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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:01 PM Aug 2013

Oregon Man Holds Up Bank For $1, Waits To Be Arrested To Get Health Care


Oregon Man Holds Up Bank For $1, Waits To Be Arrested To Get Health Care

Timothy Dean Alsip, 50, is homeless and needed health care, so he allegedly robbed a bank so he could medical attention.

Deputy Mark Nikolai, sheriff’s office spokesman, said a man entered the Bank of America branch, 9171 S.E. 82nd Ave., at 10:20 a.m. and approached a teller.

“He handed over a note saying ‘This is a hold up. Give me a dollar,’” Nikolai said. After receiving $1, he “had a seat in the lobby.”

Alsip, who told police he had no permanent address, does not have a criminal record in Oregon.

Nikolai said deputies determined that Alsip sought to be arrested so he could get medical care.


http://www.alan.com/2013/08/23/oregon-man-holds-up-bank-for-1-waits-to-be-arrested-to-get-health-care/


MORE here: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2013/08/clackamas_bank_robber_demands.html



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Oregon Man Holds Up Bank For $1, Waits To Be Arrested To Get Health Care (Original Post) Tx4obama Aug 2013 OP
Real life O.Henry story for modern times. morningfog Aug 2013 #1
Sadly, this becoming commonplace. JeffHead Aug 2013 #2
We do, if you're a 1%'er. wild bird Aug 2013 #3
Welcome to DU! Hydra Aug 2013 #8
Bob Dylan mick063 Aug 2013 #4
Reminds me of the film: John Q Tx4obama Aug 2013 #5
Sweet Jesus...Did any of you people read the comments (readers of the newspaper) ?? BlueJazz Aug 2013 #6
If that's the worst you've seen, you've must have never been to FreeRepublic davidn3600 Aug 2013 #11
From what the doctors tell me, I went there once. (They had to do an emergency memory erase.) BlueJazz Aug 2013 #12
From m collection Lancero Aug 2013 #7
I bet it won't work. Jenoch Aug 2013 #9
Why didn't he just go to the Politicalboi Aug 2013 #10
 

wild bird

(421 posts)
3. We do, if you're a 1%'er.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:11 AM
Aug 2013

Otherwise, you're right about the bullshit part and we do need single payer.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
8. Welcome to DU!
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:47 AM
Aug 2013

And actually, I know some people(and yes, they are assholes) with a pile of dough made through Citi, and lo and behold...their biggest fear is for their health.

Misdiagnosis is a HUGE problem. I've heard numbers as high as 45%, no matter what you pay. I can kick in my 2 cents as well, because I've been to many doctors and gotten nowhere until one of them gets a good enough hunch to figure part of it out.

We need single payer and a new way of looking at things- giving people various poisons and cutting things out of them or burning them out seems to have run its course as a good strategy for helping people get better.

 

mick063

(2,424 posts)
4. Bob Dylan
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:17 AM
Aug 2013

"When you ain't got nuthin', you ain't got nuthin to lose."


Those with nothing to lose will seek purpose and they inevitably will find it. The purpose will evolve into an inevitable movement to improve their collective lives. A horde of people with nothing to lose will follow inevitable leaders, from their own ranks, that are aligned with that purpose.

It is inevitable.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
5. Reminds me of the film: John Q
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:20 AM
Aug 2013

John Q (2002)

A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage ....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251160/

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
6. Sweet Jesus...Did any of you people read the comments (readers of the newspaper) ??
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:36 AM
Aug 2013

Talk about some sorry mother fuckers...son-of-a-you know what.
They blame the Libs and obamacare and socialism.

The most meanest, nasty pieces of human garbage I've ever read...

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
12. From what the doctors tell me, I went there once. (They had to do an emergency memory erase.)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:51 AM
Aug 2013

I've been rather OK since then...

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
9. I bet it won't work.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 01:11 AM
Aug 2013

Since it appears he did not use a weapon, he'll get put into some kind of diversion program. He will get a social worker assigned to him and if he's lucky, he'll get placed in some sort of shelter or half-way house. The streets have been hard on this guy, he's 50 and looks 70.

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