patients who are running out of options. and he got away with it time and again. robbing people at local atms in broad daylight. tonight how he did it and see how many failed our awareness test. this is 9news now. dc s serial atm robber says he did it for his crack habit. he is behind bars and sentenced to 15 years. he pled guilty to nine robberies all at busy atms. most of his crimes happened in the middle of the day. so how was he able to pull it off? we sent delia gongalves to find out how vulnerable to many of us are. reporter: so we came back to the scene of the crime and conducted our own experiment. to help me out with that, my photographer. i had james using this flip cam approach folks who were heading to the atm while i stood in the background and using my camera i taped the whole encounter. you wouldn t believe and we were shocked at just how close james was able to get to folks. it didn t take us long to find our victims and james moved in quickly stan