This could become a habit.
Two gun-toting robbers stole a scene right out of the Ben Affleck crime thriller "The Town" by disguising themselves as nuns to knock over a Chicago-area bank.
The unholy duo, a woman and a man, got away with a duffel bag crammed with enough cash to fill several church coffers, police and the FBI said yesterday.
"Maybe they're fans of the Ben Affleck movie," said Palos Heights Deputy Chief Dave Delaney. "They were very creative. It took a lot of you-know-what to pull it off."
Surveillance video shows the pair wearing rubber masks under makeshift black clerical habits and gloves, just as in the 2010 movie, entering the TCF bank in the southwest suburb on Sunday, two minutes before the 2 p.m. closing time.
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COSTUME DRAMA: Bank-security video shows two robbers pulling off a heist uncannily similar to the one portrayed in Ben Affleck's "The Town."
The phony nuns announced the stickup and jumped the teller's counter, each with a gun in hand.
The 5-foot-5 woman brandished a semiautomatic pistol, and the man a revolver.
They shouted at the two lone female employees -- a bank teller and a manager -- to open the vault before anyone could hit the alarm.
"They swore at them a little bit. They said, 'Don't look at us! Hurry up!' said Delaney. "They seemed to be pretty calm, all right. I guess this is not their first crime, but maybe it's their first bank robbery," he told The Post.
The pair quickly filled a Nike duffel bag and sped away in a light colored, late-model Chevy Impala.
The fake nuns are still on the run.
FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates said that unlike the movie scene where the robbers pistol-whipped people, the real-life heist all went down in a slick three minutes without a shot fired or anyone injured.
Yates would not disclose the amount of cash taken, but since it was the day before Memorial Day, law-enforcement officials believe the duo got away with a lot more than could fill a dozen church collection plates.
Palos Heights Detective Gerald Wodka told the Chicago Sun-Times that police have some leads, "but nothing concrete. It's not the first time this branch has been robbed. It's a pretty popular one. I don't know why."
The man and his companion were described as white or light-skinned Hispanics.
Two gun-toting robbers stole a scene right out of the Ben Affleck crime thriller "The Town" by disguising themselves as nuns to knock over a Chicago-area bank.
The unholy duo, a woman and a man, got away with a duffel bag crammed with enough cash to fill several church coffers, police and the FBI said yesterday.
"Maybe they're fans of the Ben Affleck movie," said Palos Heights Deputy Chief Dave Delaney. "They were very creative. It took a lot of you-know-what to pull it off."
Surveillance video shows the pair wearing rubber masks under makeshift black clerical habits and gloves, just as in the 2010 movie, entering the TCF bank in the southwest suburb on Sunday, two minutes before the 2 p.m. closing time.
COSTUME DRAMA: Bank-security video shows two robbers pulling off a heist uncannily similar to the one portrayed in Ben Affleck's "The Town."
The phony nuns announced the stickup and jumped the teller's counter, each with a gun in hand.
The 5-foot-5 woman brandished a semiautomatic pistol, and the man a revolver.
They shouted at the two lone female employees -- a bank teller and a manager -- to open the vault before anyone could hit the alarm.
"They swore at them a little bit. They said, 'Don't look at us! Hurry up!' said Delaney. "They seemed to be pretty calm, all right. I guess this is not their first crime, but maybe it's their first bank robbery," he told The Post.
The pair quickly filled a Nike duffel bag and sped away in a light colored, late-model Chevy Impala.
The fake nuns are still on the run.
FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates said that unlike the movie scene where the robbers pistol-whipped people, the real-life heist all went down in a slick three minutes without a shot fired or anyone injured.
Yates would not disclose the amount of cash taken, but since it was the day before Memorial Day, law-enforcement officials believe the duo got away with a lot more than could fill a dozen church collection plates.
Palos Heights Detective Gerald Wodka told the Chicago Sun-Times that police have some leads, "but nothing concrete. It's not the first time this branch has been robbed. It's a pretty popular one. I don't know why."
The man and his companion were described as white or light-skinned Hispanics.
