Yesterday
afternoon in a suburb of Toronto, a 63 year old man who was using a
powerchair (his condition has yet to be released by police, but they
will say he doesn‘t have any form of paralysis), robbed a bank by
claiming he had strapped explosives to his wheelchair.
So, it went down like this: This guy went to a TD Bank branch yesterday
morning (a popular bank chain in Canada), which just happened to be
down the street from the apartment building he lived in. And while he
actually didn’t have any explosives strapped to his chair, he lied to
an employee saying he did, after approaching a teller window. And the
possibly odd part, he was successful. After receiving a certain amount
of undisclosed cash, the accused fled the scene in his wheelchair and
returned home.
What? He returned home? And the police claim he has no obvious
psychological problems? I think I may have to disagree on this one! Who
in their right mind just goes home after robbing a bank? Did he the
cameras in the bank wouldn’t make it relatively easy for the police to
find him?
Anyways, the police figured out who the idiot was a few hours later,
and then went and arrested him, and were able to recover the money as
well. All and all, the case is now closed. They released him today
using an “officer in charge” order, which puts a number of stipulations
on him before they let him return home (I’m guessing he was too much
work medically to have him holed up in jail for days/weeks on end until
his trial).
It makes you wonder if the guy thought he’d get away with it because he used a wheelchair.
The full news story can be viewed
here.
