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September 1, 2003

Scary

Someone pointed me at this story right before I went to sleep last night.

Bomb Kills Pizza Deliveryman After Arrest in Bank Robbery

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

In the beginning it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill bank robbery.

Brian Douglas Wells, 46, a pizza deliveryman, walked into a bank on a busy street in Erie, Pa., on Thursday, slipped the teller a note and walked out with a bag of cash, said Special Agent Bob Rudge, a supervisor in the F.B.I.'s Erie office.

But in a twist that has experienced local and federal investigators perplexed, Mr. Wells had a bomb around his chest that detonated and killed him shortly after he was stopped by the state police and taken into custody.

When he was arrested, investigators said, Mr. Wells claimed that someone had forced him to wear the bomb, set a timer and sent him out to rob the bank. [NYTimes]

Read the whole article. It's bizarre. I'm not sure what to think. Though the whole thing sounds like it is destined for a TV Movie.

Posted by snooze at September 1, 2003 10:26 AM