# So they finally caught the people who set up that pizza guy who robbed a bank

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**Created:** [December 4, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-finally-caught-the-people-who-set-up-that-pizza-guy-who-robbed-a-bank/475640 "2008-12-04T05:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-finally-caught-the-people-who-set-up-that-pizza-guy-who-robbed-a-bank/475640/21 "2011-08-06T04:47:42Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> What’s the update part? What new stuff did they learn?

I read a great deal of details about this case a long time ago, and it doesn’t seem to me that there is anything new revealed within the body of that article. But it does have a link to a [detailed application for a search warrant](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/08/04/pizza.bomb.affidavit.search.warrant.pdf) (.pdf) that I don’t believe was released until relatively recently.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-finally-caught-the-people-who-set-up-that-pizza-guy-who-robbed-a-bank/475640/22 "2011-08-08T18:07:43Z")

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An upcoming movie (a comedy, no less!) has some similarities to the case, too: [HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/07/30-minutes-or-less-pizza-bomber_n_920610.html?ncid=webmail6)

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-they-finally-caught-the-people-who-set-up-that-pizza-guy-who-robbed-a-bank/475640/23 "2011-08-08T19:37:20Z")

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> [@Zebra](#):
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> But now, hilarity ensues!

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> An upcoming movie (a comedy, no less!) has some similarities to the case…

From the _HuffPost_ link: _The movie’s handlers acknowledge the screenwriters were “vaguely” aware of Wells, but say the movie - in which two ne’er-do-wells force a pizza driver to rob a bank while wearing a time bomb vest - isn’t based on the infamous Pennsylvania collar-bomb case, and especially Wells’ grisly, tragic death._

Nah, of course not. _Why_ would anyone think it’s based on an extremely notorious crime that was covered extensively in the press, TV, radio, etc.? :rolleyes: Since when do screenwriters take the painful details of someone else’s tragedy and warp them into a wacky comedy for the purposes of obtaining filthy lucre. Never, I say! Never!

Cheezncrakrz! Some people are _so_ cynical!

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