No. Like I said if you read my post, I never blamed the robbery on the $$. But why in heavens name would an 85 year old woman be carrying that much cash around with her? (PS, I read your post Fazee... I talk about it later in the response here...) It does not mean that she deserved what she got, or validated the attack in any way. But here's the catch. You think that saying that an old woman was carrying that much cash around with her will make it safer for them to walk around now? They are already known as easy targets to these punks, telling the exact $ amount that was stolen, especially one so high, is not a very responsible thing to do. And 195, if you are carrying $10K in cash around with you, you are not being very smart. It COULD be stolen from you. That is why most people say it is not a smart thing to do. There are safer ways to transport that amount of cash. If there isn't, for someone like herself, then there has to be something done about it to make it unnecessary for her to be carrying that much with her. I think some of these elderly people feel uncomfortable with banks and electronics. They would rather have the money under the mattress or rolled up in a soup can than in a bank. Hell, IndyBank did not exactly help things with that either!!! How can we get these people to be more comfortable with a debt card? Haw can we make it so that pushing over an old lady will net you a cane and a wig, but nothing much else? How, aside from the obvious apprehension and "accidental mishandling" of a suspect can we discourage this immoral, but definitely easy money?