RSSMan Diguised as a Tree Robs Citizen’s Bank in Manchester, NH (James Coldwell Arrested)
If you were a bank robber, what type of tree would you be?
aka: When Tree Huggers Go Bad
(Maybe someone would like to explain just how a person could walk into a bank dressed like a tree and security not think some thing might be just a bit off?)
Truth is always stranger than fiction. Yesterday, an individual walked up to a bank teller of the Citizen’s Bank branch at 1550 Elm St. in Manchester, NH with tree branches duct taped to his body and demanded money from the bank teller. Surprisingly the teller did not actually break out into laughter. It really makes one wonder how a man walking into a bank with tree limbs ducted taped to himself would not raise suspicion. Only in New England I guess.
The teller filled a bag with cash and the suspect took off. A dye pack inside the bag exploded, the Web site reported.
Manchester cops described the man as a white male, between 45 and 50 years old, wearing glasses and a blue shirt
Man in tree garb robs bank branch
Police Detective Sgt. Ernie Goodno, who said the robber was a white man, standing 5-foot-8, with a thin build and very dark hair. The robber was also wearing a bluish-colored T-shirt, possibly with red trim, and blue jeans. He also had thick glasses
UPDATE I: James Coldwell, The Tree Bandit,Chopped Down to Size and Arrested
Though images captured by the bank’s security cameras weren’t much help because of the branches and leaves, police said an anonymous tip led them to James Coldwell, 49, of Manchester. He was arrested at his home Saturday night and charged with robbery. (Boston Globe)
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Obviously a Northeastern tree hugger. LOL, this is like a Monty Python skit!
The story sounds so insane it does actually make for great Ponty Python.
Headline should have read … WHEN TREE HUGGERS GO BAD.
R
lol money does not grow on trees
Maybe he read Macbeth recently. “Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him”.”
EGAD! Me hopes it was poison ivy!!!!!!
I think that I shall never see
A bank robber lovely as a tree.
Wow, now that really takes commitment, bro.
Maybe he was method acting, maybe he was
in “THE ZONE.” I’m not sure WHICH zone, but a
zone nonethless!
If you dress up like a dang tree to rob
a bank…. you might be a redneck! -Foxworthy
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SM: Only issue is … ye be a yankee.
R
strange….i just saw this on nbc’s To Catch a Preditor last week. the police were trying out the cop camaflagued as a bush jumping out to stop a preditor running out of the house.
i hate copycats
Leafy not beefy?
Obviously it’s the fascist establishment oppressing an innocent environmentalist. Well, that line won’t play as well in New Hampshire as it might in Vermont … where nobody gets punished anyways.
OK, I finally figured it out … the bank’s address was on North ELM St. I guess it follows that you go in dressed as a tree.
As Red says, this is one of those stories which, if you read it in a book, you’d think was too stupid to be possible. Only in real life ….
THE TREE GUY
..
When he stopped near the bank… a dog ran up
and sprung a big ol’ whizzer on him!.
The stink was trackable for 10-15 city blocks.
:LOL:
It was a dead giveaway. Hey tree man,
Sianora brass pole!
Maybe he made a wrong turn looking for Gore’s Earth festival (or whatever they called it) and became disoriented. Sounds like a good excuse for a defense lawyer to use.
Brenda