Australian Robin Hood Gave The Best Quotes About Robbing A Bank For $140,000

NYPost – A convicted bank robber recently released from a US prison and deported to Australia has boasted about a heist he pulled off in which he “humiliated those who hate the poor.”

Author Corey Donaldson, from Macclesfield, Australia — who describes himself as “the Robin Hood bank robber” — has returned home after serving a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the US.

In his first Australian interview since his July deportation, Donaldson, 45, told News.com.au he was “God damn proud of what (he) did” in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on December 31, 2012.

As revelers all over the globe prepared to ring in the New Year, Donaldson disguised himself in sunglasses and a cap, then walked into a bank to carry out a “lone wolf style” heist in the ski resort town.

He feigned a South African accent during the holdup in which he told staff that Mexican drug gang cartel members had placed bombs in the snow outside and would blow up the bank and then hunt down and kill the manager if $2 million was not handed over.

The manager — who later needed psychiatric treatment — emptied out the bank’s safe and teller drawers and Donaldson walked away with $140,000 cash. According to Donaldson, the heist lasted an extraordinary 90 minutes.

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I won’t condone breaking the law, but if you are going to do it, you better do it big. And this guy, Corey Donaldson, did it big. He robbed a bank on New Years Eve with a fake South African accent while telling the bank tellers that the Mexican cartel would blow up the bank if they didn’t give him the money. A bit fucked up and traumatic, but again, I said he did it big. And somehow the silent alarm was never touched in the full 90 minutes.

“I was in full view of all the moneychangers, without a single alarm being triggered,” Donaldson said.

“Staff did not know what happened until I was gone.”

His quotes in his first interview since the heist are amazing. He is as proud as possible  and isn’t shy about it either. Straight up bragging about it in the funniest way:

“I secured $140,750 without touching any of it, got away slower than grandma, and stayed away, donating the cash to the needy across three states.”

Donaldson represented himself at his 2013 trial and told the jury he carried out the heist to help the homeless and to protest banks that preyed on customers.

Of course he represented himself. You think this guy would let a lawyer try to downplay what he did?

Absolutely not.

And he finished with:

“I felt compelled to spank the bank,” Donaldson told News.com.au.

And then finally,

“I am the Robin Hood bank robber.”

“Am I proud of what I did?”

“God damn right I am.”