Monday, July 09, 2007

Another nominee for the Darwin Awards


Check out the guy in the picture. He's a man with a plan. The plan: to rob a bank. The M.O.: go into the bank disguised as a... tree?:

Police said this morning a tip has led them to an arrest in the leafy robber case.

James Coldwell, 49, of 50 Lowell St. has been charged with robbery in connection with a Saturday morning holdup at the Citizens Bank branch at 1550 Elm St.

The robber had duct taped tree banches to his head and torso to disguise himself, police said."

Usually in these cases I can at least hazard a guess as to what the doofus might have been thinking. Not this time. If anyone has any idea, I'd be most interested to hear it, because this kind of defies logic.

(h/t pandagon)