 What would have likely happened if the bank robbers' car tires had not melted?
The three bank robbers looked like triplets. She fell unconscious to the floor, and all three of them ran out of the bank to the car out front, in which sat a very nervous-looking fourth man, gunning the engine. Two police cars came driving down the block and a half from the precinct house to the bank, and the car with the four robbers in it lurched away from the curb and drove straight down the street toward the police station. "What I can't figure out," said Stevenson, "is exactly what made those tires do that. The bank robbery occurred in late June. By chance, a mobile television unit was at that moment on the Belt Parkway, returning from having seen off a prime minister at Idlewild Airport.
 The robbers would have gotten away from the scene.
 The car would have wrecked regardless and the robbers would have been caught.  The police would have stopped them in a chase.  The robbers would have gotten away from the scene.  The robbers would have later returned to rob the bank again and get caught.