Posted on 01/13/2015 9:32:41 AM PST by Vermont Lt
SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested a 23-year-old Springfield man who threatened to kill a Sumner Avenue convenience store clerk during a 2 a.m. dispute over $14 in merchandise and an out-of-state electronic benefits debit card, police said.
Wow.... your EBT card runs low and you threaten to murder the store clerk for not crediting your purchase anyway.
That’s what we call a low-info customer.
Where do they find the people that write these headlines we see sometimes?
A thug.
I mean what happened to his welfare cash? Dummy.
I used to live about two blocks from this place.
The neighborhood is all two family homes. Back in the day, they were owner on the first floor, tenant or kid on the second.
Now, they are almost all absentee owners. It used to be a nice lower middle class, post office or factory worker.
This is a downright shame.
Unfortunately, not just your former city. Everywhere in this country this sort of thing happens. That’s what happens when you give them everything they need and don’t make them work.
Now multiply by forty million when the spigot runs dry.
I’m guessing there’s a lot of Section 8 in there now.
Since when can you buy tp with EBT?
As many here have said would happen once the EBT cards stopped working.
SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested a 23-year-old Springfield man who threatened to kill a Sumner Avenue convenience store clerk during a 2 a.m. dispute over $14 in merchandise and an out-of-state electronic benefits debit card, police said.
Police spokesman Sgt. John Delaney said police arrested and charged Steven Tavarez of 18 Keith St. with armed robbery, destruction of property, and threatening to commit murder.
Delaney said Tavarez went into the Sunoco gas and convenience store, 730 Sumner Ave, at around 2:30 a.m. to purchase a bag of chips, a can of vegetable juice, a turkey and cheese sandwich, and some toilet paper. He gave the clerk a New York State EBT card to purchase the items. But when the clerk told him the card showed there were not funds in the account and it would not cover the $14.24 bill, Tavarez became enraged.
I cut and pasted it. I did not see I pulled the comments section in on it.
If the Admin could edit that, I would appreciate it.
If he got SNAP, you’re NOT allowed to buy toilet paper with your EBT card. Only food and drinks.
Sheesh.
when the music stops ...
Well... he’ll have plenty of time to think about what he did in jail.
As I said, you can’t buy that on SNAP.
Yup, as I said, we have low-info customers here.
He didn’t get TANF. And just how exactly does someone from Massachusetts have a New York State EBT card?
Just curious.
Since we are paying for their full support, we have a right to a full accounting of this. Can’t this spoiled democrat get a job sweeping floors?
On my screen the headline is right there in black and white.
Is it fading in and out for you?
What else do you see sometimes?
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