Monday afternoon, Des Moines Municipalities Bank was nearly robbed by an armed individual, whose name has not yet been released by authorities. Teller Susan Holmes was confronted by a tall, hefty man demanding her to hand over the key to the bank’s safe, and Holmes politely refused and tapped a security button under her desk to alert officials, only to be held at ballpoint by the thief.
Construction worker Don Jameson sat shivering in fright at the scene. “That wasn’t no Sharpie or felt pen neither,” he claimed to reporters later, “that there was a genuine ballpoint pen.”
The other two customers in addition to Jameson trapped in the building at the time quickly got down on their knees with hands shielding the backs of their heads.
Chief of police, Daryl Watson, issued a press announcement on the matter commending the actions of the quick-thinking clients. “These individuals performed every action as they should. When you are confronted in a pen-up situation such as they were, it’s easy to lose your head.”
Officers arrived on the scene to confront the robber, a seemingly average Des Moines resident. “It’s always the ones you least expect that might be carrying a concealed pen,” Watson warned. Local officials were timid to fire shots, fearing such a jolt would cause the tip of the pen to come in contact with Holmes’s jugular.
Deputy Karyn Williams however, managed to approach the man, undetected, from behind and render the thief powerless by snatching the pen.
The individual was then taken away from the premises and placed in custody.
A tearful Susan Holmes thanked the officers who saved her that day, and plans to speak out on behalf of those individuals who remain silent yet are subjected to pen-related crimes.
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