You do realize I'm going to have to, um, confiscate this as evidence?
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 ...
If you can’t do the time, Don’t do the crime.
There seems to be hole in his alibi
30 years is a lot of time for that lil bit of dough.
Lock the little bastard up....
The only drawback is that taxpayers will have to feed and medicate the worthless waste of oxygen...
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.
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.
-PJ
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
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.
"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.
Whoever he is, I'm sure he's miserable.
Why didn't he do something useful, like manufacturing? ;-)
Cheers!
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.
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.
“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?
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