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Let's Just Drop By the Bank

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
A friend with wheels is a friend indeed.

That's what Nicholas L. Cabot of Cleveland must have thought when he persuaded a buddy to give him a ride to a bank — which, according to police, Cabot promptly robbed.

Cabot, 64, allegedly approached his 70-year-old neighbor, whom police did not name, on Monday morning, Aug. 2, and asked for a lift to suburban Willoughby.

"I got a 10:30 doctor's appointment," the neighbor said Cabot told him, according to WEWS-TV of Cleveland. "And we can go to the bank."

So the two men, friends for 50 years, piled into the neighbor's green Mazda and set off.

First stop was a Bank One (search) branch in Eastlake, where police said Cabot handed a teller a note reading: "This is a holdup. I am armed, so don't force me to take a hostage or hurt anyone."

He quickly received a bag with $2,000 in cash, according to The News-Herald of Willoughby, and then told the teller, "Have a nice day."

Cabot and his chauffeur proceeded to the doctor's office, but unfortunately, their bank detour had made them late. The appointment had to be rescheduled.

"So we start coming home ... and there was four or five police cars behind me," the neighbor told WEWS. "I ask Nick, 'Did something happen?' and he didn't say nothing."

Eastlake Police Lt. Bill Gutowski told The News-Herald that Cabot was financing a crack cocaine habit and faced up to 13 years in prison.

He said the neighbor would not be charged.

[Swiss James]

same things happened to the keyboard player from The Charlatans and he ended up in the slammer

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