If the multitude of fictional works about bank robberies have taught us anything, it’s the importance of a getaway vehicle when trying to conduct the perfect crime. Movies like Drive and Baby Driver have made this into the stuff of high art; last year, S.A. Cosby’s superb novel Blacktop Wasteland pushed the subgenre into a higher gear. But in the more mundane world, finding the perfect solution to the getaway car conundrum remains a challenge.
For one Texas man, that challenge was one he readily accepted — with a particularly resourceful solution.
The New York Post has the story of one Eric Dion Warren, who was recently sentenced after pleading guilty to federal bank robbery charges. In 2019, Warren drove to a bank near Lubbock, Texas where he brandished a weapon — which turned out to be a pellet gun with a paint job — and asked for $10,000 in cash. Once he’d received the cash he sought, he drove to a car dealership and finished paying for a BMW he’d been in the process of buying.
How did he get to the bank, you might ask? He got a loaner from the car dealership and used that to make his way over. Warren was eventually arrested at the car dealership. Evidently, creativity can only get you so far.
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