By Tim Binnall
A Florida man found himself in hot water with the law following a weird incident wherein he walked into a closed bank that was inexplicably unlocked. According to a local media report, the curious case occurred on Saturday evening when police were alerted to a masked man wandering around a Wells Fargo Bank in the community of Hobe Sound. When they arrived on the scene, there was no one there and they later discovered that, for reasons unexplained, the security company waited an hour to contact the cops about what appeared to be a bank robbery in progress. The case got even stranger when authorities checked the footage of the incident and discovered that the man had simply waltzed into the bank, which happened to be unlocked at the time.
A subsequent investigation led police to Colton Vanhonhenstien, who was identified as the man in the video by way of security footage from a nearby gas station where he bought a bandana that served as his makeshift mask. When questioned by the cops, he claimed that he had merely gone to the bank to withdraw some money and, upon seeing that no one was there, looked around the place a bit before leaving empty-handed. Despite not actually taking anything, Vanhonhenstien was arrested for burglary of an unoccupied structure. While he will undoubtedly argue that the incident was a simple mistake, one imagines that authorities will point to him opting to wear a mask as a sign that something more sinister was afoot but apparently failed to come to fruition.