Speed is usually critical for bank robbers, but not for a Prince George man who held up a branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia Friday morning — while using a black walker. While no weapon was produced, the 75-year-old said he was armed. Staff surrendered a small amount of cash, the robber made his getaway and RCMP were called at 11:44 a.m. The suspect was described as a Caucasian male weighing about 230 pounds. He 
was wearing a straw hat, white T-shirt, grey jogging pants and dark glasses — and using the walker that many rely on for mobility. Prince George RCMP spokesman Gary Godwin said the man was apprehended approximately 45 minutes later in the vicinity of a SaveOn Foods store in the same suburban Sprucelands strip mall where the bank is located. The man is in custody while police investigate the decidedly unusual case. “It’s not every day you get a 75-year-old male on a walker holding up a bank,” said Godwin. “We’re looking at all the circumstances that are involved.”
The man is known to police. “He’s not well known to police but we do know of him,” he said. Godwin, who has just retired from the RCMP after 25 years and has 36 years of policing experience, has never seen a bank robber as old as in this case. But he said that staff did the right thing in allowing the man to ‘walk’ out of the bank even though they never saw a weapon. “You never know what you have on the other side of the counter,” he said. “If he says he has a weapon, the best thing is to give him what we wants. Err on the side of caution is what we teach.”
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This Get Away Car might be a novel replacement for City workers to get to work on.
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