Posted on 02/10/2010 8:48:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge
A Yolo County man who put cheese down his trousers faces a life sentence when he goes before a judge next month.
Jurors convicted Robert Preston Ferguson of two counts of petty theft on Jan. 6.
One conviction was for swiping a woman's wallet from a convenience store counter. The other was for stealing $3.99 worth of shredded cheese from the Nugget Market in Woodland.
Officers testified that Ferguson put the cheese in his pants and was apprehended in the parking lot.
Because of a lengthy criminal history that dates back 35 years, including six first-degree burglary convictions, Yolo prosecutors charged the petty theft counts as felonies. They say 22 years in prison failed to teach Ferguson, who is in his 50s, to obey the law.
Now they're asking a judge to give Ferguson a life sentence under the state's "three-strikes" law when he comes back to court March 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Cheese in muh pants?
How'd cheese get there you ask Judge?
How'd I get cheese in muh pants?
Cheese in muh pants
My apologies to the General and the other originator of .. uhhh.. oH never mind..
On a hot day, he could have been in an even stickier predicament..
Cheese in your pants
Cheese in your pants
You lookin’ like Bill Clinton
With that cheese in your pants
Reminds me of that joke.
A thief is running away with stolen government cheese. And the people in line saying, “That’s not-cho cheese! That’s not-cho cheese!”
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Why couldn’t he just settle for free gummit cheese like the rest of his ilk?
Maybe somebody should tell the Sac. Bee that it just might have been the previous 35 YEARS worth of criminality that will FINALLY take this thug off the streets, NOT the $4.00 pack of cheese.
This is yet another attack on three strikes (I’m surprised it has survived it has lasted this long in California), but I think most reasonable people would see this a perfect use of the law to put away a career criminal.
Yeah, I’m thinkin’ a good wash and some talcum powder will clear that right up...
A cheesy kleptomaniac if I ever did see one.
I like cheese.
He was warned, and was well aware of the possible consequences of an additional offense. He gets what he deserves.
SnakeDoc
...lookin at hard time for that cheeze on yo pants.
The third strikers are mostly career criminals. They've usually only been caught three times.
As for this guy — I don't know. But in general, yes.
Your fromage is on the ground.
Sponge Bob Cheese Pants
Not very sharp! But part of the “feel gouda” generation
Let me see. I am a career criminal and I know that if I commit another felony the three strikes law kicks in. So I commit another felony and then whine about the consequences. I guess I must like the California Prison System a lot to be willing to commit another crime.
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