<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Getaway]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Getaway]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/getaway http://jalopnik.com/tag/getaway <![CDATA[ Granddad Robs Bank, Makes Getaway On Wheelchair ]]> Normal granddads sit on porches in their boxers and yell at little kids to get off their lawn, they don't, as a rule, rob banks in Palo Alto, Calif. Although, this is exactly what happened earlier this week at a Wachovia bank. A man described as between 65 and 70 and bearded rolled into the bank in his electric wheelchair and proceeded to rob the place at gunpoint. He then rolled out the door and got away scot-free. He may have rolled into a wheelchair van for his ultimate getaway, but we like to think gramps managed to succeed in the slowest escape ever. [NBC11]
photo credit to StreerodStuff

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Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:00 EDT Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=378460&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Getaway Drivers: Real-Life Transporters for Hire? ]]> wheelman_1.jpg

"We will not cater to you and serve you wine
and food. We will pick you up from any location, under any circumstance, and get you safely to your destination as fast as possible, without "capture."
— Text on Getaway Drivers Web site

With the descriptions of its services strangely cryptic (not to mention all the spelling errors), Getaway Drivers' Web site might as well be the online front for an identity-theft ring. We're still not sure it isn't, but if you take the company's come-on at face value, it provides wheelmen (and women) for those in need of a "quick getaway." According to the site, the Getaway Drivers' drivers are all certified by the Underground Drivers Association, a group so shadowy it defies Google. The only thing we know for sure about Getaway Drivers is that the company's Internet domain was set up by online security firm Domains by Proxy to protect the owner's identity. Pretty sneaky, sis.

Getaway Drivers [via Sports Car Market]

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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:33:59 EDT Mike Spinelli http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=122213&view=rss&microfeed=true