Bank Robbery = Free Health Care

From the WTF files, aka The New York Times, a man in North Carolina attempts to rob a bank in order to get free health care:

James Verone, an unemployed 59-year-old with a bad back, a sore foot and an undiagnosed growth on his chest, limped into a bank in Gastonia, N.C., this month and handed the teller a note, explaining that this was an unarmed robbery, but she’d better turn over $1 and call the cops. That, he figured, would be enough to get himself arrested and sent to prison for a few years, where he could take advantage of the free medical care.

Because he only asked for $1.00, the crime isn't going to carry the three year sentence he was hoping for.  Mr. Varone describes himself as a "logical person":

In a television interview last week with a local news station, WCNC, Mr. Verone explained that he was hoping for a three-year sentence, which would give him a place to live and free health care until he was old enough to collect a Social Security check and buy a condo on the beach. “I’m sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with,” he said.

Good grief.  He should have just attempted to be an illegal.  Or at least done some research on the charity hospitals in North Carolina.