Posted on 02/16/2009 6:42:59 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
A University of South Florida dean is being investigated after surveillance video captured him taking a red bike from the loading dock of the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute.
Dr. Abdul Rao, senior associate vice president for research at USF College of Medicine, said he took the bike on Monday to help a "nearly homeless'' friend and intended no harm.
Video of the theft has been posted on YouTube.
Rao, who joined USF in 2006 ,draws a $269,280 salary plus four administrative stipends of $115,000.
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My two favorite examples of this:
1) Rich hollywoodians who throw parties to raise funds. Raise funds!?!?! They're Rich! So these people throw a huge party to raise 5 or 10 million dollars, they themselves donate a few hundred thousand, and then get others to donate it. Then they go on TV and make themselves feel good; pat themselves on the back, and etc.
Why not just donate the 5 or 10 mil themselves and be done with it?
2) Tax increasing politicians who advocate tax increases but then do everything they can(including tax evasion) to shield their own monies from the very tax increases they have imposed. Offshore accounts, built in tax loopholes, even simply just not paying the taxes. Nothing is too unreasonable.
Hmmm. University of South Florida. Dr. Abdul Rao...
Maybe his “homeless” friend needed it for making a bicycle bomb.
No wonder tuition is so high! Here’s a poor fella trying to get by on a measly $400,000 a year (or so) and having to steal bikes on the side just to make ends meet. Parents — get ready for a hike!
this one is just too easy.
So this so called doctor, takes a bike from the Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute? Let me guess - he just forgot who he was and where he was and thought the bike was his?
Face it, liberals are just better people than we. We ALWAYS mean harm, they never do, except harm to those with whom they disagree or who have something they want but don't want to pay for.
This guy makes better than $20K per month, but he decides to steal to help the homeless? Bastard.
Hey, it’s okay. The person whose bike was stolen didn’t need it as much as his homeless friend.
Where’s your compassion, people? /s off
I’d like to point out that the libs should love the student who bikes to school rather than “pollute” with a car.
Libs eating their own.
His crime was motivated by “compassion”.
So, by their standards, no crime was committed.
And how can one be “almost homeless”? You either are or aren’t. That would be like being “a little bit pregnant”.
Fixed it.
It gives them legitimacy...so much...that mushy-headed thinkers...benefactors of their criminality can put them on a pedestal or vote for them.
Are there no Americans qualified for this guys job? The fact that many top medical and research jobs in the US are done by foreigner indicates the sorry state of the American Education system.
I thought it was the University of California San Francisco and they had found Lance Armstrong’s $10,000 road bike. This Marxist makes $400,000 a year and he steals a bike to give to a bum ?
I better not say anything.
I love this. I gave someone permission to use something that didn't belong to me. Not only did I give him permission, but I drove him to where the bicycle was, and assisted him in "borrowing" it. Now granted, it wasn't mine, but that's ok.
This is my favorite comment though:
You are all missing the plight of the other victim. What about the owner of the blue bike?? They were obviously going to take that one first and then they put it back. The blue bike's owner has to live with the public humiliation of having a bike that isn't worth stealing!
“Rao said in an interview today that he allowed a man who does yardwork for him to take the bike so that he could go to the DMV to replace a lost Florida ID.”
This guy is so compassionate that he never thought of loaning/giving the guy cabfare/busfare? How about giving him a ride to the DMV? Instead he helps him steal a bike from a grad student. Very generous with other peoples property but not his own.
Ah yes. Liberals are so compassionate and generous, always ready to give someone the shirt off your back. How can we not put them on a pedestal?
Don’t forget: making public employee pensions exempt from taxes!
I’ve always thought there was no great hypocrisy than that, given that THEY are the very ones who drumbeat for tax increases.
Under socialism, it will be the state’s bike and everyone can take it. The dean was just a little ahead of his time.
This is vague. Does it mean stipends collectively worth $115,000, or four stipends worth $115,000 which would be $460,000 in stipends? I suspect it is the latter and that's why it was made so vague.
Uhhh....ever watch an "awards" show (Grammy, Oscar, etc.)?
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