Former Co-Worker of Mine Arrested for Bank Robberies

We're all going to need second careers.

 

what do you know about ID theft. you could work the east coast, i could work the west ...

 

Not co-workers, but three people in my high school graduating class are in prison for separate murders. One guy killed his wife, another his brother-in-law (who had convinced his wife to leave him) and a third stabbed some guy to death over $50.

 

Have your people call my people.

 

Unless dude pleads guilty immediately, it's REALLY BAD to say he was "arrested for" bank robberies.

"Arrested and charged with" is preferred wording.

I've written crime stories and briefs over the past year and a half.

 

I have relayed this story before, but it's worth another try.
At a smaller paper several years ago, I was the slot guy. I found my ability to make deadline was compromised when two cops entered the newsroom and arrested my composing/paste-up person. They escorted her out of the building after a brief chase. NEver heard what the charges were.

 

I had a good friend of mine from college get arrested for meeting an underage girls on AOL and, well, you probably know the rest. It was a complete and utter shock, especially to find out about it reading an out-of-town paper. After he posted bail, I tried to contact him to figure out WTF happened, holding out hope that somebody I knew well (or at least thought I did) wasn't capable of doing something like that, but all the numbers I tried were disconnected. He wound up pleading guilty and was sentenced to 10 years. I think he's out now.

Man, I haven't even thought about that whole deal in years.

Makes me wanna puke, to channel Mike Gundy. I guess the cliche the cops say is true. "Anyone is capable of anything." Either that or he harbored a dark side that he kept well-hidden.

It puts you in a tough spot as a friend because you want to be supportive and don't want to turn your back on somebody. But, at the same time, you can forgive somebody that steals out of desperation. Somebody that is caught burglarizing. Or even somebody that snaps and beats somebody up. Some things are just unforgivable, I guess.

 

But how does he know your people are really your people? Maybe they are his people who stole your people's identities... then he's negotiating with his own people.

 

i feel like a teenage girl who's trying to solve an algebra problem.

 

A friend from high school -- and I mean a really good friend -- is on death row in Alabama for killing three people in a Selma-area pawn shop robbery, wounding another and walking away with about $75.

 

It was a Super Bowl thread.

The 2006-07 Super Bowl. I remember because I posted like twice during the game because I was at a co-workers house and then didn't get back online for about 6 hours, just to find about 50 PMs demanding to know the story.

 

Now that's what I call doing more with less.