20 June 2011 ~ 2 Comments

The best healthcare in the world

If you’re rich. The rest of us just have to be creative!

A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report.

He then sat down and waited for police to arrive. “… I say, ‘I’ll be sitting right over here, on the chair, waiting for the police,’” Verone told reporters, recalling the June 9 robbery in an interview from Gaston County Jail.

[...] “He’s sitting on the sofa as you walk in the front door,” the bank teller said in a 911 call.

[...] Verone said he asked for $1 to show that his motives were medical, not monetary, according to news reports. With a growth in his chest, two ruptured disks and no job, Verone hoped a three-year stint in prison would afford him the health care he needed.

2 Responses to “The best healthcare in the world”

  1. dandy 20 June 2011 at 11:52 pm Permalink

    The Revolution is gonna be televised! What a goddamned shame in the wealthiest country on earth……………….makes me wanna holla…………………

  2. jawbone 21 June 2011 at 10:52 am Permalink

    And, worse, since he wants health care, they probably will give him probation…a death sentence goes with that, it appears.