Chapter 3: The Robbers
Norco 80
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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George Smith didn't set out to rob a bank. He just wanted to survive the apocalypse.
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| 0:16.6 | Music LAS Studios. |
| 0:30.5 | A quick warning. |
| 0:31.7 | Some of the series includes descriptions of violence. |
| 0:35.9 | Last week on Norco, AD. |
| 0:38.5 | Three hundred fifty to self-based or stranded or vehicles disabled at N-9-4. |
| 0:43.9 | You got killed at the bank. |
| 0:45.4 | Billy. |
| 0:46.3 | Billy. |
| 0:47.1 | What was his last name? |
| 0:48.3 | Delgado. |
| 0:48.9 | Billy Delgado. |
| 0:50.6 | He was the driver of the van. |
| 0:52.8 | And one of my best friends, yes. |
| 0:56.8 | On May 9th 1980, Sharon Dickens remembers being terrified when masked robbers burst into the bank where she worked as a teller. |
| 1:05.8 | The only thing that I can remember thinking was just do as he says, do as he says, giving what he wants, |
| 1:12.3 | because that's what they taught us in training. Don't try and be a hero. |
| 1:18.2 | After the robbers left the bank and the fear faded, Sharon learned from the police that the robbers |
| 1:23.7 | weren't random armed strangers. One of them, George Smith, was actually her neighbor. |
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