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52 cent doughnut may cost man 30 years to life
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 10/7/07 | Todd C. Frankel

Posted on 10/07/2007 3:14:59 PM PDT by macmedic892

Shoplifters at Country Mart tend to favor cold medicines and packaged meats. They used to steal cigarettes, too, until tobacco was moved behind the counter. But the doughnuts were never a target for thieves.

Country Mart's doughnuts — fried fresh daily in the store — sell for just 52 cents each. That is why the "shoplifters will be prosecuted" signs are displayed in aisle 4 with the pricey pain and allergy pills, and not in aisle 5 beside the glass doughnut case with its tiger tails, jelly-filleds and eclairs.

Then one man's sweet tooth got the better of him. He stole a doughnut. A single doughnut.

Authorities called it strong-arm robbery. The "doughnut man," as the suspect is now known, faces five to 15 years in prison for his crime. And Farmington, a town of 14,000 people about 70 miles south of St. Louis, has been buzzing about it ever since.

"That someone would take just a single doughnut, not something very expensive or extravagant, that's unique," supermarket assistant manager Gary Komar said, smiling.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crime; donutwatch; doughnut; youcantmakethisup
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You do realize I'm going to have to, um, confiscate this as evidence?
1 posted on 10/07/2007 3:15:05 PM PDT by macmedic892
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To: macmedic892

If you can’t do the time, Don’t do the crime.


2 posted on 10/07/2007 3:17:09 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: macmedic892

There seems to be hole in his alibi


3 posted on 10/07/2007 3:19:08 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

30 years is a lot of time for that lil bit of dough.


4 posted on 10/07/2007 3:21:15 PM PDT by rineaux (Just say NO to taglines)
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To: rocksblues

5 posted on 10/07/2007 3:22:29 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: digger48
They're always on duty:

6 posted on 10/07/2007 3:22:56 PM PDT by macmedic892 (I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.)
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To: macmedic892
LOL!.....was it the last of a bakers' dozen. :)
7 posted on 10/07/2007 3:24:28 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
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To: macmedic892
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

8 posted on 10/07/2007 3:25:17 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: macmedic892
Personally, I’m all out of compassion for folks who have spent much of their life breaking the law....

Lock the little bastard up....

The only drawback is that taxpayers will have to feed and medicate the worthless waste of oxygen...

9 posted on 10/07/2007 3:27:33 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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My compassion reserve is running low as well, but as I was reading the article I thought that this prosecutor was out of his mind for pressing these charges.

Then I got to the part where they described the defendant's life of generally no good, and I just don't care. If they lock him up for the rest of his life, it will save us all a bunch of trouble and possibly save someone's life in the future. He contributes nothing positive to any society of which I want to be a part.

10 posted on 10/07/2007 3:32:46 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: macmedic892
Masters, who lives in the nearby town of Park Hills, has been arrested more than a dozen times: for being drunk, for shoplifting, for missed court dates, for marijuana possession. He spent most of the 1990s and a stretch from 2000 to 2004 in state prison for the felonies of torching a car to collect insurance and possessing methamphetamine ingredients.

And there, 21 paragraphs into the story, is the money quote of the article. He's a POS that needs to be locked up. The MSM likes to sugar coat these stories as someone getting prison for a donut, when its really a case of a chronic thief that lives a life of constant crime.

11 posted on 10/07/2007 3:36:22 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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What's the guys name, Jean Valjean?

-PJ

12 posted on 10/07/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: river rat
I personally would like to see this worthless heap of dung shot dead at dawn by a firing squad, or hanged on the court house square in public.

Three felonies is enough. Anybody who has been tried and convicted of three felonies on separate occasions has almost certainly committed hundreds more. We should kill any three-time felon with no more regret than putting down a rabid dog, because that is all he is.

Ah, you say, but his felonies were mostly non-violent... Well, I say even three non-violent felonies should earn him the noose. Such a man is a lifelong burden and plague on all of his fellow citizens.

Two violent felonies, or even a first offense for particularly horrendous violent felonies like premeditated murder or forcible rape, ought to merit the same treatment, every single time.

-ccm

13 posted on 10/07/2007 3:41:20 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: macmedic892

There is something wrong with our system. You can’t lockup all the crooks in Congress or a Clinton for one crime of their many crimes. We can save those donuts but our nuke secrets, secret documents, and major technology flies over seas. If we could just win wars with donuts.


14 posted on 10/07/2007 3:48:26 PM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: SampleMan
I'[d want to combine your "money quote" with this gem from the perp:

"I can't believe this crap," Masters said.

And THAT's why he needs to be locked up. The idea of a FELONY is that it is so terrible a crime that your civil status is changed forever. Felonies used to merit death or banishment or serious maiming. Loss of the franchise, now considered harsh, was kind of a mercy because at least you were alive to lose the franchise!

But this guy just doesn't get it. It's NOT a game of arbitrary sides. He is so out of it that he doesn't see that there's anything wrong with what he did.

15 posted on 10/07/2007 4:00:17 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
What's the guys name, Jean Valjean?

Whoever he is, I'm sure he's miserable.

Why didn't he do something useful, like manufacturing? ;-)

Cheers!

16 posted on 10/07/2007 4:01:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: rocksblues

All the years I worked, if someone came up and said they were hungry, I staked them for a meal. I’ll bet the people working in that store would too, if he had just asked.


17 posted on 10/07/2007 4:07:08 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Mad Dawg
But this guy just doesn't get it. It's NOT a game of arbitrary sides. He is so out of it that he doesn't see that there's anything wrong with what he did.

It is the flaw of writing laws with the law-abiding in mind. Most decent people would have their life changed by a night in jail. However, when a night in jail ceases to be a problem for a person, perps come to believe that there is no downside to misdemeanors. If you have no morals and no problem with a night in jail (very unlikely anyway), why steal $1000 and get prison, when you can just take what you want $1 at a time and be immune from a serious sentence?

Master's can't believe "this crap" because it has defeated his system.

18 posted on 10/07/2007 4:12:06 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: macmedic892
How unbelievably stupid.Thirty years for a donut and a push? Nobody hurt and 60 cents stolen.Charge him with simple assault and shoplifting.Given his record give him six months in the slammer and then probation.
19 posted on 10/07/2007 6:20:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: ccmay

“We should kill any three-time felon with no more regret than putting down a rabid dog, because that is all he is.”

Is that a quote from Jesus?


20 posted on 10/07/2007 6:21:07 PM PDT by DemEater
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