Hank and Stash are lifelong friends. Stash is the driver of a red Chevy Lumina as the two hoods pull into a parking lot late Thursday morning.

It’s obvious the two are on some kind of villainous mission. Stash steps out of the car wearing a Lone Ranger mask and carrying a Mac 10 sub-machine gun. They open the trunk and remove what looks like a Russian AK 47 assault rifle.

All this is being done in broad daylight, so it should have come as no surprise when they hear police sirens a short distance away. Tossing the guns back into the trunk, Stash jumps behind the wheel and starts peeling tires as Hank leaps in on the passenger side.

Two blocks away they spot a marked patrol car blocking the intersection. Stash makes a 180 degree turn, then hangs a quick left only to see another black-and-white blocking the next intersection. Each of the blocking patrol cars has two uniformed cops armed with shotguns waiting behind opened car doors.

"I don’t like the looks of this," Stash says to Hank with alarming frankness. Stash crawls out of the Chevy with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol in hand, then begins running down an alley.

His escape route is blocked by two more cops, these on foot and also armed with shotguns, stationed at the end of the alley. Meanwhile, back in the Chevy, Hank is beginning to know how General George Custer felt at Little Big Horn. He sits quietly, "assuming the position," waiting for cops to order him out of the car.

Police never do find out what crime the fearsome twosome were planning, but the captured creeps could not look detectives in the eye once they found out how the cops caught them.

Hank and Stash were picked up on a video surveillance camera as they pulled into the parking lot to check their guns - next door to police headquarters.