He Robbed 7 Banks... then RAN TO THAILAND!
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- 🔗 In this interview I meet Chris, a former bank robber turned dog saviour, to unravel the unexpected twists of his life's journey. At 28 years old, Chris was diagnosed with cancer, setting in motion a series of events that would shape his destiny in unimaginable ways.
🏦 Faced with the challenges of battling cancer, Chris found solace in the pain medications prescribed during his treatment. Little did he know, this seemingly harmless coping mechanism would lead him down a dangerous path of addiction, eventually pushing him to the desperate measures of robbing seven banks to sustain his drug habit.
⚖️ Serving a five-year sentence, Chris had a choice: let his past define him or embark on a journey of redemption. Determined to turn his life around, he not only secured a job upon release but also found a new purpose that would take him halfway across the globe.
🌍 Discover how Chris's life took an unexpected turn when he moved to Thailand and dedicated himself to the rescue and rehabilitation of stray dogs. From a life of crime to becoming a beacon of hope for these abandoned animals, Chris's story is a testament to the power of redemption and the strength that can emerge from the darkest of circumstances.
👁️🗨️ Join us in this emotional and inspiring interview as we delve into Chris's past, present, and the incredible impact he's making in the lives of those who need it most. Don't miss out on this tale of resilience, transformation, and the extraordinary journey that turned a bank robber into a hero for man's best friend. 🐾✨ #bankrobber #thailand #prison
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00:00 intro
01:33 cancer led me on a path to prison
06:15 Robbing 7 banks
15:31 How I got caught & getting sentenced
22:15 my life in prison
31:41 prison story: The Mob
34:40 Moving to Thailand to save lives
42:46 Do you have any regrets?
44:53 How to support TMTRD
link to support the great work Chris & Michael are doing saving lives in Thailand; tmtrd.org/
Great video Pete. Will definitely contact Chris and Michael! Cheers mate
This one is solid stuffs. from a bank robber, heroin addict, federal jail , finally a dog handler. Don't see anyone can get close to him. cheers, both of you,thank you.
What an inspirational man. We all make mistakes, it's how we move forward that counts. Well done to Chris.
absolutely
Pete easily becoming one of the best youtubers doing Thai content. Another cracking video.
Cheers Martin, I appreciate that mate 🙏🙏
I have one comment coming away from this interview. Through his darkest times, he was very fortunate in many ways. I tribute a lot to his parents. I believe that their strong social hard-working values somehow guided him out of this dark time. I smiled when he mentioned Anthony Bourdain, who was from the same area as him. Many of us were inspired by his travels. I just wish Anthony would have known how much he was loved by so many people around the world. We all know that Thailand is not for the weak. I hope he can stay strong and live true to his passions.
Thank you and yes, I’m thankful every day for having such incredible parents. Thanks for watching! 🧡
Definately not for the weak.one or two unfortunate situation can have you out there in a tight spot.learn from it
Great interview Pete, and great guest Chris. There is so much negative news these days it is nice to hear an inspirational story. Chris, best of luck to you and don't beat yourself up over your family, i am sure they are so happy you have found your purpose 🙏🏼
Great, Pete, for this wonderful interview. From drug addict (because of a dangerous drug prescribed by doctors at that time) to a great man, positive in his new life. To help, take care and defend these wonderful dogs in need of medical care and a shelter is one of the nicest jobs in life. All the best for Chris' future and happy life in "the Land of Smiles".
Love the wee bit about making things good with his parents again , resonates big time with me , great interview Pete , Chris a proper gentleman , hats off
Shout out to Chris .
South Jersey .
2nd chances
New beginnings
Blessed 🙌
🐕
Great video! Have met Chris a few times and he is such an awesome and genuine person. So glad he found Michael and TMTRD and i know they're glad they found him too ❤
What a great interview! You really let your guest talk and express himself and I think a lot of us appreciated it. Fantastic job.
Pete, for me this has to be one of the best interviews I've watched, I certainly agree with you saying about not wanting to share a prison cell with the guy, he looks like a bad ass gang member, but seeing him now, he now looks totally different, he's had an interesting life & has been through a lot with cancer, drug addiction & prison, but it's good knowing he has come out of all this a better person, some of your other interviews I've watched I have come away with the impression that some of there recollections are sketchy & possibly fictional, buy this guy in my opinion is 100% genuine.....
Brilliant, really glad you enjoyed it
Love this clip more than any other on the channel . Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
YOUR A STAR ,CHEERS MATE
I tried to find the cowgirl last year. She was on vacation. 😢
Chris is not a bad person, his situations of life leading him into that path without helps. Have a happy life Chris!! Wishing you all the best from England. Well done Pete for finding him.
Great story of redemption. Gotta love it ❤
Incredibly fortunate to only get 5 years! Happy that Chris found his path in life.
What an amazing smart lovely person. God bless you💪🙏💪
Sometimes life works out alright!!!
Life can take all sorts of twists and turns. Can only wish him happiness in what he’s doing with his life now.
Bruce is writing a song about it right now.🎉
Interesting video and nice guy. No big ego. This is one interview that is one of your best.
Great interview. Such a sincere guy. Much easier to listen to than some of your self engrossed guests
Awesome story! Thank you mate!
❤ the thumbnail mate 👍
😂😂😂
great interview and fascinating interviewee
Awesome interview.. keep up the good work
Interesting story.
Thanks for sharing
What an extremely fine man ! ❤⚘️
Great interview Pete!
thanks buddy!
I knew Chris's name, face and voice were familiar but couldn't remember from where. As soon as he mentioned Michael of TMTRD it finally clicked! Awesome story and experience which I'll have to finish watching later on.
Great video Pete. Very interesting story.
My buddy was prescribed oxy until he wasn't and then he switched to heroin until his money ran out, then he started robbing convenience stores. Ran over a clerk that chased him and did 10 years. Still sick as a dog, moved to Mexico for affordable care.
What about the cancer? I mean he had stage 4 with Mets everywhere and big ones too sounds like. He's given oxy for palliative care essentially so I didn't really understand when he talked about that only being appropriate for people terminally ill since that's what he was it sounds like.
So stage 4 just went away? Really confused.
Wish Pete had at least asked about that.
I’m Chris from the interview. Good question. What ended up working and leaving me cancer free was an experimental treatment (at the time) called high dose chemotherapy with a stem cell transplant.
@@christhaipherstem cell chemotherapy!? What was the chemical?
@@jefflinton Honestly I can’t remember. I was so freaked out I just went along with whatever the doctors thought would work best. They gave me a medicine to make me overproduce stem cells, remove those stem cells and stored them, overdosed me with chemo and put my stem cells back in. That’s the best way I can explain it my friend
Chris I hope to see you heaven. If I don't , you will no I didn't make it.
So proud you faced the test and pass!!
@@christhaipherThanks for replying Chris.
I wasn't meaning to quiz you it's just that part of the story wasn't clear to me. I understand that all this stuff tends to get jumbled up over time, which is why I'm sure you said stage 4 when you just meant metastic testicular cancer, as there is no stage 4 with testicular cancer, its staged differently than other forms of cancer and the highest is 3 and its subsets.
I had a Chidichimo family in my hometown in NY. I grew up with their children. Good family.
This’ll be a gooden, cheers 👍.
Buy a pup
And your money will buy
Love unflinching that can never die
My Man!! 🧡
Aewsome interview and great testimony from Chris. All the best with work..Very interesting.
My uncle did about a dozen banks in Florida and Arizona. He did a decade in AZ. He was like 18 when he was working. He was addicted to the rush of blow + welcome to the jungle + cash. He got out of Florence around 2003. He did well for about 15 years until he started slamming H again, and they found him commitose in his car in a park. RIP uncle Ben. BTW, this dude didn't explicitly say it, but bank robbers are the top of the pecking order in prison. He was modest.
Sorry to hear about your uncle. Heroin is pretty much a death sentence these days. Glad I quit before fentanyl jumped on the scene
Moral of the story, pay attention to your children. Regardless if they are "adults" they are still your kids & human. Dealing with all of that as a young man alone, dont blame him for going astray.
Great story !!! Loving a job would be for sure half the battle !!
Haha Awesome. I live in Sriracha near Assumption!
Good job
Thanks!
Thanks much appreciated!!
No cons ask to see "paperwork" in Canadian prisons. Guards can let inmates know who did what.
Same in Australia,no papers just ask.
@@uptownonfridaythe great sweepers can give you a cup of brew thu a locked door.the boys are gold
Tellers don't really keep more than 10k in their drawer, and that's not counting the dye pack. 😅
Definitely not more than 10k. Never even got half of that tbh
Jail kinda’ sucks?
Jail totally sucks.
Thank you for the great interview, Pete
"Only that man is free, who is in control over himself"
Drugaddicts are not. I guess he wasen''t smoking the H. Raming a needle into my body for pleasure is beyond my imaginations
So the prison probably saved his life. Would he take an invitation for one more trip and do it one more time?
Much luck for his future
Not sure which is more contrived, the thumbnail or the story
at least he stole from a bank not from a private person
Everybody always runs to Thailand -it’s the first place the authorities look.
False. Not "everybody." There's all kinds of places they flee to.
breaking bad story here.
I would say more like The Shawshank Redemption minus the prison break
Dopesick also - he has many stories there
Pete what’s the story, are you back in Bangkok?
When did you join the Garda ? 😊👍
They’re taking anyone these days 😂😂
@@ThairishTimes Now your a shoe in for Thai Tourist Police. 😄
"Excuse me police officer, where is the next hospital?"
"First of all, what's the schtory, folks?"
🤣🤣🤣@@belze0n885
One hell of a shtory. Are you and your wife ever moving back?
Many thugs came to Thailand thinking they can act tough here but many were rehabilitated by the Thai gangsters .They got to know what gangsterism actually means here in Thailand. Some of the so call thugs has become a kitten they're so nice and quite cause they know if they miss behave here we the Thai gangsters have the exact remedy for it.อย่าบอกฉันว่าฉันไม่ได้เตือน. 👊
So he is in Thailand, but has no retirement visa, right? Because the Thai won't give a retirement visa to a 6 time bank robber, right? So he has to leave every 30 days To renew, right?
and what happened to the lung cancer
Been in remission since 2003 👍🏼
Hmmmm...
I'd believe some of his story if he does.
Never trust/believe a junkie.
I understand why you say that but people can change. They truly can
Looks like guy off seinfield ,fingers in boot, phoney
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Doctors are criminals knowing that all these painkillers are highly addictive, yet they continue prescribing these addictive drugs while turning their patients into addicts and later into criminals as well. Chris is a wonderful guy and doing so much good for the dogs in Thailand. Bless him.
When I lived in Vietnam we used to see the trucks full of dogs big cages maybe 60-80 at a time.coming from Thailand, Thai’s don’t eat dogs,Buda said no! many restaurants and barbecues in Vietnam serve dog,so well done all your great work.
Yeah seen that - Chinese love them.
... yes, in a lot of very poor countries people simply have no choice (and the dogs suffer of no hunger or car accident, too)
In China I’ve seen a father drop his child’s pants down let him shit on the foot path and just walk away! Seen in north baby suck on a female dog tit,for milk in front of I think was his mother, in the provinces up north.
I love dogs. They're delicious.
Bravo ! You are inspirational. Much love from Thailand.