As someone with a boat load of student loans, and a blogger of the topic, I like to Google “student loans” every couple days and just see what comes up in the news. Most of the time there is nothing too mind blowing, and there is the typical talk of some sort of student loan buyout or forgiveness, or another article on how someone hunkered down and paid their stuff off quickly. Today was a little different the the Google news.
What I did not expect was to hear about someone attempting to rob a bank in Wisconsin, wearing a Bucky the Badger hat. And, as one would expect of an article title “Alleged robber with Bucky Badger hat needed money for debt, complaint says“, it does get more interesting. Now, the guy owes $250,000 from loans he took out in the late 90′s and early 2000′s to earn a Bachelors in English, and a law degree. Yes, that is a whole bunch of money. So, naturally, he demanded the quarter of a million dollars from the teller, right? Nope. He just wanted $500, a mere 0.002% of his debt, because he was broke. And he is asking for the longest sentence possible. Something tells me that getting caught was part of his plan.
Since the “alleged” robber has both an English and a law degree, I’m really hoping this story will have some interesting movie-like twist to it. Maybe he will use this to show that the student loan system is corrupt, and it will have a “Life of David Gayle” feel to it? I don’t know.
Note to my readers: Unless you have Danny Ocean and 10 of his best friends, and you attempt this, it will most likely turn out the same way.
