Passing the Buck

Three daring men in La Grange, Indiana committed armed robbery on an Amish man riding a horse driven wagon. On an open roadway, they pulled around the Amish buggy and used their car to block traffic. The buggy stops. The robbers wield guns. The horse must have been as surprised as anyone. Looking down the barrel of loaded guns, the Amish man surrenders his wallet without incident. There is no truth that the car’s tires spat pebbles at the Amish man but the hooligans staged an easy getaway nonetheless. A horse entering a chase is a poor substitute for real horsepower. Bet the house when any old Ford races a clumsy chariot.

It goes without saying, bullies select easy targets but this was a little bit off the beaten path for armed robbery. The Amish aren’t known for carrying large sums of money in their possession. To the contrary, they are simple hard working people who live off of the land by bartering goods and commodities. The odds were slim to none that the Amish man would be couriering a bank roll and so no sure score was to be had. What were the robbers thinking? The suspects were arrested a short time later. The stolen wallet was returned to the rightful owner. All of the money was recovered from the robbery. You see, the wallet contained exactly one dollar. The robbers may have passed the buck but in the end the buck stopped here.