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Costs Too High to Send 600-Pound Fla. Man to Jail
foxnews.com ^
| April 3, 2010
Posted on 04/03/2010 8:47:04 PM PDT by rdl6989
A 600-pound man accepts plea deal for cheating numerous restaurants and stores out of junk food, The Orlando Sentinel reports.
A 600-pound Florida man pleaded no contest to scamming numerous restaurants and stores out of food -- and will avoid jail because it's too expensive for the state to pay his medical bills, The Orlando Sentinel reports.
George Jolicoeur, 38, was charged with felony petty theft for allegedly demanding refunds in restaurants and stores for spoiled or defective food -- after he had eaten all or most of it. His attorney says he's been in a nursing facility for months and needs a respirator to breathe.
Jolicoeur was arrested in 2007 at a 7-Eleven for telling a clerk he'd bought $50 of beef jerky, only to discover it was moldy. "The beef jerky got me," the arrest report states.
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TOPICS: Extended News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: beefjerkybandit; fat; morbidobesity
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Beef jerky bandit lol.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:47:05 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:47:34 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: rdl6989
Only a freak weighs 600 pounds.
Not a man.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:49:20 PM PDT
by
quantim
To: rdl6989
His attorney says he's been in a nursing facility for months Where he has been nursing his facilities for months....
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:49:30 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:01:22 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: rdl6989
I wonder who is paying for his medical care now? My bet is the State so the argument about being too expensive to incarcerate is specious.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:02:20 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
To: rdl6989
$50 of beef jerkyA light snack no doubt.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:02:20 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/1980)
To: eclecticEel
LOck him in a cell and give him 1000 cal a day in diet food. In a about six months he won’t be a problem anymore.
I think in prison the state pays for health care. If he is free then Medicaide pays..reducing state portion. This is one reason that CA wants to discharge all their old prisioners.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:06:25 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: Oldexpat
The ACLU lawyers would whine that his right to be fat is being violated.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:09:40 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: Oldexpat
LOck him in a cell and give him 1000 cal a day in diet food. In a about six months he won’t be a problem anymore. GMTA.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:13:34 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: GSP.FAN
He is a distinguished looking young man.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:30:10 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: rdl6989
The parents planned a great future for him only to be thwarted by jerky...
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:38:24 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: NonValueAdded
I wonder who is paying for his medical care now? My bet is the State so the argument about being too expensive to incarcerate is specious.Besides that isn't government health care supposed to be cheaper? Oh, right, that's a liberal lie.
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posted on
04/03/2010 10:57:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
04/03/2010 11:21:53 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: rdl6989
Would it have been cruel and unusual punishment not to give this guy 6+ milkshakes per day?
Also, could they have gotten him in the jail cell door?
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posted on
04/03/2010 11:28:00 PM PDT
by
boycott
(CAL)
To: rdl6989
How could he fit all that food in such a little mouth?
Nevermind.
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posted on
04/03/2010 11:33:18 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
To: rdl6989
Hey, I’m working on adding a few hundred pounds so they can’t put me in jail for failing to buy national health insurance.
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posted on
04/04/2010 12:07:18 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
To: rdl6989
His attorney says he's been in a nursing facility ... I'm sure the state is picking up the tab but it's a sad state of affairs when it's cheaper to provide medical care at a nursing facility then in prison.
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posted on
04/04/2010 3:02:46 AM PDT
by
HarleyD
To: OrangeHoof
It’ll take you a while to get in his class.
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posted on
04/04/2010 3:16:29 AM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: HiTech RedNeck
Too big to jail. LOL.
Guess he needed a "bail" out.
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posted on
04/04/2010 6:03:33 AM PDT
by
PalmettoMason
(The shattered skulls of tyrants should be used for traction under the boots of justice. T. Nugent)
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