Former Co-Worker of Mine Arrested for Bank Robberies

[Tom Petty]

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 ...

Have your people call my people.

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.

 

[User 1019]

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.

 

[Angola!]

i can't believe i missed the toothpaste thread.

Random Thoughts I, IIRC.

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.

 

[forever_town]

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.

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

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

There was this rare coins place in Worcester that had really old coins embedded in the linoleum in the floor. This guy broke into the store in the dead of night and took a blade and cut up the linoleum into pieces (the rest of the coins were locked in a safe). The same guy went back into the coin store the next day to write up the break-in for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. The guy was sweating bullets thinking the owner of the store would know he was the guy who did the deed. When the owner told the "reporter" that the coins in the linoleum were worth less than $50 - the reporter fainted. The owner thought he was having a heart attack.

The reporter was never found out and now works for the Boston Herald.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

I once worked at a paper where the cops/court reporter was arrested for DUI and spent the night in jail. He kept his job and his beat. Worst paper ever.

 

[Angola!]

I once worked at a paper where the cops/court reporter was arrested for DUI and spent the night in jail. He kept his job and his beat. Worst paper ever.

Same thing happened at my old paper, though the lady (who was extremely unattractive) first offered to give the cop head and after he declined she started yelling at him to call the Chief, because she knew him.

She wrote a letter of apology and then was fired about 2 months later.

 

[HC]

A good friend of mine from high school had a psychotic break in his early twenties and killed 7 members of his family. Not funny. Just true.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

And good morning to you, ma'am.

 

[Football_Bat]

In terms of criminal activity, bank robberies are pretty high risk/low reward - the average haul is typically around $3,000 max from a "note pass." The good news is, when you get caught you go to a federal facility, which in most cases are nicer than state pens with a better class of criminal.
Some of the stuff done with identity theft though is pretty inspired.
Maybe I should have posted this on the "getting out of the business" thread.

I knew someone about a dozen years ago who did the "note pass" thing and got 10 years for armed robbery because he pretended to have a gun. But it was a state rap, not federal. Probably a good thing because he was out on parole in about two. No parole in federal PMITA prison.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Well, I worked with the guys who screwed the picnic table. That's pretty much all I got.

Well, I once killed a drifter to get an erection [Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond]

 

[hondo]

I once killed a man to watch him die.

Was it in Reno?

 

[Drip]

I've known people who have committed felonies including one on death row and a few others serving life. I have family members incarcerated.
Things happen. Some people decide to go down paths that will put them behind bars or worse.

 

[MacDaddy]

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.

A guy I used to teach with and was once pretty good friends with got busted for meeting one of his students in a car across from school, smoking pot with her and having her perform sexual acts on him. Happened almost daily for a number of months. Pretty shocking -- none of us who knew him had any idea he'd do anything like this. More shocking was that his wife stuck with him.

 

[Tom Petty]

a co-worker of mine received an open container at my last stop.

 

[Matt Foley]

Slightly different from the other posts here, but I went to high school with Patrick Denehy, that Baylor basketball player who was killed by his teammate a few years ago.

 

[cougargirl]

My sophomore year of high school, the quarterback/coach's son stabbed another guy to death over a girl.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

And then there's my ex-girlfriend, but I think she was in jail about the same time she was old enough to work.

Just looked her up. She'll be out March 10, 2018.

 

[Tom Petty]

My sophomore year of high school, the quarterback/coach's son stabbed another guy to death over a girl.

did he deserve it?

 

[Moderator1]

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.

A guy I used to teach with and was once pretty good friends with got busted for meeting one of his students in a car across from school, smoking pot with her and having her perform sexual acts on him. Happened almost daily for a number of months. Pretty shocking -- none of us who knew him had any idea he'd do anything like this. More shocking was that his wife stuck with him.

Ages?