After an ugly divorce, Colorado Springs resident Earl Ray Jones found himself saddled with a $3,000 a month settlement, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. <br /><br />To get back at his wife, the 52-year-old pillaged the couple's entire retirement nest egg, converted the $500,000 sum into gold, and just to make sure his wife never saw a dime, he claims he made several trips to a nearby landfill to toss it out.<br /><br />"Damn right I did," the former defense contractor told John-Paul Lyle, the attorney of his former wife of 25 years, at a deposition in July.<br /><br />Bank records supplied by Jones show the money was in fact converted to gold, according to Lyle. Whether or not he actually threw it away is another matter.<br /><br />Jones took no steps to document the disposal, and claimed there were no witnesses.<br /><br />His initial plan, however, was to cash out and hand over the money out to random strangers.<br /><br />"If that would have been an option, I would have been walking around giving people $100 bills," Jones said, according to a transcript of the deposition cited by the Gazette.<br /><br />There's biting off the nose to spite the face, and then, according to April Jones' lawyer, there's this.<br /><br />"We say that when people are divorcing, they enter a state of temporary insanity," Lyle told the paper. "But on a scale of 1 to 10, this is my 10."<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />TomoNews is your daily source for top animated news. We've combined animation and video footage with a snarky personality to bring you the biggest and best stories from around the world. Check out our official website: http://us.tomonews.net/ <br /><br />For news that's fun and never boring, visit our channel:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Subscribe to stay updated on all the top stories:<br />http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Stay connected with us here:<br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/TomoNewsUS
