A 49-year-old seventh grade English teacher in New Hampshire was arrested last week for robbing two banks in Massachusetts and one in Connecticut, walking away with as much as $3,000, police charge. After robbing the bank in Plainfield, Conn., she went to nearby Mohegan Sun Casino, police said.
The description given by the three banks was that of a short, middle-aged woman, wearing a heavy winter coat and scarf, police said. She was unarmed and slipping tellers hand-written demands on envelopes.
After being arrested and released on bail, she was ordered by a judge to undergo evaluation by Gamblers’ Anonymous.
Can anyone think of another government program that can turn a seventh grade English teacher who appears as “a short, middle-aged woman, wearing a heavy winter coat and scarf” into a bank robber? Has such a bank robber ever existed?