So it wasn’t just a simple robbery of something that the letter writer doesn’t value very highly. This involved weapons and hostages.

Kidnapping and false arrest carry a pretty hefty price, and appropriately so. The Schoenfeld brothers and their bud Frederick Woods got life sentences for the 1976 Chowchilla, Calif., kidnapping. All they did was steal a bus … with a bunch of kids on board. The kids and the bus driver escaped. (Richard and James Schoenfeld were paroled in 2012 and 2015, respectively and Woods remains in prison.)