What is society doing when a person actually "wants" to go to jail.
A HOMELESS man who robbed a service station so he could be arrested and avoid another night on the streets got his wish today when he was jailed for at least two and a half years.Ty William McDonald-Grant, 30, armed himself with a broken bottle and stole about $500 worth of cash, tobacco and soft drink from a service station at Berri, in South Australia's Riverland, in April.
An hour earlier, McDonald-Grant went to the Berri police station and asked if he could spend the night there but was turned away.
In the SA District Court today, Judge David Smith said McDonald-Grant had waited for police outside the service station after the robbery.
"The circumstances of this offending were bizarre, to say the least," Judge Smith said.

"In the course of the ensuing conversation with (a police officer), you asked him twice to lock you up. "When you were told that you were arrested and that you had a right to apply for bail, you said you did not want it.
"At the later video-recorded interview, you admitted the offence and indicated you did not want to commit robbery but that you did not want to sleep out on the streets that night."
Judge Smith said McDonald-Grant grew up in Queensland but was kicked out of home when he was 14 years old. Since then, McDonald-Grant had lived on the streets, in men's shelters and in prison.
Judge Smith said given the circumstances of the crime, McDonald-Smith's offending was not a typical robbery and should be treated at the lower end of the seriousness for such a crime.
McDonald-Grant was sentenced to four years imprisonment, with a non-parole period of two and a half years.