Word: stander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here is how you do it: jump on a bike and pedal in a straight line. Brake abruptly, spin the bike over the jammed front wheel and stand semiupright on "fork stander" pegs that you have attached to either side of the front tire. When the maneuver is completed, pedal off nonchalantly. Congratulations. You have just freestyled. You are a "bike breaker." Go join skate boarders and break dancers in the Street-Life Hall of Fame...
...mill criminal would have fled Fort Lauderdale in a flash. Not Harris, who was in fact Andre Charles Stander, 36, a former top detective and police captain in South Africa. Son of a police major general, Stander had inexplicably taken to robbing banks. Found guilty of several heists in 1980, he and a fellow convict, Patrick McCall, 34, overpowered three prison guards last August, escaped, and later broke into another prison to free Allan Heyl, 31, a friend. The three quickly began knocking off banks, some 20 of them, as many as four in one day. As they hopped from...
...Stander, skilled in disguises and schooled in police tactics, always spoke softly to terrified tellers. "If one can be polite when threatening someone else with a gun, Stander was," said one victim. Stander drove a yellow 1975 Porsche, rented three posh homes in suburban Johannesburg, and even when on the lam used to jog undetected amid police stakeouts...
Police learned of one of the gang's houses, raided it on Jan. 30, and killed McCall. Stander, who was not in the hideout, used phony identification and flew to Fort Lauderdale. South African police also seized a $200,000 yacht bought by the gang and scheduled to be delivered to Stander in the Florida city. Stander learned of the yacht's discovery from a newspaper story-the same one that betrayed him to Tomasello...
Joining a police stakeout in the neighborhood, Tomasello spotted Stander riding a bicycle. After a short chase, the cornered fugitive raised his arms and shouted, "I give up!" Then he seized Patrolman Michael Von Stetina's shotgun and pointed it at the officer. Von Stetina killed Stander with three pistol shots. Even South Africa's Minister of Justice seemed saddened by the demise of his erstwhile nemesis, sending condolences to Stander's family...