[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.

[Mad Dawg]

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.

[HungarianGypsy]

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.

That's where it was. You knew I had no patience to read that far. ;-)