It’s mid-morning in Monroe, Washington, when a man walks into the bank and announces: "This is a stickup. Give me all the money and nobody gets hurt. You can forget about the bait money."

In just a few minutes, the robber is out of the bank carrying the stolen money in his lunch box. The "bait money" he referred to is a pack of money that’s packaged and rigged with a small charge that explodes, emitting tear gas and colored dye marker.

Minutes later the cops arrive at the bank in force and begin questioning tellers who witnessed the robbery. "He was wearing a blue shirt with a yellow vest, and he had on safety goggles and a respirator mask," according to each of the tellers. "One more thing." the head teller says, "He put the money in a lunch box."

"This is gonna be easy," the cops must be thinking with such a detailed description of the culprit. At least you’d think that, wouldn’t you? Doesn’t work out that way.

Less than 10 minutes after the cops get there, a dozen men show up at the corner outside the bank. Each man is wearing a blue shirt with a yellow vest, safety goggles and a respirator mask.

The men are quickly surrounded by cops, then questioned individually. Turns out each of these men is answering an internet employment ad from Craigslist calling for road workers to "meet outside the bank ready to go to work — must wear a blue shirt with a yellow vest, safety goggles and a respirator mask — bring your own lunch."

The cops look inside all of the lunch boxes and find nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and bananas. According to the Seattle (Wash.) Times the bank robber is still at large.