill. We were only allowed to pull it if it was obvious that was the last thing they were taking. Of course, that was between 2007 and 2009, so that all could be different by now.
Why would they tell you not to activate a silent alarm when being robbed it’s don’t make sense.
@@logical_evidence because if they were still in the building when the cops came, you'd be creating a potential hostage situation. We were instructed to activate silent alarms after the perpetrator exited the building to avoid hostage situations, and so we could observe their vehicle and direction of travel.
I did federal time,and the amount of bank robbers in there was insane.
Imagine being a bank robber and now you gets paid to talk about bank robberies for a living.
“gets paid” Was paid…once for the video. Money is a finite resource, nothing is forever.
Thank you for tips my friend
He's back Yesssss
Oh let's go, more from Cain!
Need to get some wood glue on that armrest.
That bank device in heavens burning DOES exist, I have a friends whose dad is head of security for a few banks and he told me a story of someone robbing a bank and that exact thing happening
Pretty interesting topic but you guys need to let the movie bits play out a bit longer instead of him reactin to 5 seconds of it :)
My stepfather here in Australia has worked on those petitions at 6:32. He said as they were taking the bank apart they needed to be extremely careful of it and get to the wires, which in turn were heavily protected. He said it was the longest project he's ever done on a building of that size solely because of how hard it was to actually get to everything.
0:16 Imagine being unsure of the exact number of bank robberies you've committed
Great clip,was hoping to see inside man…
thanks for the advice
12:00 "Give us the gate key." "i have no gate key." "Fezzig, tear his arms off." "Oh, you mean this gate key."
It’s like he misses it 😂
The Town & Den of thieves are in my book of favorite movies!! Always go back to watch those!👏🏾
Point Break is a 10 for the whole film! Nice vid, interesting
He didn't just wake up one day and develop a good concious and say "You know, I should send myself to prison today." They must have been ready to come down on him.
0:16 hang on a minute- you can't just speed past that✋️😭
thanks for the tips
I know it wasn't exactly a BANK robbery, but I'd love to hear his take on the clusterfuck that was the bookies scene in Snatch :D
He’s right about security being there just to be a witness. I worked at a BofA branch that had an armed security officer everyday. Eventually they took his gun, lowered his pay because he’s no longer armed and took his vest. This was area wide. Ridiculous in my opinion
Bofa? U trying to fool us and make us seem like absolute buffoons? Imbeciles? We know what you are doing.
Bofa deez nuts
I was a guard to a BofA Mortgage Office in a secluded area that was always unlocked but alarmed and I triggered the alarm twice a week until I stopped checking the door as unlocked.
This is my all time favorite movie. Nice insight and interesting video
Which one? There were a few!
The town is my all time favorite too
Now we just need Dallas, Hoxton, and Wolf on!
Loved this guy!!!
Should have included the bank robbery scene in Raising Arizona. "Did y'all hear that? We're usin' CODE NAMES!"
Man, literally every kind of person has a voice in the internet age 😂
I would love to see this gentleman do the same thing but for video game bank robberies such as the payday series, gta, etc. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on them.
I was initially thinking this was a re-upload. Thankfully, its not
more than the video itself I'm more curious about how a bank robber is outside the jail😂
The armrest is broken. Grats to the prop guy and the editor. 6:44
I like these "former..." videos. I like how these guys, having done their crimes and did their time, have turned their lives around. This guy seems quite charismatic and likeable.
Ok, how do you commit 100 bank robberies and your out of prison before your 85 and dressing like you have $$$?
*you're "100 bank robberies" "like you have $$$?" Just think a little about your argument@@tommyebay
@@tommyebay By not committing assault in the process. Aggravated robbery carries a more serious sentence than nonaggravated robbery.
Point Break is on my top 10 favorite movies list. One of Gary Bussy's top rolls
I was hoping he was gonna do the Joker in Dark Knight or Public Enemy idk I just enjoyed hearing him talk about this stuff
Bro the Town is so sick. I always tell people it's one of the best heist films. After I watched it I decided I'd watch any film Affleck directs.
Great video but its missing the heat... 😂
Kinda wish they also reacted to Good Time and Wrath of Man in this as well tbh.
Would have loved to of heard him review the bank robbery scene from the movie Heat.
it's in part 1 2 years ago
Should have him do the GTAV Casino Heists
i like this person💖they seem genuine and flawed🌻
He should do the movie Marauders
I think police scanners are pretty easy to get. Its actually completely legal for regulae people to have them.
Guy commits a number of crimes without physically hurting anyone. Realises that what he's doing is still hurting people. Turns himself in, spends 10 years in prison, then chooses to devote his time to helping victims of crimes. Yeah, I can totally see why everyone is calling for him to spend 100 years in prison. The man is clearly irredeemable. No bloody wonder the US has more of it's citizens behind bars per capita than any other country in the world if that's the attitude.
By the sliver of account that I got from his videos, and especially in light of him serving full time and his after actions, he seems to be the poster child for rehabilitation vs recidivism He was a crook and his word will always be suspect, but he does seem to be making genuine amends and as he says, penance. Thats fair. Context is everything, both in his criming and in his healing. He deserves his chance and he's making good on that. All of this is more than can be said for many others, this guy definitely doesn't deserve life or other harsher punishments. He paid the price society demanded, and he's still making payments as his conscious demands. No one else should continue to punish him for deeds done and in the past.
@@stormtempterf8058 Society demanded? No. The flawed and weak "justice" system.
Agreed.
We made slavery illegal but left an exception for prisoners. The culture to justify the bullshit gets built around the ends(slave labor). Give the Murdochs the finger for us
Show us where "everyone is calling form him to spend 100 years in prison". Don't compare the US to your English sh*t wherever you're from. Our societies all have skeletons in the closet. YOU are no better than America. The US has more citizens behind bars because of the legacy of slavery and every emotion that came after it. That is all.
This man absolutely rocks a pink suit
1:57 Hey Insider, change the chair because your next interviewer might fall down.
I think the town is one if the BEST bank robbing movies ever
Surprised you guys didn’t cover Den of Thieves
I freaking loooooove The Town and Ben Affleck is really protective of Boston and its stories so it’s good to see that it’s a legit heist.
😂😂 😂, in my ruffian days as a youth, I used to use the identical plate trick for my misdeeds
Definitely 💯
if you ever have him again, he needs to comment on Inside Man
the town is such a good movie
My cousin took part in a🇨🇭bank robbery in 2005 This dude is a master
who is a master? your cousin or the host? and either way - what has your cousin to do with your opinion?
Where's your cousin now? In jail?
His comments on robbery scenes in Heat and Baby Driver would have been interesting
Those are in the first video he did
That was great! My brother is still in Law Enforcement in Texas, and he told me a story about this guy who stole cars, robbed banks close to highways, but always wore a suit and gave the cashier a rose. He was a real gentleman. IT took them years to catch him and he robbed a LOT of banks. He was even chased a few times and no way they caught him. When they finally did, they asked him why he robbed sho many banks and that he should have been a race car driver. He said, that he was, but kept crashing his cars, so he had to replace them. True story! LOL
It's criminal that Heat was not on this list.
10:53 I transfer from armored truck to bank security because it was closer to home. I am a licensed commissioned guard so I can carry a gun. My company didn't have an armed guard at this bank. We had a "gun" for looks but it was just an airsoft gun. We were there as a deterrent and witness. And the usual security stuff like if someone got out of hand. It shocked me when I started my first day at the bank when I realized the gun was fake.
4:48 Damn, get this man a chair that isnt broken....I think Insider can afford it. Thats just laziness.
Lol I didn't catch that at first. That's hilarious
i had to do a double take, was like yo....one thing is not like the other here...@@douggaudiosi14
Lol😅
A place beyond the pine? Heat?
oh shoots, I'm learning robbery from professional robber in legal way.
His suit jacket is the real crime
I watched the whole video waiting for him to talk about HEAT 😐
I want to see him rate the “7 Things To Do Today” sketch from The Kids in the Hall
How can a video ranking the bank heist movies skip the absolute king of bank heist movies--Heat?