Attack of the Handicapped

If you were an old man, no wife, no kids, no vacation home and the promise of even less Social Security money in the future, would you take matters into your own hands? Well, one unidentified man did just that, motoring to the local bank in an electric wheelchair at the pace of about three miles an hour.

We have all seen some action movie where a criminal holds up a bank and escapes from the authorities in a fast car (or Horse for you John Wayne types). Or you could just hide in the bank for a week or two and walk out the front door like Clive Owen in The Inside Man. In that movie the robbers were dressed in painter outfits (so was everyone else for that matter) that obscured their face, and were generally big tough guys, and a few intimidating women.
(Completely ignore this paragraph if you have not seen Inside Man.)

Anyways, the man who robbed the Wachovia Bank in Palo Alto, California was not the typical testosterone-fueled gunmen. This daring criminal decided to rob the bank in a slow moving wheelchair. I can just see the bank teller leaning over to see the nice old man who seems to want to make a deposit.

"How can I help you, Sir?"
Imagine her surprise as the sixty-year old pulls out a Glock handgun and sticks it in her cute little face.

The old man had bandages on his legs, and one leg was sticking straight out, which would make it pretty hard to get close to the teller's box.

He reaches out to grab the bag of money from the cashier, but can't get close enough because of his leg. He keeps ramming it into the counter trying in vain to get his money until the nice young teller comes around the counter to give it to him. On his way out one of the wheels of his chair gets stuck on one of the people who hit the floor the minute they realized the bank was being robbed. After several attempts the man sis able to role over the body and continue outside.

Unfortunately, there is no fast, sweet-looking sports car to whisk him away, and he is resigned
to plodding along at a pathetically slow pace in his wheelchair, yet he is able to elude authorities and makes a successful escape.

Be on the lookout for a handicapped man with a bag of money and a very large pistol

(While the story is true, I obviously took a few liberties with the facts)