Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 28, 2021

Elwood, you’re very good at math…..

sounds about right.

I’m guessing you put the money in a term deposit.

and he had no interest in that…

But you will sweat blood from the bank for eight years.

That was the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock episode. He embezzles $5 million, then turns himself into the police. Goes to jail for seven years. The day he gets out the police tell him that he’ll go back in unless he returns the money. He Returns the money. Last shot is him on an ocean liner telling people about how he got rich playing the stock market.

Makes sense.

On average, bank robberies net criminals just $7,500. That’s a very low rate of return for 8 years.

When he gets out, he and Jake are getting the band back together.

Jake(’s) and Elwood—the Blues Brothers!

The famous bank robber, Willie Sutton once said, when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is!”

Adds up.

Wonder if Elwood put the money someplace where it will be accruing interest for 8 years.

Sounds like a plan.

Economics 101?

that would work out if you were able to keep the money you had stolen from them.