Of Gold Teeth and Imbeciles

17-year-old woman suspected in bank robberies
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As Appearing in Boston Herald:
By Brian Fraga / New Bedford Standard Times
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - Updated 42m ago
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NEW BEDFORD — A district court judge ordered bail today for two suspects in a recent string of bank robberies.
Kristopher Santillo, 21, of New Bedford, was held on $20,000 cash bail while Caitlin Ingham, 17, of Freetown, was held on $3,500 cash bail.

Police traced both suspects Monday to a room at the Dartmouth Motor Inn. Both were wanted on unarmed robbery charges stemming from heists in New Bedford, Dartmouth and Acushnet where they allegedly slipped notes to bank tellers demanding money.

During today’s arraignment at New Bedford District Court, prosecutors said both suspects admitted to robbing the banks. Witnesses identified them from photo arrays and from seeing their pictures in media reports.

Prosecutors said Santillo admitted to friends that he stole $5,000 from the Acushnet Federal Credit Union on Feb. 6. He reportedly posted pictures of himself flashing money on his MySpace [website] page, prosecutors said.

However, defense attorney Colleen Tynan said other witnesses gave conflicting descriptions of the suspect, and added that some witnesses identified other people. She said police did not find any money when they searched his New Bedford residence.

Complete coverage at the New Bedford Standard Times.

Parents, this picture is the best possible testimony for being extra watchful of your children, how they are doing in school, who they hang around with, and wether or not enough in being done in school AND in the home to educate your children about the dangers of drug abuse!

How do I know there is a question of drug abuse? Unless you've been living under a big whopping huge rock for, say, the last 20 years or so, you can instantly identify the reason why a 21 year old with a lower jaw full of gold teeth trying to look all "gansta'" would attempt three bank robberies in a short period of time and involve his 17 year old "old lady" as well. A sum of $5,000 for two drug addicts, probably for heroin and cocaine, would be gone is an extremely short period of time, less than a week at most. And the last photo of the pair in court (above) shows the tell tale signs of a young woman in the midst of withdrawal, not simply tears, real or for effect.

It's when I look again at the first photo attached to this story (right) and, as a parent of a teenage daughter at college, think of this genius smiling for the camera displaying his gold lower jaw, his character and intelligence for all the honest world to see I thank the Good Lord above she has never brought anything like this fool home. And if it's your kid running around looking like this and doing things like he did, they should put YOU in jail for raising such a hoodlum. Because THAT doesn't happen by accident.

 I look at the contrast in the photo and it scares me. I'm not unaware of the ways young ladies can be  just as capable of bad behavior that is entirely of their own making and decisions. I'm not blaming IdiotBoyClownFace for that at all. It's just I have to rethink that whole not wanting a gun in my house thing all over again.

Dudes....if you look like this imbecillic moron with a gold laden lower jaw, skanky looking body art covering your scrawny windpipe and hair that looks like a golden retriever with his head out a window in a moving vehicle on Rt. 495, I don't care if you are in Medical School, just try to date my daughter and you'll get the business end of a buggy whip! And in a more serious vein, there is no earthly excuse for any parent to allow such a young man to walk this earth full of these very obvious problems, nor a young lady to keep the company of such a young man, without someone doing something to stop it long ago. These problems crop up years before the point that young people are robbing banks.

And now I have to kick myself, hard,  for channeling my parents!