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Katherine Ann Power

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The Resume

    (January 25, 1949- )
    Born in Denver, Colorado
    Participated in a Massachusetts bank robbery in which police officer William Schroeder was killed (September 23, 1970)
    Became a fugitive for 23 years
    Lived in Oregon as Alice Metzinger
    Served six years for manslaughter and robbery (1993-99)

Why she might be annoying:

    During a debate at a local high school, she urged students to kill police officers and other authority figures, shouting, ‘Many will die!’ (May 1970)
    She and her accomplices robbed a Massachusetts National Guard armory to supply weapons to the Black Panthers (September 20, 1970).
    She planned to use money from the bank robbery to finance the overthrow of the government to protest the Vietnam War.
    She claimed, ‘I was looking for a non-violent way to act effectively, but it didn’t exist.’
    Schroeder’s daughter commented, ‘For reasons I will never comprehend, the press and public seem far more interested in the difficulties Katherine Power has inflicted on herself than in the very real and horrible suffering she inflicted on my family.’

Why she might not be annoying:

    While in high school, she won a Betty Crocker cooking award.
    She was valedictorian of her class.
    She turned herself in.
    She said about Schroeder, ‘His death was shocking to me, and I have had to examine my conscience and accept any responsibility I have for the event that led to it.’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 31 Votes: 48.39% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 30 Votes: 96.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 13 Votes: 30.77% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 95 Votes: 49.47% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 575 Votes: 76.17% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 35 Votes: 51.43% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 29 Votes: 55.17% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 103 Votes: 62.14% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 65 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 84 Votes: 70.24% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 94 Votes: 73.40% Annoying