A 22-year-old Georgia woman was arrested this past Wednesday for robbing a bank. Police nabbed Channel Monae Gaskin while waiting to catch a bus.
Gaskin had made her way out of the bank with a bag of cash containing a dye bomb. The dye bomb exploded, covering Gaskin's clothing in bright orange dye. She was able to make it to a public restroom where she changed clothes and stashed the cash.
Once she had changed into her new outfit, she walked to the nearest bus stop to wait for the next bus. Not surprisingly, police recognized and subsequently arrested Gaskin.
One might wonder what would possess someone to believe they could use public transportation as a "getaway vehicle." Interestingly enough, Gaskin admitted she had robbed another bank in a nearby town by using the same method.
How patient do you have to be to wait for a bus while an entire city's police force is hunting for you? Say what you will about Ms. Gaskin's lack of morality -- and maybe even her methods -- but one thing is for certain: Patience is a virtue she does not lack!
Fortunately for that bank and the citizens of Sandy Springs, Georgia, that patience is the virtue that foiled the getaway!
Let's cultivate patience in our own lives...and let's put it to better use than Ms. Gaskin.
The Bible says,
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
James 1:4, ESV
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