DING! DING! DING! No more calls, please, we have a winner!
Posted on 09/14/2009 2:45:59 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
An semi-armless teenager who acted as getaway driver on a jewellery heist, driving at 100mph during a police pursuit "despite needing somebody to change the gears for him", has escaped jail, the Telegraph reports. John Smith, 18 - who has no arms below the elbow - was in charge of a Ford Focus during the robbery of Ernest Jones in Hempstead Valley shopping centre near Rainham, Kent, on 17 December last year.
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You really have to hand it to that kid........
He just waved bye-bye to his freedom when the catch him again....oh, wait, never mind.
Dr. Richard Kimball, call your office.
A inspiration to all people suffering a similar disability, bad is still to the bone, arms or no arms.
Was a legless man changing the gears for him?
Well I guess the gang couldn’t very well have used him as a trigger-man
Look mom, no hands ping.
DING! DING! DING! No more calls, please, we have a winner!
This story has legs.
Betcha he laughed when they brought out the handcuffs.
Very humerus.
He's perfectly 'armless.
That's better than being semi-armless and having no arms above the elbow.
You'd keep leaving your semi-arms lying around places.
Sign in the window said “Driver does not make change.”
...but did they run his prints to see if he has prior arrests?
And the thread is posted by Wobbly Bob. It doesn’t get any better than that.
As to how the perp was able to drive the getaway vehicle, even the police were stumped...
Hold muh beer.
Uh, you mind holding the gear shift too?
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