Fleeing Maine bank robber slips, spills money, gun in front of lieutenant, police say

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/12/waterville-police-respond-to-robbery-report-at-city-bank/

A lone man brandishing a handgun walked into Bangor Savings Bank on upper Main Street Tuesday morning, robbed the bank and fled, but what was to happen next, no one could have predicted.

He ran across four lanes of traffic on Main Street and into the Ming Lee restaurant parking lot, slipped on the ice and found himself face-to-face with a Maine State Police lieutenant who just happened to be parked in the right place at the right time.

“When he fell, the money and the gun he had stashed in his jacket pocket spilled onto the parking lot, and the money was swept across the parking lot by the wind,” police Chief Joseph Massey said later. “Members of the public tried to scoop it up.”

The state police lieutenant, Glenn Lang, was suspicious, of course, and got out of his vehicle, tackled the man, and took him into custody just about the time city police responded to the report of a bank robbery.

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poor guy...

[Sneederbunk]

1. There was a hole in that plan.

[Blues Heron]

2. Why did he do it? The answer is blowing in the wind

[catbyte]

3. That mugshot is effing perfect. Sad sack loser, woe is me.

[rurallib]

4. looks like he just attended a Trump rally

[packman]

5. A life of crime is a slippery slope

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. And this wasn't about Florida ??

Of course, if it had been, there'd have been an alligator, two pythons and a bag of Flakka involved.