911, what s your emergency? yes. i m calling about that bank robbery at pnc bank, summit town plaza. august 28th, 2003, a bizarre robbery is reported at the pnc bank in erie, pennsylvania. yeah, what happened? the guy just walked out with i don t know how much cash in a bag. he had a bomb or something wrapped around his neck. minutes later, the suspect is arrested and handcuffed. but strangely, he s not hauled off to jail. instead what happens next leaves a police force and an entire town scratching their heads in utter disbelief. i don t know if i have enough time. the bank robber is brian wells, a pizza delivery man. strapped to his neck and shoulders is a bomb, attached with a crude looking metal collar that locks.
so there s a lot of human interaction. but unfortunately, what s best for the puppies may not always be what s best for the store. because the puppies are out in the open for people to be able to play with them and touch them and hold them, we ve had a number of thefts. these dogs can cost anywhere from $500 to $2,500. but it s not the loss of revenue that bothers cindy most about puppy thefts. a man walked in the store, stopped and looked at that puppy, and he reaches through the hole and pulls the puppy out by its neck, puts the puppy under his shirt, and walks out the door. it was devastating that he could handle a puppy that way. the puppy could have died if he would have broken the dog s neck. cindy quickly releases the tape to the local media and says, thanks to viewer tips, the puppy is recovered in good health. the bow wow bandit is arrested and pleads guilty to grand theft. this next canine theft is more of a team effort.
a few feet from the edge of the falls. when we first got up to him, the water was literally running completely over his face. i could see his eyes he was looking up at me under the water, looking at me. it was surreal. i never will forget this as long as i live because his arm was outstretched. he s almost losing the ring. pat reaches under and grabs the only thing that he could, the fingers that are out of the water. and he had him just by the four fingers, and he s holding him. i pulled as hard as i could. i was able to get his face out of the water so he could breathe. he could breathe and talk. he just told us, let me go. he just gave up. he said, save yourselves. let me go. let me go. we more or less had some choice words for him and told him that we didn t come this far to let you go now, that all of us are going up. you ve got to help us. carella manages to get underneath the victim and is able to slip a harness around his body. once the harness is on, he wraps h
footing, we ll end up under the ice under the water, and that was the last thing i wanted to have happen. moriarty can t know it yet, but he would soon face his greatest fear. but for now, they inch out into the raging waters, hoping to get the man a life ring. onshore, a rescue worker finds a suicide note from the man now fighting fiercely for his life. but carella and moriarty know nothing about the note, and they re able to make contact with the victim. we wanted to reassure him, tell him that we re coming to get you, we re here for you. he was able to yell loud enough that i can t stand here much longer. i m cold. and he said he s getting weaker. carella and moriarty can t stand there much longer either. we could feel our feet being pulled from under us, and we looked at each other and i said, this is going to have to be a no-go. so plan b kicked in at that time. and fortunately plan b arrives from the air. captain kevin caffery hovers
state police corner wells, barely 100 yards from the bank, in the parking lot of an eyeglass center as employee dina mcphee watches. they cuffed him, and then he must have said something about a bomb or said that he had something on him because then he the police officers proceeded running in different directions. as the area is evacuated, cameraman dan holland holds his position. he has his lens trained on the scene where wells is trying to convince the police he was forced to rob the bank by someone else, the same person who put the bomb around his neck. i m not lying. did you call my boss? the man was strangely calm. he was just kind of sitting there. i mean i know if i would have had a bomb on my neck, i would have probably been in a panic mode. as witnesses and media look on, wells talks out loud about the bomb to anyone who will listen. he pulled a key out and started a timer. i heard the thing ticking when he did it. it s going to go off.