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underpants

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Thu Jun 27, 2019, 07:48 AM Jun 2019

Man who robbed bank to get away from wife sentenced to home confinement

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/14/kansas-man-who-robbed-bank-to-escape-wife-gets-home-confinement-sentence.html

A Kansas man who robbed a bank last September and told police that he was hoping to get caught so he would get prison time to escape his wife was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement after pleading guilty, the Kansas City Star reported.

Lawrence John Ripple took the guilty plea in January. He told the judge Tuesday that he had heart surgery that left him depressed when he committed the bank robbery, the paper reported.

His public defender told the court that Ripple had lived a law-abiding life and was in a stable relationship with his wife. He has four stepchildren, the report said.

Ripple handed a note to a bank teller in Kansas City demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money, $2,924, and went to sit in the lobby, where he told a guard he was the “guy he was looking for.”
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Man who robbed bank to get away from wife sentenced to home confinement (Original Post) underpants Jun 2019 OP
This was from 2017! Old story! Nt USALiberal Jun 2019 #1
That's the funniest thing I've ever read. MasonDreams Jun 2019 #2

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
2. That's the funniest thing I've ever read.
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 02:38 PM
Jun 2019

Reminds me of the country song title, " you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, four hungry children and a crop in the field".

But much better is the Beat Farmers cover of that song, "you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, four ugly children and a crotch that won't heal"

Cruel and unusual? If he did have a gun ?(mandatory minimum) If she was like my ex ?
(just joking) If the step kids were crazy like thier mom and ugly (just kidding)
Maybe the judge's ruling is unconstitutional.
(just kidding)

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