http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ban ... ?section=&Man Claims He Robbed Bank Because Jail Is Better Than His Wife
The 70-year-old sat in the bank lobby just waiting for the police.
09/07/2016 01:04 pm ET
A 70-year-old Kansas man who’s accused of robbing a bank reportedly told arresting authorities that he’d rather be in jail than living with his wife.
Lawrence John Ripple made that shocking remark following a robbery Friday at a Kansas City bank, The Kansas City Star reported.
Ripple allegedly handed a bank teller a note that demanded cash and warned that he had a gun. After collecting the money, he sat down in the bank’s lobby and waited for police to arrive. He also identified himself to a security guard as “the guy he was looking for,” The Associated Press reported.
Ripple later told investigators that he had been arguing with his wife and wrote the bank teller note in front of her. He said he would “rather be in jail than at home.”
He was arrested on two felony counts of robbery and aggravated robbery before being released Wednesday, online records show.
It’s not clear whether he returned home to his wife.
Doing hard time
Doing hard time
Re: Doing hard time
Love it!! 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Doing hard time
I guess he really wanted to get away, at all cost. A long vacation in Hawaii would have been much cheaper.
I'm not sure about going to prison but, the King James version of Proverbs 21:9 says:
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
I'm not sure about going to prison but, the King James version of Proverbs 21:9 says:
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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