Take the money and roll

My aunt, who has worked all her life in special education, always taught me not to underestimate people with disabilities. She said that they can often do things just as well as able-bodied people. I don't think, however, that this was exactly what she had in mind:

Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late this afternoon with a black handgun.

After the stickup, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street toward El Camino Real, a major thoroughfare.

Witnesses say the man's legs were wrapped in bandages and his right leg was sticking straight out while he zoomed away.

Police are looking for a white Ford van that the suspect may have been hoisted into after the robbery.

Assuming that whoever hoisted him into the van wasn't also in a wheelchair, wouldn't it have been easier for that person to go in and commit the robbery?

Oops. My aunt would be disappointed if she found out I'd made an assumption like that.