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Bank robbers throw it all
away
In an unusual car chase in Los Angeles recently, bank
robbers who were escaping from the police threw the
stolen money out of the car window.
The incident began in a northern suburb of the city where
four men had committed an armed bank robbery. The
robbers escaped in a stolen vehicle and two of them, who
have not yet been caught, managed to jump out of the car.
All along the route, one of the suspects, sitting in the back
seat of the car, threw handfuls of bank notes out of the
window.
A spokesperson for the police said they thought that the
thieves had been trying to encourage people to come out
into the street, which, they hoped, would have blocked the
path of the patrol cars. And many people did come out to
pick up the money that was raining down in their streets. As
one delighted witness said, “It’s not every day that robbers
give you money, is it?”
The chase continued into downtown Los Angeles, where
the vehicle left the main road and drove through the narrow
streets of the city’s southern areas. Video footage shows
the vehicle driving through roadwork to avoid waiting at red
traffic lights, and even going up onto the pavement so that
terrified pedestrians had to jump out of the way. One
officer whose foot was run over was, fortunately, the only
person who was hurt in the incident.
It is not clear whether the driver who finally ended the
chase did so deliberately. A large pickup truck that turned
out of a side street blocked the path of the two bank
robbers, which finally forced the criminals to stop.
In a dramatic scene filmed by TV helicopters, a large crowd
gathered as police officers holding guns pulled two men
from the getaway vehicle. Several hundred people, many of
whom had seen the drama on their TV screens, gathered
around the police at the crime scene and city police came
to help control the crowds.
The police are urging people to return the stolen money, so far
without any success.
- _____ of the bank robbers have now been caught.
