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'Geezer Bandit' Still on the Loose in California

By Eric Lipman

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Our own Bruce Carton has been dutifully maintaining the "Legal Blog Watch Checklist for Bank Robbers" since last December. In the first installment, he included this suggestion: Acknowledge your physical limitations: Let's face it, not all wannabe bank robbers are spring chickens. But that doesn't have to stop you. If you are 70 or 80 years old and cannot rob a bank without bringing along your oxygen tank, then doggone it, you bring that oxygen tank. There are no style points awarded here, and it will not help you to run out of breath as you flee walk from the scene. That particular bullet point was included in deference to an elderly gentleman who had robbed a bank in La Jolla, Calif., with oxygen tank in tow. I can't say for sure whether that particular robber is an LBW reader, but he must be getting some pretty good robbery tips somewhere, because the FBI reported yesterday that the man, dubbed the "Geezer Bandit," has now hit double digits in banks robbed. "Geez" has become somewhat of a Facebook celebrity, with several fan pages, the most active of which includes rampant speculation about why this particular senior citizen might be so...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).