A man claiming to have a hand grenade took eight hostages in a bank, and released six of them before fleeing on a motorcycle and crashing into a car.
| My first read of that sentence had him taking the hostages into the bank. I was wondering if he gave them money. He released six of them and seems to have put the remaining two on his motorcycle. Being overloaded is probably what caused him to crash into the car, huh? |
The two remaining hostages were released unharmed from the bank in the southeastern city of Alicanter, a policeman there said. The hostage taker was taken off in an ambulance after the crash.
"Owwww!"
"You gonna let the hostages go yet?"
"Owww! Call me an ambulance!"
"You're an ambulance!" |
The 25-year-old man initially said he had a grenade and threatened to detonate it unless he was given a gram of cocaine and food.
| "Dope! I needs me dope! An' a sammitch." |
He then released the six hostages one by one.
| "one little, two little, three little hostages..." |
A motorcycle was later brought for him by police and he briefly left the bank with a hostage to try it, before returning inside. He later used the motorbike to escape but crashed into a car some 330 yards from the bank.
"Owww!"
"Hey! That's my car! What're you? Some kinda ambulance?" |
His father also came to the bank to try to persuade him to surrender during the 12-hour standoff.
"C'mon, Sonny! Give it up! You look like an idiot!... Come to think of it, you are an idiot!"
"Hey! What kinda father are you? What about my self-esteem?"
"Go ride your motorcycle!"
"Okay! I will!... Owww!"
"Stupid ambulance." |
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