It's probably good that one was studying theater, it might have helped him try to pull this one off as regards sentencing. Not only were they busted for robbing the bank, the day before they fired four shots into the glass window of a check cashing business in a failed attempt to rob that. But, it's okay ... the high cost of tuition made them do it. I guess that's no longer an issue, they'll likely get a free ride on all the prison correspondence, or on line courses they can take. How freaking special is that?
CINCINNATI - Two college students say the high cost of tuition led them to rob a bank.
The men pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated robbery and six charges of kidnapping. They face 20 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 27.
Andrew Butler, 20, a theater major at the University of Toledo, told Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Steve Martin on Monday that tuition increases outpaced his scholarships and financial aid.
Christopher Avery, 22, who was studying engineering at the University of Cincinnati, said he couldn't pay for summer classes after an internship at a grocery store fell through.
"I was strapped for cash," Avery said. "I thought I had nothing to lose."
An attempt to rob a check-cashing business a day earlier was thwarted when the students couldn't get through the business' security system despite firing four shots at the bullet-resistant glass, Goodyear said.
I dunno... but the sheer abject terror of going to jail and being made into a buttsechs puppet for "Bubba" more than overwhelmingly trumped any desire to roll a liquor store (much less a bank) when I was strapped for college funds.
Rather, grunting out a few years of low-paying jobs and a half-time credit loads seems to have worked, along with enslaving myself to decades of loan debt.
I'll guess Andy and Chris (above) will have to see what Prof. Bubba and the School of hard knocks is all about, after they get sentenced.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 at 10:21 AM
seek, I think these guys were too dumb to be in college anyway.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 at 11:04 AM