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    Default Police Reel in Scuba Diver Robber

    This is old, but check this out:

    AP-OLYMPIA, WA-April 27, 2004 - Maybe it was the weight belt. Or the air tank and regulator slung over his shoulder. Whatever his excuse, a wet suit-wearing bank robber couldn't make it to the water before being tackled by police.

    Police subdued the man Thursday on the shore of Budd Inlet after a quarter-mile dash through the woods, a car chase and crash, Olympia police Sgt. Ray Holmes said."No truth to the rumor he was running in flippers," police spokesman Tor Bjornstad said, although he noted officers found a pair of fins inside the car after making the arrest.

    The pursuit began at a Key Bank branch on the west side of Olympia. A man entered the bank, pushed a customer out of the way, pointed an assault rifle at a teller and demanded money.

    The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of cash, which the man shoved into the backpack. Police said he was wearing a wet suit under an overcoat or a sweat suit.

    Witnesses spotted him several blocks from the bank, running toward the woods behind a restaurant and getting into a car. The man led police on a two-mile pursuit, then plowed through a chain-link fence and crashed into a tree. After a few minutes of trying to get the car unstuck, he fled wearing a weight belt and toting an air tank and regulator over his shoulder, Bjornstad said.

    He managed to get close enough to toss the backpack into the water before officers tackled him on the shore and used an electronic stun gun to halt him, Holmes said. The money was recovered.

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    Pretty funny bit of news. Id hate to be around when he took the wetsuit off. Nice warm day bit nervous doing the job and then running with a tank would make him rather sweaty and or super human.
    Does he want a job carrying tanks at any local dive sites?

    Matt

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    Old post but I have to comment. That has to be the dumbest getaway idea ever lol, running in tight rubber draging your scuba gear and money with the police right behind you... thats going to work out great and he left his flippers behind

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    Even if he left no DNA in the car, he should have stashed his dive gear, driven a stolen car into the water with his gear finally on, then swam away....
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Publisher View Post
    Even if he left no DNA in the car, he should have stashed his dive gear, driven a stolen car into the water with his gear finally on, then swam away....
    I think the tree he hit stop any idea like that lol all he could do was take a sweaty run for it
    Dive in!!!

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