Sign of the Times- Man in electric Wheelchair succeeds in Robbing Bank

[Ichingcarpenter]

Police say man in wheelchair robbed bank

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late this afternoon with a black handgun.
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After the stickup, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street toward a major thoroughfare.

Witnesses say the man's legs were wrapped in bandages and his right leg was sticking straight out while he zoomed away.

Police are looking for a white Ford van that the suspect may have been hoisted into after the robbery.

Investigators don't know whether the wheelchair was just a prop or whether the suspect was truly disabled.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_fe_st/wheelchair_bank_robbery

[Richard Steele]

1. "Don't worry, boys- he won't get far on foot." nm

[TomInTib]

2. Oh, damn, I give up...

While trying to think of some witty response, I saw your reply.

I surrender.

Effing hilarious.



Tom

[Richard Steele]

3. I wish I could take credit, but the fellow who deserves it is a cartoonist named John Callahan:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=2509

[TomInTib]

4. Too fucking late, man...

You have been alerted to a higher power.

Farther on down the road...

[Richard Steele]

6. Oh well, then! nm

[htuttle]

5. "Joe: How's about we all go on a stick up? It's fool proof. "

"If it works, we'll be in great shape. If not, maybe they'll give us three years. That would be free room and board, and when we get out we'd each have 36 Social Security checks waiting for us. Not a bad piece of change. But that's only if we get caught, and I don't think we'd get caught."

"Willie : Joe... What if we get shot? "

"Joe : What's the difference?"