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(CNN)   Bank robber, 91, arrested: "It's fun. I feel good, awful good. I feel good for sometimes days, for sometimes hours"   (edition.cnn.com) divider line 43
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matt4684
2004-03-28 10:41:17 PM
This deserves a tag
 
Seth_J
2004-03-28 11:37:26 PM
So I'm guessing this story is a year old?

Funny line:
In jail awaiting sentencing he met a man who knew how to rob banks --successfully. This part, he insisted, is true.

Begs the question of why he was in there too.... :)
 
mizike
2004-03-28 11:59:23 PM
Hehe, that guy rules.. just not at robbing banks.
I grew up in that area and let me tell you, if people there were smart enough to fool the dumb local cops, there would be a lot of unsolved crimes. Hell, it's the best place to dump a body since they rarely find the perp.
 
Jay-Tea
2004-03-29 03:09:14 AM
He's reached 92 and is serving a 12-year sentence, the equivalent of life for someone his age.

It would be funny if he survived until 104, got out and put his good health down to robbing banks.
 
vizui0
2004-03-29 03:13:38 AM
"In prison... He'll be the pie."

-Jay and Silent Bob
 
tankdilla
2004-03-29 03:14:29 AM
Yeah that's the way I see my life ending too. One last rebellious act, sending me to prison for the rest of my years, where I die of a heart attack from butt sex. Oh wait, no I don't! What the hell was this guy thinking?
 
Sweeny03
2004-03-29 03:18:50 AM
I can only hope that when I am that old my stones are still as hard as that man's are.
 
Arcanum
2004-03-29 03:19:28 AM
i'd hit it
 
vaporlock
2004-03-29 03:21:03 AM
Robbing 91 year old banks? He needs to branch out.
 
DenverDawg
2004-03-29 03:27:14 AM
Damn... does this guy remind anyone else of Cotton from King of the Hill??!?
 
l.i.m.b.o.t.h.e.l.a.w
2004-03-29 03:28:02 AM
aww so cute...

bless that cagey ol' codger
 
Phil McKraken
2004-03-29 03:31:13 AM
Cute story. I figure I'll get a motorcycle when I am 85 or so. A fast one. With lots of plastic and stickers. I figure my spine will be properly shaped by then.
 
neutron5o
2004-03-29 03:35:22 AM
If anyone's interested, GQ did a much larger story on this guy for their February 2004 issue. It's a great read and is what CNN based its story on. Oh, and Tandkilla: he didn't get sent to PMITA prison. He went to a prison for older inmates where--I'm assuming--the PMITA part is a little less frequent.
 
smile [TotalFark]
2004-03-29 03:38:11 AM
Although Rountree is appealing his sentence, he says he's not sure he wants to get out.

"What would I do at my age? Rob another bank?" he says, laughing.


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Bahaha, great sense of humor for someone so old. Cool guy.
 
Trik
2004-03-29 03:55:27 AM
sounds like he was hoping for suicide by cop or bank guard...
 
abdul
2004-03-29 04:06:37 AM
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. That guy is a supermegapimp, and I hope he escapes from prison at 93.
 
tankdilla
2004-03-29 04:16:19 AM

So cool!
 
Iron Felix
2004-03-29 04:32:02 AM
"He once made millions as a businessman."

Awesome, he's not in it for the money.
 
REDARMYVODKA
2004-03-29 04:43:03 AM
sweet.

someone bust that guy out so i can buy him a beer. :)
 
Golfer
2004-03-29 05:03:50 AM
Damn! I just hope I can go to the bathroom by myself at 91.
 
EvilScientist
2004-03-29 05:20:25 AM
This guy is my hero.. When I get older it would be awesome to rob people of millions, steal away to third world countries, and invigorate local communities while living like a fat rat, returning every few years to do it again. I don't know if I'd go to heaven or hell, but I'd feel I deserved it wherever I wound up.
 
digitalgaijin
2004-03-29 05:25:59 AM
God bless him, he knows he's going. What other rush can a 90 yo man get. I wish I could buy him a beer.
 
SrWapo
2004-03-29 06:11:11 AM
Man in jail for life after unsuccessfuly robbing three banks = Dumbass

91 year-old-man in jail for life after unsuccessfuly robbing three banks = Hero

I'd still agree with a Hero tag, I'm just amused.
 
malbien
2004-03-29 06:27:56 AM
--Two customers chased Rountree as he headed across the parking lot to his idling truck. One knocked him down with what felt like a karate kick. "I went out. I went away from this world," Rountree said.--

HAHA. Someone went kung fu on him.
 
IrieTom
2004-03-29 07:04:18 AM
He must have seen the movie "Going in style"
 
jerkburger
2004-03-29 07:38:18 AM
You're the man now, dog!
 
Picklehead
2004-03-29 08:00:47 AM
Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, I got you

Why do I see this old codger singing this James Brown song while driving away from the bank?
 
NeoBad
2004-03-29 09:21:47 AM
"...maybe I'll get a gun and rub the Foodway...I could kill the manager as an added bonus...."
 
Raicilla
2004-03-29 10:02:16 AM
He's an extreme idiot. Extreme idiot's in America generally make bank. Witness the parents of the drain pipe baby (Jessica), John and Lorena, Tonya Trailertrash, Buttafuco, ad nauseum. I guess ole peckerwood here just got a little confused.
 
perisoft
2004-03-29 10:36:53 AM
Extreme idiot's

Somebody hold me back.
 
Archstanton
2004-03-29 10:56:35 AM
my website addresses this issue, or at least it will soon!

www.shmoe.net
 
Pav
2004-03-29 11:02:47 AM
Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaw
 
missmez [TotalFark]
2004-03-29 11:05:06 AM
We need a gulag for old people. People are living far too long these days.
 
Sinister Steve
2004-03-29 11:05:07 AM
I know if I ever grow old and become unable to pay for housing and health insurance I'l just commit a crime and let the state pay for everything.!!! Muwahhaahaa
 
RaoulDuke
2004-03-29 12:03:54 PM
the weird thing is, if this guy was 20 years old, you would probably be screaming for his head on a platter...
 
d0da
2004-03-29 12:40:06 PM
way i look at it is:
he's 90 something years old
he wasnt doing anything violent
he never got away
he lead a successfull life before
he jsut did it for some fun
and hes happy as a pig in shiat... good for him!
he knew the concequences, and didnt really expect to get rick quick, he just did it for fun
 
daveuf
2004-03-29 12:56:27 PM
Funny line:
In jail awaiting sentencing he met a man who knew how to rob banks --successfully. This part, he insisted, is true.

Begs the question of why he was in there too.... :)


I was thinking the same.....
 
bludgraf
2004-03-29 01:30:59 PM
Lonely old man with nothing left to lose. That's the long and short of it.
 
EvilHamster
2004-03-29 01:40:26 PM
I think i've seen a movie like this before.
 
CheekyMunky
2004-03-29 02:40:38 PM
Goddammit, tankdilla, everybody in my computer lab is staring at the crazy laughing guy now.

A plus.
 
Virulency
2004-03-29 03:17:55 PM
what a guy... no regrets... doesnt that sound familiar? uh... american idol?
 
gitarkid
2004-03-29 03:42:04 PM
UR MY BOY BLUE!

\old school
 
GoGamecocks
2004-03-29 04:38:16 PM
Prison is no different than a nursing home. He will get free room, board and medical care.
 
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