If the owners want to add the latest sensation who left an audience in stitches, they'll need his mug shot. Three days earlier, Macon's so-called ''bicycle bandit'' had made his third getaway in more than a year, pedaling away after holding up tellers with a rifle. Matthews' impromptu stage act got him booked into the county jail. I was on the microphone, and I pretended I was whispering. No doubt Matthews stole the show.
Police think so.
If a jury decides Matthews wasn't kidding, he could be sentenced to life in prison. Three times in the past 14 months, a masked man walked into a bank and fired a warning shot from a rifle before robbing the tellers and escaping on a bicycle. Police were stumped before Matthews' bizarre one-night performance.