Police: Man With Walker Robs Bank

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A 75-year-old man who robbed a bank in Vancouver, Canada didn't try to get away in the typical getaway car, but instead used his walker, the Ottawa Citizen reported.

Authorities said the man, who was not identified, walked into a Prince George Bank of Nova Scotia and told the teller that he was armed. The employee gave the elderly man the cash and he left using his walker.

Canadian police responded to the call and were told that the man was wearing a straw hat, white T-shirt, grey jogging pants and dark glasses.

The man didn't get very far, and was caught in the same shopping plaza that the bank was located just 45 minutes after the robbery, the Ottawa Citizen stated.

Spokesman for authorities, Gary Godwin, said, "It's not every day you get a 75-year-old male on a walker holding up a bank. We're looking at all the circumstances that are involved."

The man is not a stranger to police, but Godwin did not elaborate.

Crimes committed by the elderly are unusual, but not unheard of.

This summer, in a far more serious crime, a 90-year-old South Carolina man plead guilty to murdering his 89-year-old wife, WKBW-TV reported.

John Bunz confessed to hitting his wife in the head with a hammer 30 times, killing her.