“Marriage?…nope; jail ?…yep”—this incident throws my mind to the famous cover Choices. But is marriage that bad that one would deliberately have his freedom curtailed and live with a bunch of weirdos in a presumably over packed prison. Some of these things we chance upon makes marriage less desirable to be honest.
A 70 year old Kansas man, Lawrence John Ripple, reportedly told authorities that he had just robbed a bank because he wanted to go to jail instead of continue living with his wife.
According to Ripple’s affidavit, he wrote out his demand note in front of his wife and told her he’d rather be in jail than continue living in the same home with her, then walked into a Kansas City bank last week and handed a teller a note that read, “I have a gun, give me money,”.
Kansas City Star’s ace courts reporter, Tony Rizzo, the teller handed over a bag of cash and Ripple, rather than run away with the cash, sat in the bank lobby until police arrived minutes later.
He is said to have told a security guard who approached him that he was the “guy he was looking for.”
Ripple, who now faces federal charges, later told FBI agents that he and his wife had been in a fight and he did not “want to be in that situation.”