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John Lauinger

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, July 19th 2010, 6:31 PM

The bald-headed bandit put a note inside the flowers at the Bank of Smithtown in Chelsea.

Call this crook the Romeo robber.

Cops released security-camera images Monday of a thief who knocked off a Manhattan bank last week and gave a teller a bouquet of flowers.

The bald-headed bandit put the bouquet to good use, pulling a note from inside the flowers and handing it to a teller at the Bank of Smithtown on Seventh Ave. in Chelsea last Thursday.

Give me all your $100's, 50's! the note read. Don't be a hero!

The teller complied,forking over an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

The robber left the bouquet behind - and took off on foot, police said.

The robber, who struck shortly before 9 a.m., was described as a black man in his early 30s, about 5-foot-9. He wore a Navy blue T-shirt, jeans and white sneakers.

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