This Guy Robbed A Bank Just To Get Healthcare In Jail

[Swede]

Just saw this on facebook.


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With a undiagnosed growth on his chest and two ruptured disks, Richard James Verone needed medical attention and to get it he handed a note to a bank teller demanding $1.

Verone walked into an RBC bank in North Carolina, handed the teller the note, and she gave him the money. Then, according to the Gaston Gazette, he sat down and waited for the police to show up.

He said, “I didn’t have any fears. I told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police.”


Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-21/news/30006920_1_bank-teller-rbc-bank-health-insurance#ixzz21qFvirGb

[Scuba]

1. Welcome to America.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. How horrible.

Never been in trouble with the law before. Desperate time call for desperate measures I guess. Every politician on the Hill should get a copy of this story.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. I remember when the story first appeared last year thinking to myself how fiendishly brilliant

this guy was. Or maybe it was a similar story about a guy who needed 3 hots and a cot for a couple years until he could start getting Social Security and who researched meticulously exactly what offense he would need to commit as a first-time offender looking at mandatory minimum sentencing. The judge's hands were tied and the perp played his cards brilliantly.

Just posted to my FB page with a call for others to do the same. It's called fomenting insurrection - hope that's not a violation of some arcane DU codicil.