Unemployed Man Robs Former Employer to Convince Family He's Still Employed

No worries — we had to read the headline twice, too. Martyn Goddard, a discount worker, lost his job. Instead of telling his family, he robbed the store that laid him off to get some cash as faux income! He wanted to convince his family he was still working.

According to The Telegraph, the prosecuting attorney explained, “His wife had been badgering him for a couple weeks as to why he had no money. He spent the previous evening at her house and said that he was going to see his employer about wages owed to him.” 

In order to literally show his wife that he was still working at the store in northern England, he whipped out a knife and demanded to see the safe.