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Police officer buys eggs for woman caught shoplifting to feed her family in Tarrant
al.com ^ | December 8, 2014 | Jon Reed

Posted on 12/08/2014 8:41:14 PM PST by boycott

TARRANT, Alabama -- A woman caught shoplifting eggs in Tarrant Saturday didn't leave with handcuffs and a court date. Thanks to a Tarrant police officer, she left with food for her family.

Officer William Stacy was called to the Dollar General on Pinson Valley Parkway when employees caught the woman trying to steal a dozen eggs, Tarrant Police Chief Dennis Reno said.

The woman had her young children in the car. She told Officer Stacy that she was only stealing because she was trying to feed her children.

Stacy talked with Dollar General, and they said they wouldn't prosecute. So Stacy made an offer.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: Catsrus
Zhang Fei wrote some people receive $200 per household member per month. Your $60-$75 a week per person amounts to much more than that.
41 posted on 12/08/2014 9:58:26 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: eastforker

Katrina was in 2005.


42 posted on 12/08/2014 9:59:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I even hosted a fundraiser for you, against the mods wishes, JR approved it and let it go on, do you not remember?


43 posted on 12/08/2014 10:03:16 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker

And you’re saying I never thanked you, is that it?


44 posted on 12/08/2014 10:05:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, I am saying you are a leach! Every 3 or 4 months you have a pray for me thread, how much do you make off of that?


45 posted on 12/08/2014 10:07:21 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; eastforker; All
don't mine him, his biggest catches
are catfish..only catfish..& you.

46 posted on 12/08/2014 10:09:58 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: eastforker
She stole eggs, the only thing you can do with them is eat them.

Every dollar of her own that she doesn't have to spend on necessities is a dollar more for her to spend on drugs and alcohol for herself and the fathers of her children.

47 posted on 12/08/2014 10:10:59 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: eastforker

Please show me my “pray for me threads” bud. Aren’t you thinking of many years ago when we were in real trouble? You’ve never been down & out? I’m glad for you.


48 posted on 12/08/2014 10:11:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: eastforker
She stole eggs, the only thing you can do with them is eat them.

They could also be used at a protest to lob at cars:)

49 posted on 12/08/2014 10:12:06 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: lee martell

“Many parents will do almost anything to make sure their children continue to thrive.”

I know a gal from Vietnam. Her dad was taken by the government and sent away for many years. (He left for work one day, and they didn’t hear anything about him for a year - didn’t know if he was dead, in a camp, etc.)

Her brothers worked the fields, and she and her mom and the baby sister would beg. She said she was always jealous of her brothers that would get two balls of rice a day to her one (they had to keep up their energy to work).

The mother would get whatever was left over. Which unfortunately wasn’t enough to keep breastfeeding the baby - which died. So much for the utopia that Communism provides and the liberals were wishing on Vietnam.


50 posted on 12/08/2014 10:13:02 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I am glad you know that as a fact!


51 posted on 12/08/2014 10:13:27 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: boycott
I guess I'll trust the man who met her face to face on this one.

Stacy talked with Dollar General, and they said they wouldn't prosecute. So Stacy made an offer.

"He said, 'If I give you these eggs, will you promise that you won't shoplift anymore?'" Reno said. "He knew that she was telling the truth and that's the reason he went in and bought the eggs."

Stacy bought the eggs and gave them to her, Reno said. The woman then asked if she could give him a hug.


52 posted on 12/08/2014 10:17:39 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You had many, you disgust me, 2nd div infantry my ass. Kiss it on your way out.


53 posted on 12/08/2014 10:20:20 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker

Whatever.


54 posted on 12/08/2014 10:21:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I tried to help you, thought you were genuine, you are nothing but a grafter, live well.


55 posted on 12/08/2014 10:25:23 PM PST by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker
Not almost anything, most would die for their children to survive.

Sorry to interject reality into this PC-Fest, but barely more than half is not "Most..."

For the other half?
Kill? Yes.
Die? No.

56 posted on 12/08/2014 10:25:36 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: eastforker

You can throw them at cop cars.


57 posted on 12/08/2014 10:30:21 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TigersEye

Sometimes you’ve just got to give people the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully she won’t shoplift again but he did what he thought was the right thing to do.


58 posted on 12/08/2014 10:31:09 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

Well, that would’ve been on the other extreme. This is a matter of rewarding bad behavior, not good to go there.


59 posted on 12/08/2014 10:31:25 PM PST by Baladas
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To: boycott

Well, that would’ve been on the other extreme. This is a matter of rewarding bad behavior, not good to go there.


60 posted on 12/08/2014 10:31:25 PM PST by Baladas
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