Man robs store, apologizes, waits for police

Chris Spags Founder and Editor

While this hasn’t been the case with this recession, typically when an economy goes into the crapper, there’s a massive rise in crime as a result of people being desperate for money. But this Portland man who robbed a FedEx then apologized and waited outside to get arrested doesn’t make sense in any economic situation.

Portland police said a man handed an apologetic robbery note to an employee at a FedEx Kinko’s store, then waited for police to arrive. Employee Paul Rhoney said the note said: “This is a robbery, I’ll wait outside for police, sorry.”

Police Detective Mary Wheat said responding officers found the 46-year-old man outside the store Tuesday morning and took him into custody.

Wheat said no robbery charges will be pursued because the man did not have a weapon and didn’t carry out a robbery. Police believe he simply wanted to go to jail.

It seems premature to me that they want to charge this man with a crime. If TV and movies have taught us anything, it seems painfully obvious that this man clearly is being forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse with some nefarious villain. And now that he’s going to jail, he’ll get important information from some bad guy and have to shank a few others and he’ll be doing it all to achieve a simple piece of redemption for all of the other bad things he’s done.

I say this without knowing any background or even the man’s name, but I say let’s just save him the effort and throw him a parade now. At the very least, if he’s not some sort of modern day antihero, it’ll really screw with his probable mental illness if he’s released from custody and put right into the lead float of a ticker tape parade in his honor.

[Yahoo News]

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