Sad times in bank robbery. Jeff W. Walser started to rob an Independence Bank of America branch but just couldn't keep it together. The 51-year-old claimed he had a bomb but refused to run away with the sacks of money. From this morning's Kansas City Star:
This is just uncomfortable. It gets worse.Finally the employee asked, "Do we need to talk?"
"Yes," Walser reportedly replied.
The
two walked to an empty conference room where Walser reportedly opened
his briefcase and showed that he didn't really have a bomb.
The employee asked whether everything was OK.
"No, everything is not OK," Walser said, and then asked the employee to call police.
Walser has "health problems" and feels "alone, discouraged and tired of working." And here was his grand scheme:
He purportedly told authorities that his plan was to be arrested but
not tell police that he required thrice-weekly dialysis treatments to
survive.
"I wanted to be arrested and I wanted to die," Walser is
quoted as telling interviewers. "But after my arrest, I did not have
the will to kill myself."
Geez. Now, the irony: Walser is a 12-year employee of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures bank deposits although not
against robbery.
At the time of the alleged robbery, Walser was on leave.
Guessing it's going to be a much longer leave now.
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