Ripple was charged with bank robbery.
But he’s not the only one who’s done something stupid when it comes to matters of the heart.
Man fakes death for wedding proposal
A man who faked his own death only to spring to life and propose to his girlfriend nearly got the thumbs down from the love of his life.
In 2012 Alexey Bykov from Omsk, Russia, hired a director, stuntmen and a make-up artist to help him stage a car crash and fake his own death.
“Then when I saw Alexey covered in blood lying in the road a paramedic told me he was dead and I just broke down in tears,” his girlfriend Irena Kolokov said.
After initially pushing him away once Bykov revealed he was in fact alive an angry Kolokov then said yes to his proposal..
“I wanted her to realise how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me,” Alexey said. “I think it worked — but I promise it’s the last time,” Bykov said.