Throw away the key on these worthless and dangerous @ssholes.
I feel sorry for the store staff and manager.
Posted on 10/15/2009 1:58:48 AM PDT by DGHoodini
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.
"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
Shopper Candace Jordan said she told Brown she didn't need clothes, she needed help paying her rent.
"And she said, 'How much is it?'" Jordan told WBNS-TV. "And she promptly wrote out a check."
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A disgusting commentary on society today.
Throw away the key on these worthless and dangerous @ssholes.
I feel sorry for the store staff and manager.
"Everybody was like, 'I still want my free stuff,' and that started the riot," he said. "It looks like (Hurricane) Katrina went through the store."
Horrible commentary on this country.
This is the same thing obama is doing! He has the limo, too.
The rest of America did something better. We had a Tea Party which will go on until 2012 or later!
Power to the (hard working, patriotic) people!
He may have “won the Lottery” but the Lottery is broke, and obama has making trillion dollar promises there is no money for him to keep with.
“So when does the rest of America riot????”
Depends on your “culture of entitlements”.
A perfect allegory for the Obama administration and its useful idiots. Perfect.
All a person needs is an armored limousine, some beefy intense guys with throat mikes and a lot of black Escalades and you to can be a POTUS for a day.
Millions will grovel at your feet and shower you with accolades and gifts. You are even more magical if you get a deep dark tan!
POTUS for a day!
I want my free Heineken!!
But, gadzooks, if you reported the facts under these days of Obama, that would be racist!
Wouldn't it, Rush?
And a $5,000 purchase at the store on a stolen credit card (debit??)...before the money ran out.
“Act locally.” Is that an Alinsky rule?
A nutcase in Ohio went to the Coat Factory in a limo, claiming she’d won the Lottery and would PAY FOR EVERYONE’S PURCHASES! Not too surprisingly, all those greedy creeps ran & loaded up their shopping carts & called their cousins to come on down and do the same… Man, were they p!$$ed when they found out there was NO LOTTERY and NO FREEBIES FOR ANYBODY! They TRASHED the store and many of the slobs looking for a handout actually ran off with stolen goods…
Well, guess what!! The SAME THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THIS HEALTH-CARE SCAM! There is no MAGIC LOTTERY that is going to PAY FOR IT, folks! All those jerks looking for a FREE HANDOUT are going to be mighty disappointed when they learn the truth. What will they do then? TRASH THE COUNTRY, THE WAY THEY TRASHED THE COAT FACTORY IN COLUMBUS???
:-(
The Obamacare pogrom is a diversion to keep America fixated on town halls and voicing objections, they are more important issues that Obama doe NOT want exposed or fixated upon by the general population of America.
Like for instance the sheer audacity that legally (if we chose to enforce it)that the Obama administration cannot and should not even be in existence, factual pure and simple.
Has anyone idly wondered why a community organizer has such a passionate desire to keep attention focused on this issue?
I think Obama should have been a stage magician in Vegas because he has done a wonderful job of keeping everyone’s attention away from issues that are fundamentally more pertinent and dangerous to Obama himself.
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