Rip Torn is under arrest

Rip Torn arrested for bank robbery

Actor Rip Torn was arrested late Friday night in Connecticut after breaking into a bank through a window. With a loaded gun. Yeah, you don't really want to do that. From Reuters:

Torn, 78, was being held on $100,000 bond after state police responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bank in Salisbury, the Connecticut town where the actor lives, and found him inside the closed bank "with a loaded revolver" and "highly intoxicated," according to a police report issued on Saturday.

He was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief and weapons charges.

Torn, who won an Emmy for "The Larry Sanders Show" in 1992, has most recently appeared in several episodes of "30 Rock" as network head Don Geiss. He starred in the hit film "Men in Black" and its sequel, as well as scores of other films and television shows over six decades. He was nominated for an Oscar for "Cross Creek" in 1983, two years before his wife, Geraldine Page, won the Best Actress Oscar.

Ouch, how embarrassing. In Rip's defense, he actually thought he was breaking into a gay bar that was running a half-off appetizer special for anyone wearing assless chaps. Wait a minute . . . that's way more embarrassing. Dammit, I hate when I do that.

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gerwen

He thought they were hosting an intergalactic kegger

Jon H

I wonder if he *really* broke into the main part of the bank, or if he just broke into an ATM vestibule in the entrance to the bank.

Nameless

Wow that's this is one way of getting out of having to do Men in Black 3.

Well I guess if you are a 78 year old alcoholc, you've lived long enough not to give a f*ck. Breaking into a bank with a loaded gun is gangsta.

V-4-Vendetta

They showed his last DWI arrest on one of those craziest arrests shows. He had slurred speech, could barely stand, and tried the "Do you know who I am?!?" defense.

The moronic jury let him off. I hope he drives over one of their loved ones...

Stacey

I was in mid-sip of a cup of tea when I read "Yeah, you don't really want to do that" and for some reason it made me choke. Thanks for that.

Anonymous

Its OK. He was just following orders from The Mothership. The Mothership is in control of The Northeastern U.S. and the government in Washingto DC.