Last week a fellow in Queens, N.Y. held up a bank and escaped in a wheel chair with $1200. With tips and cameras he was soon apprehended. I recalled the incident - also in NYC - where two chaps were wheeling their friend in a wheel chair down to the Social Security office to pick up his check. Except that the recipient was deceased. It was reported that they had trouble navigating the curbs and their adventure came to naught. Slick Willie Sutton was perhaps the greatest bank robber of the twentieth century. When he escaped from the Eastern Penitentiary on a Sunday morning it was rumored that he commandeered the milkman's horse and wagon to aid in his escape. Fortified with a few quarts of milk he remained undetected for several years. So if you are planning a caper be selective on your choice of wheels.
tjs
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