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83-Year-Old "Greeter" Robs Walmart Store

By Jack Huber

It's true that George Plane Jr. robbed the very same Walmart store that employed him as a greeter. And sure, that seems kind of dumb on the face of it. But it's not like he didn't take precautions to avoid capture. He DID go out to his car to get a disguise first. (Above, see our crack design department's completely imagined rendition of what that disguise might have been, since authorities gave no details.) The caper took a serious turn, however, when Plane put a gun to the head of a fellow employee, demanded money from a cash register and fired a shot into the air after leaving with the cash. Witnesses pointed officers in the direction of Plane's vehicle, and he was arrested later that day. The money was returned, and the (we're assuming) ex-Walmart greeter was placed in the Iredell County Detention Center in North Carolina under a $75,000 bond...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).