Guilty plea for 70-year-old KCK bank robber who chose prison over living with wife
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article128245824.html
... "The bank he robbed is a block from Kansas City, Kan., police headquarters.
The robbery was captured on bank surveillance video that showed Ripple hand a note to a teller. The note read, 'I have a gun, give me money,' according to court documents.
The teller handed over $2,924, but instead of fleeing, Ripple sat down in the bank lobby.
When a bank security guard approached him, Ripple told the guard that he was the person the guard was looking for, according to the documents. The guard took Ripple into custody and recovered the money that had just been taken.
Later, when questioned by police and FBI agents, Ripple said that he and his wife had an argument earlier in the day and he said he 'no longer wanted to be in that situation,' according to the affidavit filed to support the bank robbery charge.
Ripple said he wrote out his robbery note in front of his wife and told her he would rather be in jail than at home. He then said he walked to the bank and committed the robbery."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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