Man Robs Bank to Get Away From His Wife

Married life was so hellish for a Kansas man that he chose to rob a bank and get himself sent to jail to get away from his wife, reportedThe Kansas City Star.

The amateur robber was 70-year-old Lawrence John Ripple. Ripple held up Kansas City's Bank of Labor on Friday afternoon. Citing court documents, the Kansas City Star reported Ripple gave a bank teller a threatening note reading, "I have a gun, give me money." Once the teller gave Ripple the money, he took it and patiently waited in the bank's lobby—that is, until a bank security guard came up to Ripple and he confessed: "I'm the guy you're looking for."

Ripple would later tell police he was driven to the crime because of an argument with his wife, saying he "no longer wanted to be in that situation." An FBI agent's affidavit in the case read, "Ripple wrote out his demand note in front of his wife…and told her he'd rather be in jail than at home."

So yes, marriage can suck, but the fallout from relationships isn't any better—as we learned this week, when a scorned Florida woman set what she thought was her ex-boyfriend's car on fire. It wasn't.