Hardtimes are ahead
 

Example: 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.

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.

Sourse: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_fe_st/wheelchair_bank_robbery_1

isnt it hard enough to make a succesfull robbery as it is... haha... the old geezer pulled it off with a wheelchair! he must be the best robber in history! I wonder if he will strike again... maybe the wheelchair is a good thing... cause people doesnt bother following him... theyre like... he wont get far lets just call the police, and then he just wheels of into the sunset... "works everytime sonny!"

wait they did not catch a man in a wheel chair? :1orglaugh

man that takes balls lol

That is so Unbelievable! He must be professor X to do that.

Lol, I wouldn't believe if I saw a man in a wheelchair trying to rob a bank...

I mean, how fast can he scape afterwards??

Only in California
 

Yep, This could only happen in California.

Well I guess the bank must of had wheel chair access :thumbsup

They didn't stop him as the laws are nuts in California. If they would have hurt him in the apprehension he could sue the bank for alot more than he had just stolen.

wow what a crazy old fuck

If he isnt truelly disabled, he might be able to get away with it :)

I guess the cops would have a hard time catching him

It's too late for him now, but if any of you are thinking about it - you should never use a gun to rob a bank. It adds another 10 years to your sentence if you use a gun or threat of violence, and they will still give you the money if you don't use a gun.

Wow that's crazy, the police must have taken awhile to get to the scene

how are you supposed to kill someone without a gun? sorry, but if i were dumb enough to be robbing a bank in the first place, i wouldn't be holding the place up with a 9 iron...

Well some FYI just well because one should never under estimate a gimp. PS I was not at nor near Stanford at this time.

1980 the Boston Marathon world record was beaten by 31 minutes not by a professional marathoner who had held the record but by a guy in a wheelchair. But well that is only 26.2 miles in an hour and fifty five minutes. However there are hills both up and down so that's not to fair as that area is pretty flat. PS. That record has been beaten a few times by people in chairs and the fastest times are always way ahead of the abled bodied runners. If I recall it is down near an hour and thirty.

In reality most sports authorities and judges do not feel its fair for the wheelchair bound to compete against able bodied individuals. In general wheelchair times are faster than foot times for almost all events. (I am guessing we suck at hurdles, that hop, skip, jump thing, long jump and such. Then again amputee's have killed in those areas so oops again.) Hell try to find another woman or hell even a man that is able bodied to do a 1,500 meter in 3:30.6 I am sure some can imagine the closeness of races and what say a 10 foot win looks like, now imagine a 60 meter lead over second place, that's what happens when they allow it to be mixed.

Now of course those are athletes and this guy was in an electric scooter. Albeit they can be slower, after a small bit of tinkering my own scooter can attain approx 21 mph for approx 2 hours before I get a noticeable slowdown in my battery supply.

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