One chilly winter morning in 1995, two unlikely criminals were about to embark on a daring adventure. It was on January 6 in the streets of Pittsburgh when McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson decided to make their mark in the world but in the most peculiar way.
They planned to rob not one, but two banks in broad daylight, armed with nothing but a sense of misguided confidence and a baffling belief in the power of citrus fruits.
McArthur entered the Mellon Bank and went up to the teller with a semi-automatic handgun clutched in his trembling hand. With a shaky voice, McArthur demanded to hand over the cash. The teller, probably suppressing a chuckle, handed them a sum of $5,200 without much resistance.