You’ve really got to hate someone enough to choose prison over them.

But that’s exactly what Lawrence John Ripple did. Clearly not one for idle threats, Ripple not only told his wife he’d rather be in prison than be at home with her, but he actually robbed a bank and then sat and waited for police to arrest him.

Thinking he was headed to prison, Ripple was hopeful at his sentencing, only to receive home imprisonment.

You can’t win em all. Or in this case, just one.

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