Posted on 10/18/2011 9:44:09 AM PDT by DGHoodini
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
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>>> Wait a minute. An 18 year old protester has a $5,500 computer?!!! What the heck is she protesting?! <<<
Mommy and Daddy had to pay for it. It should have been FREE!
There’s an irony in there somewhere.
Why would there be any surprise or even unhappiness over this informal "sharing" of material things?
Isn't their entire being, their world philosophy, the very reason they are there founded on their belief "What's yours is mine"?
Shouldn't they rejoice over this sharing of resources, wealth and material goods?
Wouldn't it be just greed that would cause one to think that they should own something that someone else, another 99%-er, does not have?
>> Wait, how can the reporter tell them apart?
>>>> The thieves are the ones with the laptops and cameras.
Stop that, Tick, I almost wrecked by keyboard and monitor. ROFL.
That was unexpected.
-PJ
—They could have gotten a used of budget laptop for 1,000 and used the remaining 4,500 to pay off debt....—
My wife’s NEW laptop was $425. It does everything but heavy gaming. The $5,500 figure just makes me ask if the girl was lying. That is stoopid expensive. Even my graphic illustrator friend didn’t pay that much for his Mac laptop.
Good golly, what kind of Mac is that? I just spec'd out a Macbook Pro at Apple's website with the highest-end options available, and only came up with $4400.
And on the thievery in general, I'm sure many of the "protestors" are the normal homeless folk who are just cashing in on free meals and probably cheap/free drugs and booze. Leaving expensive stuff or cash lying around is just begging "steal me!"
“My wife’s NEW laptop was $425. It does everything but heavy gaming. The $5,500 figure just makes me ask if the girl was lying. That is stoopid expensive. Even my graphic illustrator friend didn’t pay that much for his Mac laptop.”
If they are out there protesting, don’t you think that someone might have been able to convince them to pay $5,500 for a $4,000 mac?
Hey folks!:
“THIS IS WHAT SOCIALISM LOOKS LIKE!”
Hey you Non-Survivor Children of the Demned! This is *your* Future!
Hmm, $5500 laptop. Sounds like they really hate capitalism, huh???
It sounds like the dirty underwear gang has just had a reality check...
The folks preying on the fleabaggers are proving F. Scott Fitzgerald’s aphorism that “criminals are the law’s loyal opposition.” Go to it, boys!
Poor hygiene, defecation on squadcars, living in the gutter, nonsensical utterances, catatonic chanting, "twinkle up" and "twinkle down" hand signals followed by tinkling in the street, petty crimes, theft, and a complete disconnect from reality. The more extreme the withdrawal, the bigger the crimes get.
—If they are out there protesting, don’t you think that someone might have been able to convince them to pay $5,500 for a $4,000 mac?—
DOH! I forgot about that. It was probably stolen when she bought it from the guy in the white van. :-D
Just helping the 99% of us that don’t have a $5,000 laptop.
Psst… Wanna buy a laptop cheep, almost new
Predators are always attracted to sheep.
Reality bites.
Boy, that's a lot for a computer! Assuming for the moment that it's accurate, who would bring such a pricey item out to a mass protest--one with a theme of 'economic justice' to boot? It looks like the ex-Mac owner was on the receiving end of some economic justice to me.
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