{"id":4122,"date":"2026-02-10T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:29:04","slug":"benjamin-was-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=4122","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin was in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin was serving 30 years for bank robbery. After 12 years, he learned his uncle had died and left him $50,000<\/strong>. The warden said the money would be held in trust until his release and asked if he wanted anything first.<\/p>\n

Benjamin asked for a computer. Soon he received a brand-new one.<\/p>\n

Weeks later, the warden visited and found it smashed to pieces. Shocked, he asked what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t work,\u201d Benjamin said. \u201cI only wanted it to do one simple thing. I hit the escape<\/strong> key again and again\u2026 and I\u2019m still here! I\u2019m suing the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During another robbery, a burglar shouted, \u201cNobody move! Money belongs to the government, life belongs to you.\u201d Everyone lay down quietly.<\/p>\n

Lesson:<\/strong> change how people think, and you change how they react.<\/p>\n

Back at their hideout, the younger burglar suggested counting the cash. The older one said, \u201cWhy? The news will tell us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lesson:<\/strong> experience can beat degrees.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the bank manager told a supervisor, \u201cAdd the 10 million<\/strong> we stole to what the robbers took.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lesson:<\/strong> turn trouble into advantage.<\/p>\n

The news reported 50 million<\/strong> gone. The burglars counted only 20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Furious, they said, \u201cWe risked our lives, and the manager made more in seconds. Education pays!\u201d<\/p>\n

Final lesson:<\/strong> knowledge is as valuable as gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin was serving 30 years for bank robbery. After 12 years, he learned his uncle had died and left him $50,000. The warden said the money would be held in trust until his release and asked if he wanted anything first. Benjamin asked for a computer. Soon he received a brand-new one. Weeks later, the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4124,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions\/4124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}