Have you heard about the 1962 bank robbery at Driver, SK?

This interesting story was revealed in the “Land of Plenty” history book. The 1962 crime report was as follows:

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a bandit was killed when his escape car overturned after stealing $20,000 from the Royal Bank of Canada in Driver, Sask. The bandit entered the bank wearing a nylon stocking over his face and threatened to explode dynamite among the staff if they didn’t give him the money.

RCMP discovered the overturned car in a ditch near Driver, Sask. Police said all the money taken from the bank was found in the car. Crime didn’t pay for the lone bandit, whose identity was not revealed.