CHICAGO (Reuters) - That was easy.

A bank robber behind the wheel of his car on Tuesday sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

The exchange was completed through the bank's pneumatic tube communications system, in which canisters are passed back and forth between motorist and teller.

The FBI said it was investigating the drive-through theft.
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something tells me there's a teller position opening up soon.

Believe it or not, the teller was probably instructed to do that.

Yeah, I think the bank would rather lose a couple hundred than have a situation on their hands. But damn, through a drive-through? That's bold.

A freak could send a bomb through one of those tubes, couldn't he? (I've never seen one myself). Or could the teller have simply disconnected the transfer system?