Many years ago I had met a person who was a brother of a very nice lady who lived next door to my girlfriend.
The brother was a bum, and his sister would allow him to live in her house rather than him be homeless.
One day just before Thanksgiving, I witnessed him deliberately throw a brick through a business window and wait for the police to arrest him.
The name of the game was the judge would sentence him to 4 months at Deer Island in Boston Harbor, where he would spend the winter, and reappear in the Spring. - Tom
Ha, I just posted a similar story. Rock through a window and you get free room and board.