He Really Should Have Watched The Movie

Here's an important life lesson for all you would be bank robbers out there. Wearing a Ronald Reagan mask to perform your bank holdup is bad enough, but never, ever wear a cape.

SAN DIEGO - A man suspected of bumbling an August bank robbery while outfitted in a Ronald Reagan mask and a cape was arrested. During the Aug. 29 robbery at a Bank of America, the masked robber stumbled to the ground after his gun got tangled up in his cape, and his getaway vehicle got boxed in by delivery trucks, forcing him to inch backward and forward to bash his way out.

After he finally fled, a dye bomb went off in the car, staining the money. The robber abandoned his SUV, and police found it with the mask, the gun and a $50 bill inside.

Gerald Jones, 29, of San Diego, was arrested in connection with the crime Thursday.

It is really too bad nobody got a video of this. It sounds utterly hilarious, like something out of a slapstick comedy. Police connected him to the crime by recovering DNA from the mask. However, he really could have avoided the entire thing if he had simply watched - and learned from - the movie The Incredibles. "No capes!"