Community Chat

[Silver Lotus]

Christopher Miller robbed the Stride Rite shoe store in Toms River, NJ, in 1999, got caught, and served 15 years in state prison. Police say he became a free man on Friday and celebrated by catching a bus to Toms River and, yes, robbing the same Stride Rite shoe store, reports the Star-Ledger. Though he had 15 years to stew over what went wrong the first time, authorities say this robbery didn't go so well, either. Two employees were so slow in handing over cash that the "agitated" robber grabbed the register drawer himself and fled on foot, reports the Ocean County Signal. (The employees refused to hand over their keys, scotching any hopes for a getaway vehicle.)

They called the cops—the apparent plan was to tie them up in a storage room, as happened in the 1999 robbery, but the employees refused to go—and within minutes, a police K-9 unit tracked down Williams and recovered the stolen $389, reports the Daily Record. Miller is charged with robbery and is being held on $100,000 bond. The 40-year-old is from Tulsa, Okla., and police aren't sure what his connection is to Toms River, besides maybe nostalgia.

http://www.newser.com/story/184318/cops-man-freed-after-15-years-robs-same-store.html

[stilltamn8r]

Wow, you can't make this stuff up!

[foundinlv]

He obviously wanted to return to prison where he had guaranteed food and shelter.

[stilltamn8r]

On 3/25/2014 ~foundinlv~ said:

He obviously wanted to return to prison where he had guaranteed food and shelter.

...and shoes......

[foundinlv]

On 3/25/2014 stilltamn8r said:

On 3/25/2014 ~foundinlv~ said:

He obviously wanted to return to prison where he had guaranteed food and shelter.

...and shoes......

[DJs mom]

I saw this on the Today Show this morning...unbelievable. Some people are stuck on stupid!

[lulu2]

On 3/25/2014 ~foundinlv~ said:

He obviously wanted to return to prison where he had guaranteed food and shelter.

That is exactly what the reporter doing the story said.

[raven-blackbird]

On 3/26/2014 DJs mom said:

I saw this on the Today Show this morning...unbelievable. Some people are stuck on stupid!

or maybe...........just a man who after 15 years has become institutionalized and knows he can't live out in the world any more.........so he did something to make sure he could go ""home"".........................................raven

[DoneTryin]

Well, he's either nuts or dumb like a fox & wanted to go back to prison so he'd get his free "3 hots & a cot."

[Catitude]

Very sad. Sounds like he learned nothing during his incarceration.