Wait, so instead of calling 911, you Tweet...

:|NEW YORK - "So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really really tired. ugh."

A couple of hours later, things really really picked up.

"My bank was just held up - with me in it. HSBC 34 and 8," the 26-year-old Web producer tweeted her 1,900 or so followers just after 9 a.m. under her Twitter name, TravelingAnna, referring to 34th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. "Also my whole trackball is GONE!!! I'm locked in the bank still."

And thus began a rather unusual Twitter thread - a bank heist, or at least its immediate aftermath, in 140-character-or-less updates. Was it the first bank heist to be tweeted? The folks at Twitter Inc. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As for police, they confirmed the robbery and said the unarmed suspect, who had given a threatening note to the teller, fled with $500.

Before going any further, it must be pointed out that Dooling isn't asking for the key to the city; police had already been alerted by more traditional means, with a 911 call. And actually, Dooling was too busy, well, looking at her BlackBerry to be the first to notice the heist.

But she also didn't expect to be criticized online, by folks who apparently thought she should have been alerting police or doing something else - anything - rather than tweeting.

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That girl is e-sane

It said there was already a 911 call made though. I don't see the problem unless she just wants e-popularity. Avistann

That is true.... but also this woman might have been thinking this is the last statements that she could make to the world after having her life threatened.

[QUOTE="Avistann"]It said there was already a 911 call made though. I don't see the problem unless she just wants e-popularity. xxxAdvocatexxx

That is true.... but also this woman might have been thinking this is the last statements that she could make to the world after having her life threatened.

What day was this? I was at Penn Station (31st and 8th) a few days ago catching a bus. Be pretty funny to know a robbery was happening 3 blocks away at the time.

welcome to the futureweezyfb

Shes the epitome of a Tweetwhore, yall should watch that vid on youtube from Nigahiga

If this keeps up, human race is doomed.

Meh, don't think anything will top the bloke who was in a plane crash and tweeted it straight away.AirGuitarist87

But it's not like he could've done anything else.

Just a bull crap story to distract us from real news.