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Jailed Man Chooses "Can" Over Paying for $1.57 Soda
NBC10 ^ | 12/28/08 | Phoenix11

Posted on 12/28/2008 2:47:41 PM PST by Phoenix11

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Eau Claire police say a man accused of stealing a soda worth $1.57 chose to go to jail rather than pay up, even though he was carrying more than $70.

Police responding to the report of a theft recently say the 27-year-old Altoona man appeared drunk. An employee told officers the man had taken a cup from the counter, filled it and began drinking.

When employees told him he had to pay for the drink or leave, the man refused to do either.

A police officer told the man he could pay $1.57 or go to jail, and the man chose jail. The officer handcuffed and searched him, finding the money in his pocket.

The man was issued an ordinance citation for retail theft.


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1 posted on 12/28/2008 2:47:41 PM PST by Phoenix11
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To: Phoenix11

Drunks do stupid things.


2 posted on 12/28/2008 2:53:05 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

If you drink it in the store it’s free.

Everyone knows that.


3 posted on 12/28/2008 2:57:12 PM PST by angkor ("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
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To: Phoenix11

The dude was probably a liberal expecting somebody else to pay for him. After all, isn’t that why God created others?


4 posted on 12/28/2008 2:57:42 PM PST by urroner
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To: Phoenix11

I can see doing that if I actually had not stolen the soda.


5 posted on 12/28/2008 2:58:41 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Phoenix11

I guess sometimes you just have to do things on principle :)


6 posted on 12/28/2008 2:59:09 PM PST by chargers fan
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To: angkor

Why should any of us have to pay for sodas anymore? Another 20 or so days and “free sodas” for everyone in lolly pop land


7 posted on 12/28/2008 3:00:36 PM PST by CindyDawg (Lord, please bless America)
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To: Phoenix11

The story does not saw how the man got to the store. He may have skipped out of a DUI.


8 posted on 12/28/2008 3:08:02 PM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: CindyDawg

>>>>>Why should any of us have to pay for sodas anymore?<<<<<

Yeah. Good question. Damned Cheney.


10 posted on 12/28/2008 3:11:45 PM PST by angkor ("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
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To: Phoenix11

Hell if it was 157 Million he would be free! You got to think big if you are a criminal Rat.


11 posted on 12/28/2008 3:25:03 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: CindyDawg
Why should any of us have to pay for sodas anymore?

Yea!!! Why indeed! January 20th can not come soon enough!! Then everything will be free! (That damn Bush. It was all his fault.) Just wait. Nirvana is almost here...

12 posted on 12/28/2008 3:25:40 PM PST by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: angkor
If you drink it in the store it’s free. Everyone knows that.

I know. That's why you never see grapes in anyone's house. They never made it to the scanner.

13 posted on 12/28/2008 3:44:55 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: CindyDawg

Yeah, when does the “free bubble up” start? Store probably charges for “rainbow stew”, too. Damn these mercenary capitalist pigs!


14 posted on 12/28/2008 3:56:07 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Mark was here

He still could have paid for the pop and just walked around outside until the officer was gone. But I like your thinking.


15 posted on 12/28/2008 3:59:29 PM PST by library user
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To: mc5cents
Just wait. Nirvana is almost here...

Ah, nevermind. :O)

16 posted on 12/28/2008 4:01:00 PM PST by library user
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To: blam

Stupid hell, this was Altoona, it gets cold, he slept in a warm cell. Free room and board for a stolen coke, not too shabby if you are homeless or the wife kicks you out.


17 posted on 12/28/2008 4:03:13 PM PST by eastforker
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Ok...what is rainbow stew? I know M Haggard sang about it but I can’t find anything else.


18 posted on 12/28/2008 4:47:28 PM PST by CindyDawg (Lord, please bless America)
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To: CindyDawg

Which is to say we each know just as much about it as the other. Of course, Merle probably couldn’t even explain it either even in his most coherent moments.


19 posted on 12/28/2008 4:55:52 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: angkor
If you drink it in the store it’s free.

Everyone knows that.

Lots of people think that. I find empty (but used) cups by the soda fountain every day.

20 posted on 12/28/2008 5:10:33 PM PST by tvdog12345
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