If you saw your dad on TV robbing a bank, would you turn him in?

[Evergreen Emerald]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/29/robber.sentence.ap/index.html

[hobo_baggins]

1. Nope, bloods thicker than water baby...

unless he didn't give me a cut, at which point, i'd shank him, then turn him in.

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. he got 40 years!

Yikes!

[Shell Beau]

2. No! I would hate knowing that he did it, but that is my dad.

I would encourage him very strongly to turn himself in.

[SOteric]

4. That sort of depends. I talk with him first, but then,

I'm not an officer sworn to uphold the law as was the kid in the article.

I can conceive of it being possible that I'd turn my dad in in such a circumstance. Luckily for me, it's unlikely he'll take up such a hobby.

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. that is true, he did put his child in a difficult position.

The article said he spent the money on crack and prostitutes. Perhaps the drugs clouded his judgment. Also: he lost his job and had trouble getting another one, which of course has political connotations.

[Shell Beau]

9. It does depend on the dad. My dad being who he is

and knowing what he stands for, no I wouldn't. If he was a cracked out kind of guy, probably.

[Evergreen Emerald]

18. I also can't imagine anyone in my family doing that

His kids seemed like decent guys, which tells me he was a good dad at one time (or they were decent despite him)!

I wonder how much the loss of job affected him and how much the drugs changed him.

[Shell Beau]

20. Drugs (or addictions) can change a person totally!

They aren't themselves anymore. They live for the high! It is sad really.

[AngryAmish]

5. No, he's dead.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. I am sorry.

How about your mom? Your brother. Your best friend?

[AngryAmish]

12. Mom's dead too

Don't have a brother.

Still wouldn't rat. Stop snitchin'

[Evergreen Emerald]

15. Sorry again.

:(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. no. nor any other family of mine...or friend

[Left Is Write]

10. If I saw my dad on TV robbing a bank...

I would assume that a family history of Alzheimers had caught up to him.

[bleedingheart]

11. Maybe...

to be honest before long he would have gotten caught and guess what...I wouldn't want to be doing time in the pokey for being an accessory if there might be proof I knew what he was doing and did nothing to stop it or turn him in....

Also...what if your parent starts giving you cash and gifts that are stolen??? Then you are receiving stolen property..

Additionally, what if his father killed someone in the next heist...? These people lived in a small community...it is one thing to have your dad put away for robbery...imagine being the kid of a man who killed the father or mother of some young kids???

On one hand there is family loyalty on the other hand there is being a good citizen...plus the father was robbing banks to keep a girlfriend and a cocaine habit...it wasn't like he was feeding starving orphans....

[Evergreen Emerald]

14. very good points

accessory after the fact / receiving stolen property / accomplice. The fact that his son is a police officer is also a consideration.

He was certainly not thinking of his family.

[bleedingheart]

17. drugs have a way of making people forget about family...

and common sense...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. maybe.

if it were a violent robbery, which put others' lives in danger - - yes. if it were not, i would talk to him about it first.

[northzax]

16. is there a reward?

cause that would help.

[Evergreen Emerald]

19. hahahaha

I see!

[edbermac]

21. What if it was a sperm bank?

:shrug:

[Dukkha]

22. They probably ratted him out because

they didn't get a cut of the loot

I always referred to the unabomber's brother as the unasquealer

[LostinVA]

27. "unasquealer"? Really?

He randomly killed and maimed innocent people. I consider his brother a hero, who made a very courageous choice. Murder and robbery aren't the same thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. I'd have to do something: dad's dead, and that'd be a hell of a miracle!

I think I'd be calling everyone!

"Man resurrected from dead: sadly, turns immediately to crime"

It would be sad, but, well, yeah, if it was my dad, I'd HAVE to report it!

[DS1]

24. What TV?

I didn't see any TVs ;-)

[Evergreen Emerald]

25. That is the best answer!

[LostinVA]

26. If he was spending the money of crack and prostitutes, yes

I probably would anyway, but it isn't like the guy was using the dough to feed world hunger -- or even his own.

[Deep13]

28. Yep.

He would expect me to do so. Ones duty to country is higher than duty to family.

[pitohui]

29. my dad wouldn't rob a bank

and if he did he'd have a better reason that being a crackhead supporting a string of hookers

yes, it was mean-spirited and evil for kids to turn in their own father, but imagine the hate that had to have built up in that family

the judge is just kidding himself to say the kids turned him in out of a sense of doing the right thing, betraying an elder is not the right thing to do

but it is understandable in this case

[William Bloode]

30. Not in a million years.

Or even if it ment i might go to jail myself. I might ask for a cut though :evilgrin:

[lovelaureng]

31. Yes, without question. nt

[Fleshdancer]

32. no. with all that cash, I would blackmail him.

:D

[bigwillq]

33. No

I wouldn't think it was right for him to be doing that but there's no way I would turn him in.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. If the circumstances were the same as this story, I would have attempted

to get him help, staged an intervention long, long ago. It appears this man was spiraling out of control for some time. I would hope that I would respond in a different way than this man's sons...and get my own father the help he was screaming for years ago.