The "new" service economy

makes it so there are a lot of displaced people out there.

A man who couldn't find steady work came up with a plan to make it through the next few years until he could collect Social Security: He robbed a bank, then handed the money to a guard and waited for police.

Bowers said he had been able to find only odd jobs after the drug wholesaler he made deliveries for closed in 2003. He walked to a bank and handed a teller a note demanding cash in an envelope.

Bowers handed the money to a security guard standing in the lobby and told him it was his day to be a hero.