What he did was hand the clerk a note that said: "This is a bank robbery, please only give me one dollar." Then, as he later told the local NBC news station, he calmly sat in the corner of the bank having told the clerk: "I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police."

...

He invited the paper to send a reporter to interview him in Gaston county jail, where he is now in custody facing charges of stealing from a person (for just $1 the prosecutors didn't think they could hold up a bank robbery charge).

He told the paper he had lost his job after 17 years as a Coca-Cola delivery man, and with it his health insurance. He was in increasing pain from slipped discs, arthritic joints, a gammy foot and a growth on his chest.

Since being in the jail he has attained his goal: he has been seen by nurses and an appointment with a doctor is booked.

Greatest country on earth!!!!

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Healthcare is such a basic human right. Single payer for all (Medicare) should be our priority. The wealthy look at everything as theirs. Anything that needs to be done in society is "why should I pay for that?" I have a friend who makes a lot of money and he said that people who work hard should be rewarded and I asked him if he meant people who work hard or if he meant people who earn a lot of money and he didn't know what to say.

again?

(2011)

... oh. um, ok

The US treats its people worse than its prisoners. And I bet some idiots out there think it means they should start treating their prisoners worse.

Years ago, I have read that Mongolian street children in the capital, Ulan Bataar, would intentionally steal to get arrested so that they would have a warm place to stay during the cold nights in Mongolia.

America has now stooped this low.

I hear this has happened in Japan as well. Some elderly folks without family stage stickups for a good meal and a place to stay. What a fucking world we live in.

I always wondered why more homeless people didn't do this in the us

Creative debt bondage

This weirdly feels like it'd be a good movie, sort of like Dog Day Afternoon. "The One Dollar Bank Heist"

Jail is basically my retirement plan if all else fails (and it probably will)

That must be a good State.

Most State prisons will torture and starve you until you die. You can buy food and soap at outrageous surcharges.

Dang George Carling looks fucked up! Ever since he died he hasn't said anything. Not one joke. Not even an utterance. A limerick about Jesus! Fuck no! No riddles or really cute stories about poo bear or the stupid train Thomas the dumbass. But seriously, if he was alive he would look just like that because of everything that's been happening. Reminds me of the "fucking dog" bit...thrown up on the counter with us asking for another god dammed Georgy.