Posted on 09/07/2016 11:25:09 AM PDT by Gamecock
A 70-year-old man charged with robbing a Kansas City, Kan., bank said he did it because he preferred a jail cell over living with his wife.
Lawrence John Ripple is charged in federal court with the Friday afternoon robbery of the Bank of Labor at 756 Minnesota Ave.
According to court documents, Ripple handed a teller a note that read, “I have a gun, give me money.”
The teller complied.
But instead of fleeing, Ripple took the money and then took a seat in the bank lobby, according to the documents.
When a bank security guard approached him, Ripple told the guard, “I’m the guy you’re looking for.”
The guard took the money from Ripple and held him until police arrived, which wasn’t long, because Kansas City, Kan., police headquarters is on the same block.
When he was questioned later by investigators, Ripple told him that he and his wife had argued and he “no longer wanted to be in that situation,” according to the documents.
“Ripple wrote out his demand note in front of his wife … and told her he’d rather be in jail than at home,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit filed in support of the robbery charge.
Too bad he doesn’t live in a “No Fault Divorce” state.
I’m guessing that’s the reason he won’t just divorce her.
Would a court make a 70 y/o retired man pay alimony to his exwife?
quite the looker isn’t he....I’m sure he was a barrel of laughs as a husband...
Why do husbands usually die before their wives?
Because they want to.
Old joke: People who marry economics majors from North Dakota live longer. Not really, but it certainly seems that way. I plead guilty to both.
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I believe that if I were the judge I would sentence him to home confinement and name his wife his jailer.
If it was that easy, we'd all be robbing banks.
Of course, if they did sentence him to house arrest they would have to arrest one or the other of them eventually for murder one.
He was channeling Rodney Dangerfield:
“How’s your wife?”
“Compared to what?”
sent back to his wife. ....Hell,yes. Bank robbers need punishment.
Imagine living the rest of your days trying to please some complaining, vapid, harpy.
Usually that describes the good looking ones too.
Lol
Looks like the Grecian Formula may have seeped into his brain.
Actually (and unfortunately) every state except New York is a no-fault state.
The bad news is that they will probably put him on house arrest.
You win the prize!
LOL
quite the looker isn’t he....I’m sure he was a barrel of laughs as a husband...
It sounds like she turned him that way. He was probably a happy go lucky, nice guy at one time.
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