The Story of the Collar Bomb Heist
At 2:28 pm on August 28, 2003, a middle-aged pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a short cane in his right hand and a strange bulge under the collar of his T-shirt. Wells, 46 and balding, passed the teller a note. 'Gather employees with access codes to vault and work fast to fill bag with $250,000,- it said. 'You have only 15 minutes.- Then he lifted his shirt to reveal a heavy, boxlike device dangling from his neck. According to the note, it was a bomb. The teller, who told Wells there was no way to get into the vault at that time, filled a bag with cash-$8,702-and handed it over. Wells walked out, sucking on a Dum Dum lollipop he grabbed from the counter, hopped into his car, and drove off. He didn't get far. Some 15 minutes later, state troopers spotted Wells standing outside his Geo Metro in a nearby parking lot, surrounded him, and tossed him to the pavement, cuffing his hands behind his back.




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Fisher turns back to the FBI's profile, which states that the bomb builder was 'comfortable around a wide variety of power tools and shop machines.- He was 'a frugal person who saves scraps of sundry materials in order to reuse them in various projects.- And he was 'the type of person who takes pride in building a variety of things.-
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Some 15 minutes later, state troopers spotted Wells standing outside his Geo Metro...
KILL HIM!
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The only thing missing from this crime is that it wasn't perped in Florida.
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rule number one after you've just robbed a bank ... GET THE meep OUT OF THE AREA