This note from another bank robbery might not be terribly well-written, but it makes at least some sense. Image via FBI.

Crime makes us sad. But even sadder might be the criminals that are so inept that they can’t even successfully flout our laws.

Over the weekend the Post reported on 20-year-old Maurice Fearwell, a local bank robber who twice failed to, you know, rob banks because the tellers he spoke to had no real idea what his demands were:

Authorities say that most bank robbers use notes, not guns, but the wording must be clear to be understood. Court documents say the note handed over at the SunTrust simply read, “100s 50s 20s 10s.”

“The teller was confused,” the FBI agent wrote in the affidavit, noting that the teller understood the man to say “money” but nothing else. She handed the note back, and the FBI says he wrote, “all mona.” The teller sent him away. It was only after he left, authorities said, that a customer who was in earshot told her that the man was trying to rob the bank.

The teller at the Bank of America seemed to understand what was happening a bit quicker, although the FBI said she, too, was at first confused by the note reading “all mona.”

After his second consecutive failure, Fearwell was arrested by police.