While I don't support robbing banks, I DO support creativity. And Charles Everett Coma gets some credit for creativity. In April, 2004, Coma managed to leave an Olympia, Washington bank with $6000 in stolen money. Wearing a wetsuit under his street clothes, Coma apparently rushed to Puget Sound in his car, and dashed toward the water carrying scuba tanks. Police saw him throw a backpack containing the robbery money into the Sound, but tackled him before he was able to enter the water. Evidently, he was planning on swimming to freedom.
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Franklin D. Burgess sentenced Coma to 16 years in prison for armed bank robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and assault on a federal officer. He was overheard to've said, "Man, if only I'd been wearing Flip Fins!"
