America's First Bank Robbery Was Very Silly 

Putting a dude in jail under “suspicion” (he was Celtic) for 3 months and letting another dude go free after robbing a bank (they didn’t know how to charge someone with that) sounds like a synopsis of a comedy sketch

As a historian blacksmith, gotta say, hell yeah! Pat Lyon is a chad, used his big lawsuit reward to have a bad ass painting made, where he specifically wanted to be painted like a common blacksmith and not like a wealthy gentleman (ya know, the people who can usually afford portraits). Also in the background of the painting is included the cupola carpenters hall, where the bank was located at the time. AND- John Neagle being an obsessive nerd made sure to measure all of Pat's tools and paint them exactly as they actually looked, when most artists at the time just took the ol "eh thats just some stupid blacksmith shit draw a brick on a stick and call it a day" approach.

I’m imagining the stereotypical robbers firing their guns into the air to startle the bank goers into submission, but since it’s the late 1700’s they all have to spend a minute to reload and get the crap beaten out of them.

Hugbees is the kind of guy to run off a cliff, float, look down and fall.

I remember a story of some man who robbed a glue factory and ended up sticking himself to the ground during the act, leaving himself as the easiest criminal to ever arrest.

i'd imagine it would go like "give me money" "no" "please" "okay fine" but then historians get the details so wrong then believe they fought to the death over the ancient equivalent of like 8 bucks

"We are arresting you because we think you robbed a bank" 3 months later, after they found the real guy: "Damn, not gonna lie I dont know how long you should be in jail"

Bankrobber: "I'll tell you how I robbed the bank if you free me." Guy who has been telling them exactly what happened from jail: "☹"

This man dropped a 15 minute video at the start of my 15 min break. Impeccable timing you could only expect from Huggbees

I thought this would be about the guy who tried to rob a bank with lemon juice on his face so that it’s invisible ink properties rendered him invisible

huggbees: tries calculate the inflation himself his immediate reaction: "yeah no that can't be right" _mood_

“Lion the blacksmith” is so unironically badass.

Holy shit something actually happened in Pennsylvania other than Philadelphia

I work at a bank these days, and honestly, some of the fraud attempts people do are almost as dumb as "I'ma sleep inside the bank, let my buds in, then deposit the stolen money into my own account", and there's way more security practices in place now.

It's a sad state of affairs when the number of things that have changed meaningfully about the legal system since this incident can be counted on one hand.

Him: Hey girl, wanna talk about the Pennsylvania bank robbery of 1798? Me: 😩🥵💦

The greatest twist in this story is that Lyon basically invented the light novel

The extended silence after "I'm so glad that the modern legal system that we have never lets racial prejudice stand in the way of proper justice." is too good.

“We always come back to loving death and destruction, don’t we?” “Fuck yeah we do”

13:25 I so thought he was gonna say "Because he died of Yellow Fever" right after that lol.

Nothing like enjoying 15 minutes of Hugbees recounting the tale of the first American bank robbery on my birthday

I actually got the woman of my dreams talking about the robbery of 1798. Thanks huggbees 😃

3:35 it's been a good minute since i heard a "Nani the fuck?!" from Huggbees

The world needs comedians and storytellers. We are lucky to have both in Huggabee. Thank you.

I mean, imagine threatening guys doing their job to give you money for free.

Can we appreciate how Huggbees consistently makes 15+ minute long videos?

When he said to imagine the most stupid outcome I was like "Probably depositing the money to the same bank he stole it from". Then I watched the rest of the video.

This man's channel has evolved into a history class

That smooth jump on screen in the first second made me so happy for no good reason

Huggbees is the kind of guy to read a dictionary. Start to finish. For the plot.

13:58 my biggest question is what was lion imprisoned for if bank robbery wasn’t a crime back then and why didn’t they just charge the actual thief with it

I felt really jabbed at with the crunchyroll joke. Still died from laughter from it

Remember though, the book was 80 pages in Lyon's time. But with inflation, its probably a lot more.

Hugbees doesnt miss I swear id watch this man just stare into a camera and randomly quote vines for 10 hours straight. Ilu man

Anything discussed through the lens of Hugbees becomes exponentially more interesting. My nonsense history loving self is always overjoyed with this junk.

as a fellow Floridian, we do infact love death and destruction even the Zephyrhills water that is miraculously placed in every Floridian home

I love how Huggbees videos boil down to either "Heres an interesting thing I found" or "Heres how this would be made if I was God" and Im here for both.

Astounding and incredible to see this second awesome upload from Huggbees, and it happened to be posted the day of my one year wedding anniversary :) today on our 1920s train ride back from the Grand Canyon, our train was stopped for a staged cowboy hijacking and robbery. Much more fun than bank robberies or the real thing! Thank you for a great closer to my wonderful day.

Thank you for this work of Modern Art.

I didn’t watch the full video since I’m commenting this before I could even watch the whole thing but I just wanted to let you know it was great and I was enthralled by the topic.

Jesus Christ I needed a laugh so bad. Thanks hugs, you came in clutch just when I needed it.

14:57 v suace

No rest for the wicked Hugbees content, niiiiice

"I want you to be thinking about the stupidest possible way for a bank robber to get caught while watching this video..." Okay, they misplaced their getaway car and decided to approach a policeman for help. "...and then think of an even stupider way." Oh, they asked a policeman for the best bank to rob.

Always a great day when Huggbees uploads. Thanks Andrew!

calculating the inflation of values from before 1913 is kinda difficult due to the monetary system completely changing in 1913 when they began to abandon the gold standard.

The title of the book kind of sounds like a Japanese light novel 🤣🤣

I can't believe I predicted the twist EXACTLY I feel so smart.

Hugbees looks like a guy who starred in failed, unknown films and swore to take revenge on the movie industry

Samuel Robbinson not being a conspirator to a bank robbery is Ace Attorney levels of names

Samuel Hybbinson? HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

God only entrusts his silliest bank robberies to his silliest bank robbers.

i was trying to fall asleep and when he went quiet at 9:44 i thought that either the next video will start or he will say 'dont worry, your autoplay is working'

Old titles never left a single thing to imagination. You could read only that, and you got all the information in the book. Guaranteed.

Weird that they tried to put Pat Lyon in gaol. After all, as one of those crafty celts, he could have escaped inside of an hour had he really wanted to.

So I take it you’ll be offering history lessons in The Great Courses Plus?

A man robbed a bank with nothing but lemon juice all over his face. Because his rationality was that; if it makes invisible ink, it'll make me invisible. It did not.

I love the hand gestures reflected in the sunglasses XD

1:45 this was a perfect opportunity to call out Wyoming again and you fucking squandered it.

Yknow, we all talk about robbing banks, but i feel like rob, my local banker, needs a lot more credit

The b@nk robber is cosplaying mrs pots from beauty and the beast, is way to in character to rob the bank, so he holds up the line until he can convince himself to go through with the robbery but first he has to convince himself that he’s not mrs Potts but he’s caught during that.

You should talk about the first armored car robbery that also happened in Pennsylvania

4:18 That was such a magical flashback sequence.

We will never know hugbees eye color, all I see is shades

Nothing like watching a 15 minute long hugbees video on a fairly regular day during a time of no particular importance.

The Penny Plunderer strikes again! 🪙

That book’s title is dripping with passive aggression.

15:19 Gaol

Even though i looked at the subscription tab, i wasn’t recommended this video until watching random iceberg videos to fall asleep

The book may have been 80 pages then sure, but in today's pages, that's about 40,578 pages.

I was ready for the true twist robber to be a man named Robb Banks.

Stiiiiill waiting for the next 'How it's actually made' video... Come on, Huggbees, we know you can do this!

Depositing the money at the same bank was my first thought for a stupid reason to get caught.

There was a heist recently in Canada, people stole $15mil worth of gold and stuff from an airport hangar. Was probably really boring how they did it

ok you want me to imagine the stupidest way a bank robbery could be caught... I expect the robber to deposit all of the money in the same bank on their own account.

1. 13:38 “We don't know how to prosecute it” “Lyon: ……. “ “... twice, we don't know how to do it twice“ 2. 15:19 Modern mangas titles being like:

I just got off crunchy roll to watch this. Thank you for the knowledge I can now seduce the McDonald's employee of my dreams

Early Legal System: "Totally normal bank robber behavior to come back to the place we accused you of robbing to clear your name, you dirty Celt."

Hugging bees is my favorite bank robber.

10/10 would recommend learning about the Pennsylvania bank robbery of 1798. This information got me laid instantly.

Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here🏆

What’s crazy to me is that they arrested Lion and kept him for 3 months for suspicion of robbing a bank… but they didn’t know how to charge the man who actually robbed a bank…

Moral of the story: Don't fuck with Yellow Fever.

Huggbees, i'm really drunk right now and I wanna tell you I fucking love you

Huggbees glasses protect us from his beauty ❤

As a Pennsylvanian, I can confirm this is our usual Bank robbery shenanigans

Huggburgers. Layin' it down flat and straight.

Bro, I love reading The Narrative of Patrick Lyon, Who Suffered Three Months Severe Imprisonment in Philadelphia Gaol; on Merely a Vague Suspicion, of Being Concerned in the Robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania. It's gotta be one of my favorite books. I'd recommendThe Narrative of Patrick Lyon, Who Suffered Three Months Severe Imprisonment in Philadelphia Gaol; on Merely a Vague Suspicion, of Being Concerned in the Robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania to anyone trying a new book. The Narrative of Patrick Lyon, Who Suffered Three Months Severe Imprisonment in Philadelphia Gaol; on Merely a Vague Suspicion, of Being Concerned in the Robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania. Has such a nice and delightful ending, especially when he got the money he deserved.

He keeps mentioning yellow fever as an actual sickness. Here i thought yellow fever was just what you get if you watch too much anime

0:00 for Huggees jumpscare

Quite silly indeed

I took a screenshot because in spite of it being so easy to remember that title, I'm not going to.

Damn, it must suck to suffer three months severe imprisonment on merely a vague suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania. Really makes ya think.

So glad we have crunchyroll now to treat yellow fever.

You know someone I would love to see you do a video on? Adrian carton de wiart. The amount of shit that man survived in his career as a soldier is ridiculous. He also has an epic song made about him by sabaton.

As someone who lives in Delaware, it’s so weird to think y’all can see where my house might be.

i remeber how there was a news headline that showed with pics that police shot like 120 rounds into a getaway truck. they killed the hostage, the suspect, and an innocent bystander

Yo that title of the book sounds hype! I for one cannot wait for an anime adaptation with the exact same name, but perhaps shortened to Narvania or something.

I need a Huggbees, Jonny Razer and Doug Doug Collab. The chaotic energy would implode the universe.

Love that intro!