Forbes.com: Man Robs Bank...for Health Care?

Having already set his affairs in order, James Verone calmly walked into an RBC bank in North Carolina and committed his first crime in his 59 years on this planet.
Verone handed the tellera note that read "This isa bank robbery. Please only give me one dollar," took the dollar from the terrified clerk, and sat down ona couch in the bank's lobby.
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"'I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police," Verone told the bank teller. And wait he did. Police arrived moments later and apprehended him, hauling him off to the jail cell he so desperately wanted to enter.
No, James Verone isn't crazy. He isn'ta career criminal. He didn't rob the bank to get drugs or booze. He didn't do it to get attention or ona lark. James Verone walked into that bank and committeda felony because going to jail was the only way he could receive the health care he needed to survive.
Verone is one man, but he could really be any one of us. He's 59 and well past the point of findinga new career. He was laid off from his 17-year job and, with unemployment hardly ...
http://blogs.forbes.com/benzingainsights/2011/06/21/man-robs-bank-for-health-care/
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