“Okay, guys, here’s the plan: We need a getaway vehicle, so we sign out the church van, we hold up a gas station, we return the church van. Nobody will ever know it was us.”
Except for the fact that it’s a bright red 12-passenger van with the words “First United Methodist Church, Decatur, Illinois” on the side, and except for the fact that on the way home to Decatur after a Springfield holdup in the wee hours Thanksgiving morning, whoever was driving couldn’t drive right, so the Macon County Sheriff’s department, patrolling I-72 between Springfield and Decatur for holiday drunk drivers, pulled them over.
The article doesn’t mention anything about DUI so I’m assuming it was just sloppy driving. Hey, those big vans, those are hard to drive sometimes, it’s like driving a school bus…
In today’s paper was a short blurb, which isn’t online yet. Formal charges have been filed against all four of them–armed robbery, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and not having a firearms owner identification card.
Add to that, “aggravated unlawful use of a church van”.
and BTW, two of them have confessed to the November 22 robbery at the Decatur Ayerco and the Springfield Thanksgiving robbery
so it’s them all right
I can hardly to wait to hear who runs the Van Committee down at First United Methodist
We have a Van Committee at OUR church, and you better believe that at any given moment, he knows EXACTLY who has either of the vans signed out, and what they want it for, and where they’re going, and when they expect to be back, and they’d jolly well better not bring it back with no gas in it–Christian charity can go only so far.
