[macmedic892]

You do realize I'm going to have to, um, confiscate this as evidence?

[rocksblues]

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

[digger48]

There seems to be hole in his alibi

[skinkinthegrass]

LOL!.....was it the last of a bakers' dozen. :)

[JustaDumbBlonde]

[river rat]

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...

[SampleMan]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

What's the guys name, Jean Valjean?

-PJ

[bmwcyle]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[Jeff Gordon]

The guy’s record tells me that we will all be better off with him locked away from society for the rest of his life.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

[wbill]

I sincerely hope that FReepers are smart enough to recognize that he's not being put away for a doughnut.

He's going up for the assault + multiple convictions. Or am I stating the obvious?

[anymouse]

A photo of the perp in question.

The arresting officer.

The victim.

[goldstategop]

The sentence IS excessive for stealing a c52 donut. Give him a couple of hours in jail. But five to fifteen years? C'mon! I'm a believer in punishment one for the crime but the sentence also has to be proportional to the nature of the offense.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[endthematrix]

"strong-arm robbery"

...but a weak-stomach necessity!

[Ronin]

We need to bring back the pillory or the whipping post for things like this. Cheaper, faster, more efficient, and they don’t forget.

This guy is a total loser know, but what if the first time he got busted for shoplifting or some other minor crime, he was taken out behind the courthouse and given five lashes?

I am not saying it is appropriate in all cases, or for all crimes, but it seems to me that locking this POS up for 30 years just means that the taxpayers are going to have to feed and clothe him for that amount of time.

He’s probably going to be just as comfortable there as he would be anywhere else, and the food comes hot and on time.

[HungarianGypsy]

They couldn’t just embarrass him, fine him, and tell him he was not allowed in any of their stores again? This happened to my dad over a pack of cigarettes once. We had been talking and without thinking about it put his cigarettes in his pocket. He had forgotten that he hadn’t paid for them. When it was pointed out to him by a security guard he was about to pay when all of the above happened. He left those cigarettes behind. He had been a customer in that store for years and had he not been so flustered by other things going on in his life at the time he probably would have just gone right up to the manager and told him of his mistake.