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Photos of TV station robbers released Minister in DUI wreck Legality of Brac paving questioned Near normal hurricane season predicted Children Law takes effect in July Online poll: Large majority support Dart Bill allows for older jurors	Shots fired: Butterfield Bank robbery By: Brian Wright and Sherry Vanwey \| bwright@cfp.ky 24 November 2010 > Comment on this story You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video. Three masked men pulled off a daring bank heist in broad daylight Wednesday. Butterfield security officials told the Caymanian Compass that three men carrying guns walked into the Compass Centre branch just before 11:30am. One of the robbers fired a shot into the ceiling and ordered everyone down onto the ground. The men then demanded cash, and fled with an unspecified amount of money. No one was injured in the incident but several customers and employees were visibly shaken by the ordeal including a pregnant teller who received medical attention at the scene. Check back to www.compasscayman.com for more updates on this story. Share your Comment We welcome your comments on our stories. Comments are submitted for possible publication on the condition that they may be edited. IMPORTANT IDENTITY INFORMATION: You will be able to create a ‘nickname’ which will allow you to remain anonymous, however, whilst we collect login information from you, this information will be kept confidential and only used to contact you directly, if required. We require a working email address - not for publication, but for verification. Please login to comment on our stories. Log In \| Register View Comments Shots fired: Butterfield Bank robbery Posted by big berd on 11/25/2010 7:38:47 AM Wow, finally people are getting it. Just because someone as a shirt on, with a patch that says "security" does not mean, they are security guards. They are armed with flashlights and insults. Might as well call them janitors without brooms. Infact, a broom would be a better weapon than thier flashlights! "security guards" can't guard anything without weapons. But it seems that the police can't even have weapons. Here is an idea. Just for the heck of it. Why not disband the "armed police unit" and just pair off with a police squad car, unarmed officer. So you have one unarmed driver, and an armed police passenger. Response times would be much quicker. And you have the perfect pairing. If it's domestic. The driver handles it. With the armed officer as backup. If it's an armed conflict. The armed officer deals with it, and has the driver as backup. Maybe that is too much rocket science thinking right there, so forget about it. So yes, hire people who will watch your money get stolen. Makes sense to me. *Rolls eyes. agree ( 11 ) disagree ( 1 ) Shots fired: Butterfield Bank robbery Posted by Wes on 11/24/2010 8:59:31 PM It is sad to see such a wonderful and peaceful little island reach such a state. I am not sure how many security guards are on duty each day around George Town and thru out the island, but I would venture to say that in all, the sum paid to watch the doors and be perhaps the first to see a thief or a robber assault a business amount to many thousands of dollars. These individuals posted as security guards have not one, but both hands tied bihind them when a heist such as the two recent bank robberies occur. It maybe agaist the english laws for policemen as well as security personel to carry guns, but without some type of ammunition to protect themselves and the properties which they are hired to guard am afraid they will continue to be just number added to the victims of these reckless incidents. I trust that those responsable for trying to deprive our country of our cherished heritage will take a step back in time and take stock of where we were and where we are, and much more troubling where we are headed. God bless our little islands. agree ( 12 ) disagree ( 1 )


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