'Geezer Bandit' bank robber strikes for 16th time, FBI says

[ellisonz]

Source: LA Times

'Geezer Bandit' bank robber strikes for 16th time, FBI says
December 2, 2011 | 8:36 pm
-- Tony Perry in San Diego

The bank robber known as the Geezer Bandit struck for the 16th time on Friday, the FBI said.

A Bank of America branch in San Luis Obispo was hit late in the day by a gun-waving robber who fit the Geezer Bandit description: a white male in his 60s or 70s, about 6 feet tall, wearing glasses and a hat.

Although most of the robberies attributed to the Geezer Bandit have been in San Diego and its suburbs, others have occurred in Temecula, Bakersfield, Goleta and Morro Bay. The first robbery was in the San Diego suburb of Santee in August 2009.

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A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. Although witnesses have described the bandit as a man of mature years, there has also been speculation that he is wearing a theatrical mask to appear old.

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[pacalo]

1. Gooooo, Granpa!

:hide:

[No Elephants]

3. LOL! I opened the thread intending to post "Would it be wrong to root for the geezer?"

Guess you answered my question!

[pacalo]

5. Maybe we'll meet at Guantanamo...if you-know-who's taking names.

:scared:

[msanthrope]

9. I don't know what you think you are doing that merits Guantanamo.

:tinfoilhat:

[pacalo]

19. For now, I'm only joking. In the future? Perhaps not so much.

[Kablooie]

2. The guy has to rob banks to pay for his mask. Check it out here...

Here is the senior mask that has beffuddled news reporters before.

http://spfxmasks.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=49

[pacalo]

4. $810 without hair; $420 extra for stubble.

Well, damn.

[JJW]

6. Why don't they go after the real

banksters that destroyed the middle class and shipped decent jobs overseas for three decades?

[Gringostan]

7. I know robbing banks is wrong

I know robbing banks is wrong; but how much longer until more of us are in this same state of desperation?

[MindPilot]

12. No, robbing banks is not wrong, just illegal.

[ellisonz]

18. Welcome to DU!

:donut:

Also, Republicans need to stop watching The Town.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/the-town-republicans-debt-ceiling_n_910472.html

[trof]

8. Look, it wasn't me.

I know I fit the description, but I was somewhere else.
Honest.

[russspeakeasy]

11. It wasn't me either. We were together someplace else, right?

[trof]

13. Yeah...we were at the...uh...GEEZER PLACE!

Right!
The Geezer Place.
;-)

[russspeakeasy]

14. Yeah, I remember now; The Waffle House.

:evilgrin:

[trof]

15. I know a really tasteless joke about the Waffle House.

Which I won't post here.
:rofl:

[russspeakeasy]

16. I'm all for tasteless jokes!

They are my main distraction from the holiday season..

[ellisonz]

23. Does it involve pepper spray?

:spank:

[Divernan]

17. I shall immediately google "tasteless joke" and "waffle house"

[Katashi_itto]

10. New Employment opportunites for the Elderly !

[sarcasmo]

20. Excuse me Sir, but aren't your sweat pants pulled up a bit high?

[shanti]

21. i think it's a mask

we'll wait and see. he'll get caught.

[unkachuck]

22. the Sunshine Boy?

....this desperado is giving us geezers a bad (or worse) reputation....speaking as a bonafide geezer, geezers aren't supposed to rob banks, we're supposed to sit bitching on park benches, bounce babies on our knee and smell funny....

[dipsydoodle]

24. "Geezer bandit" lol

makes him sound like our East End Thug : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGlUUAmjxk