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Just released from lockup, man tries carjacking (In Parking Lot!)
sun-sentinel.com ^ | 03/25/2008 | By Dianna Cahn

Posted on 03/26/2008 6:24:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office called him stupid Tuesday. But Frank Singleton could almost write the book on how to turn a misdemeanor into a felony without ever leaving the jail's parking lot. "This is one of the stupid criminals," Sheriff's Office spokesman Paul Miller said. Singleton, 21, of West Palm Beach, got released from the county lockup Tuesday after being arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge. He immediately ran out into the visitor's parking lot and, in an apparent effort to get away as quickly as possible, tried to carjack a 2006 Nissan 350Z, Miller said. The woman who was driving it, Justine Lapierre, was just getting out of her car when Singleton ran at her saying, "I want your car," Miller said. He pushed Lapierre out of the way, grabbed the keys and jumped into the Nissan. But it was a manual transmission and Singleton couldn't operate it, Miller said. Hearing the commotion, Sheriff's Office Pastor Leo Krug walked up and, holding his handgun by his side, ordered the barely free Singleton to the ground so a deputy could handcuff him. Singleton was booked on a carjacking charge. "I don't think he wanted to go back to jail," Miller said. "I think he really wanted to get away and was looking for a car." When the detective was making the arrest, he asked Singleton why he did this. "I didn't feel like walking," Singleton said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: jdm

lol


21 posted on 03/26/2008 6:48:47 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: wita
I'm making the assumption he was born into some permutation of a civilized family (albeit a 'single parent' type), given at least some basic direction in the concept of "right vs. wrong," and that he chose to deviate from those vestiges of normative society.

Of course you may be right...those assumptions of mine just may be taking things a bridge too far.

22 posted on 03/26/2008 6:50:33 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Red Badger

You can’t cure stupid.


23 posted on 03/26/2008 6:51:37 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Red Badger

No one is that dumb. He wanted to go back to jail. Maybe someone is looking for him out on the street.


24 posted on 03/26/2008 6:52:38 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: Larry Lucido
But it was a manual transmission and Singleton couldn't operate it...

Pure genius there, pure genius.........

25 posted on 03/26/2008 6:53:37 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They used to hang horse thieves. A car is the modern-day horse.


26 posted on 03/26/2008 6:53:50 AM PDT by LetsRok
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To: Red Badger
If this dope would jack a car simply because he didn't feel like walking, then he would just as easily rob a convenience store because he doesn't feel like paying, or rape a woman because he doesn't have a girlfriend.

He needs to be locked up until he's 65.
27 posted on 03/26/2008 6:56:41 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: Hacklehead

No one is that dumb?....You’ve not met any of my daughter’s boyfriends.....


28 posted on 03/26/2008 6:57:19 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

Stupid people world-wide are filling suit against the Sheriff for this mean spirited insult!

Amos & Andy to hold a news conference at 11.


29 posted on 03/26/2008 6:57:52 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Red Badger
I was doin' ok until I met Manuel Transmission.


30 posted on 03/26/2008 6:58:16 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: DeFault User

**snort**


31 posted on 03/26/2008 7:11:41 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: from occupied ga
And here you hav in a nutshell what's affects a large part of the criminal class in the USA today - their massively developed sense of entitlement. He didn't feel like walking, so he was ENTITLED to someone else's car.

My younger brother had this attitude. If you had something and he wanted it he saw no reason not to take it. His feelings, particularly about stores and shops were that you "have more than one, so what's the problem?". He was a very tough kid and would put a beating on someone for giving him the wrong look.

After all the government has been giving welfare parasites other people's money for so many years they have come to think it really does belong to them.

For him and his cronies, it wasn't the gub'mint cheese, I can't tell you exactly what it was but I can tell you some of what fixed it. Work and Responsibility. I hired him as my assistant manager (a job I held in college) and from there the changes began. He eventually became a responsible married adult that owned his business and spends a considerable amount of time and money helping others.

I guess it is related to the "parasite syndrome", if you don't work for it and take on no responsibilities, you don't respect others that do...

32 posted on 03/26/2008 7:19:45 AM PDT by NativeSon (off the Rez without a pass...)
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To: NativeSon
He was a very tough kid and would put a beating on someone for giving him the wrong look

He's lucky to have survived.

33 posted on 03/26/2008 7:23:11 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Red Badger

This individual is denser than a great big box of little-bitty rocks/depleted uranium.


34 posted on 03/26/2008 7:28:26 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Red Badger
"I think he really wanted to get away and was looking for a car."


35 posted on 03/26/2008 7:53:40 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: TNCMAXQ

When I lived in Tucson the Dairy Queen next to my restaurant was robbed. The thief wrote the note demanding money on a speeding ticket, and left the ticket.


36 posted on 03/26/2008 8:12:08 AM PDT by John D
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To: from occupied ga

This cat is not alone.

Want a really scary morning read?

http://www.frfrogspad.com/disastr.htm

Should give you a **lot to think about** if you live in a ‘big’ city.....


37 posted on 03/26/2008 8:24:28 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: ASOC
Thanks for the link - interesting reading. I have a enough supplies for my family for about 10 days, but I have no supplies for freeloaders or agressive "sharers" other than the front part of which I will reluctantly send their way if pressed.
38 posted on 03/26/2008 9:05:56 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga
Friends of a friend flag

The part of holding a knife to the child's throat to extort goods was another flag.

The many references to the ‘you owe me’ attitude was the clincher.

39 posted on 03/26/2008 9:26:36 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: ASOC
The part of holding a knife to the child's throat to extort goods was another flag.

From 25 ft I can pick which eye to put the .357 through. This is one of my few skills - one that other people can acquire with just a little practice.

40 posted on 03/26/2008 9:43:49 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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