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Police Say Man In Wheelchair Robbed Bank Ok, fes up!, Who did it? :) Rate Topic: -----

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Post icon  Posted 06 April 2008 - 12:53 PM

Police say man in wheelchair robbed bank

Fri Apr 4, 7:15 PM ET

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.

After the stickup, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street toward El Camino Real, 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.

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Information from: San Jose Mercury News, http://www.sjmercury.com
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Posted 06 April 2008 - 01:01 PM

HA HA that made me laugh, i can just imagine the faces of the cashiers i wonder if he went to the low window for wheelchair users LOL LOL




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Posted 06 April 2008 - 01:14 PM

Just for the record, I was in the UK on friday! :clap:

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Posted 06 April 2008 - 10:52 PM

This guy has to be a hero.
If he genuinely uses a wheelchair, what incredible confidence to try such a risky heist and actually (to this stage) carry it out. Bizarre.
If it was a thief using the wheelchair as a disguise, what a daring, funny and creative ploy?
OK, he's a very naughty boy for thieving but yah gotta admire him (or maybe it's a her)
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 12:19 AM

View PostApparelyzed, on Apr 6 2008, 06:14 AM, said:

Just for the record, I was in the UK on friday! :lol:

Simon :)


Of course you were. :D :D
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 10:42 AM

Hmmm! Does anyone happen to know what type vehicle Captain Pike drives?

btw, my chair is a manual.

Really!

And I hate Fords.

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Post icon  Posted 07 April 2008 - 06:53 PM

I would say I did it, but my right leg was amputated a couple of years ago.......
That's where I hid the shotgun....

Must of been a bunch of LAME ASS bank guards........

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 07:24 PM

Who ever he is, he's my hero, that's fer sure!
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 10:30 PM

Since most banks have cameras just for this purpose, I wonder how long before this hits UTUBE.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 04:15 PM

Also, I couldn't grow a beard if you paid me.
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Post icon  Posted 09 April 2008 - 12:33 AM

Well with the prices of some of the equipment.........if he didn't have insurance........you never know who'd be tempted to rob a bank. :mfrlol:

For the record.......I wouldn't be able to hold my leg out strait anyhow + I was in California USA. :D My BEST alibi is that I would NOT have been able to maneuver down a crowded street with OUT hitting dozens of people :D
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