Will You Watch My Beer? I Have to Go Rob This Bank…

PORT RICHEY, Florida -Authorities say that a Tampa Bay area man ordered a beer in a local bar, disappeared to rob a bank, and returned 30 minutes later to finish his brew.

Things happen all the time that I can’t seem to wrap my head around, and most of them revolve around the odd, whimsical stupidity of criminals. You may have heard of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama bank robbery earlier this year where a woman drew a fake beard on her face with permanent marker to disguise herself. Maybe you read on Inquisitr last year about the Long Island man who robbed a bank – dressed as the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader.

But this story is unique among them, at least for its simple practicality. Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is saying that 52-year-old John Robin Whittle walked into Port Richey’s Hayloft Bar on Thursday afternoon and, according to the bartender, ordered a beer and then disappeared for 30 minutes. Whittle then went down to a Wells-Fargo branch, robbed it, and then walked his happy self back to the Hayloft, sat down, and resumed drinking his presumably flat, lukewarm beer.

Police arrested him at the bar 10 minutes later.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when those police walked into that bar.

Whittle remains in jail as of today with a $10,000 bond. It is currently unknown whether or not he bought Hayloft patrons a round of shots to toast his short-lived success.

I guess the reason this really bothers me is that I can’t divine anything about the man’s priorities.

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