Posted on 11/22/2022 12:04:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Gainesville man is in jail after being accused of stealing from a Walmart store that he claimed he owned.
According to Gainesville Police Department records obtained by WCJB, Steven Francis, 51, was caught stealing clothes from the Walmart located behind Butler Plaza in Gainesville.
Upon arrival, officers said Francis told them he was the owner of the store after a “hostile takeover.” Francis said he had no remorse for taking the clothes because he already owned the store.
According to WCJB, the items taken are estimated to be worth over $200.
Francis is currently behind held at the Alachua County Jail.
That’s cuz Bloomington folks are a little hoity toity, at least the ones I know. Plus they are bigger basketball fans there, not football. I’m sure they did think that the Swamp and other places are like cockfights. There is a certain similarity, because of the drinking aspect, to be sure.
I graduated HS in 78, and Bundy terrified me. There was no way in H-E-double-toothpicks that I was going to FSU, but as Mr. Petty sang to us,
“Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin’
That there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin’
She had one little promise she was gonna keep…”
This American girl had to move on from the place she grew up. Atlanta seemed like a nice place to try. I wouldn’t ever go back, but it worked for me then.
That’s what the Senator’s daughter is listening to in Silence of the Lambs just before Buffalo Bill kidnaps her...
Petty was a G-ville man.
I would never live in Hotlanta...
How old was “too old”?
33 y/o.
That works be the “old” Walmart I was referring to. All that area behind there is now retail.
I know, and I can’t watch that movie. It absolutely terrifies me. We rented it after it finished in the theaters, and I had to leave the room. Still creeps me out.
I never met Tom, but he is a Gainesville boy through and through. I think he had some big dreams of his own.
I managed in Hotlanta without getting into too much trouble. Just a tiny bit. Fell in love with an engineer boy, and we had fun on fall Saturdays at Grant Stadium. Like I said, just a little bit of trouble. He was from Long Island, but I’ve turned him into a Southerner after many years.
Although not hoity-toity, the law professor and his wife were well-mannered, proper kind of people. A late afternoon cocktail in the bar at the local country club before dinner on Saturday was their idea of a drink.
Ah, I see.
So you married a Ramblin’ Wreck man?...
That’s quite the engineering school.
I guess the folks I know are like that too, and they’d probably bristle at me calling them hoity-toity. But I’m just a Southern gal who’s seen a much different life than a lot of folks. Atlanta was my first venture into a cultural world. It was a good education for me, and I appreciate what I got to see and do, but honestly, I can live just fine without all the accoutrements of a well heeled society. Except I do enjoy fine dining on occasion.
Every few years, I get back in Gainesville for one reason or another and try to work in an hour or two driving around looking at the changes. Even more than most places in Florida, Gainesville is transforming at an astonishing pace to accommodate more people and more intense development.
Yep. Funny, my HS physics teacher told me that I’d probably fall for one of those boys. I didn’t remember that conversation until many years later when an old HS friend reminded. That man knew me better than I realized.
Intelligent, attention to detail, and if he’s like me...charming.
:)
MIT, Purdue, GT, Stanford, et al. are all top notch.
You are so right. My family homestead is there. My grandparents moved there in the early 20’s. My mom always talked about how much it changed from when she was a little girl, to when we moved (back) there in 1970. It has continued changing and growing more than any other place I’ve lived (8 cities/towns in 5 different states since leaving for college).
My siblings who are still there don’t understand it because it happens in real time for them. Oh, and the reason for the hour or two driving around is because that’s how long it takes to get through daily traffic there. So many lights. So many lanes. Every year there are so many changes. Still a cool place though, and will always feel like home anyway.
I now live back in the city in Florida that I grew up in. The old patch is more prosperous, more densly populated, and with almost all ordinary people enjoying a better life than they would have had fifty years ago. And I would feel deprived without a smartphone, PC, internet access, cable TV, and a large flat screen TV — things that were near science fiction when I was a boy.
You forgot his best trait. Steady under pressure. :)
Oh, you should see the rivalry between the Purdue and GT folks around here. They vie for the same jobs, and hubby is always proud when a Tech grad wins the position.
I assume it’s harder for the Tech grad via location bias.
Both are outstanding.
Not only the lights, but the local libs plan for mass transit and bicycles. I couldn’t believe they took main street from 4 lanes to two. And going north on 34th past university is a nightmare.
I can tell you’re a Florida boy because you said city versus town. So which city is that? I may have missed you mentioning it.
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