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Unemployed Ohio woman charged for taking $2.87 from fountain to buy food
New York Daily News ^
| Thursday, October 17, 2013
| Joe Kemp
Posted on 10/17/2013 9:54:33 AM PDT by Deadeye Division
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To: Deadeye Division
How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?
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posted on
10/17/2013 9:57:14 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept those that I can't.)
To: Deadeye Division
On the positive side, people put that money in the fountain willingly. It was not taken from them by a tyrannic government.
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posted on
10/17/2013 9:59:06 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(The Partisans)
To: Deadeye Division
It’s an interesting commentary on society today that the papaer just assumes we know that she has a case manager.
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posted on
10/17/2013 9:59:53 AM PDT
by
edwinland
She should take the money donated for her legal fund, go to a garden center and buy her own little fountain. I'd be glad to toss some coins in hers instead of the one the city runs [apparently] for profit.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:00:51 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept those that I can't.)
To: Baynative
“How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?”
All your money belong to the government.
To: Baynative
How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing? "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
-- Benito Mussolini
The government thinks all the money belongs to them, and therefore she stole it.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:02:27 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: TexasGator
Never understood why people throw money into fountains....Ok, I get throwing them into the Trevi Fountain in Rome, but other than that...
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:03:09 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Baynative
Was wondering the same thing. What’s the difference between loose change in a fountain, on the ground, a parking lot, etc?
To: Deadeye Division
the "four cats" caught my eye....
well, you know, those coins people throw in are basically coins they are throwing away.....we all figure some kids will fish them out eventually,don't we?...
cops need to go after the criminal, not the stupid or the petty...
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:03:58 AM PDT
by
cherry
(.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
To: Deadeye Division
In the old days the cop would have given her a couple of bucks instead of a summons.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:06:05 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the Libs say we are.)
To: Baynative
Which one will the Government Bless?
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:06:58 AM PDT
by
golux
To: Deadeye Division
Wonder wht the COP didn’t just make her toss the coins back. ///////he could have given her a 5er out of his pocket so she could eat.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:07:30 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: TangoLimaSierra
Luckily she didn’t have a dog.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:08:11 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Deadeye Division
Perhaps that effort would have been better spent trying to get a job.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:09:21 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: Deadeye Division
Don’t steal from the fountain faeries. They’ll sic the cops on you.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:09:27 AM PDT
by
marron
To: Deadeye Division
Seriously, the cop should be fired. His salary is money wasted.
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:10:23 AM PDT
by
marron
To: TexasGator
To: Baynative
"How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?"
If you look, many fountains now have signs that tell you the charity the money goes to, or that it becomes the property of the property owner to distribute charitably.
The fountain is technically private property, so whatever's in it belongs to the owner to distribute as he sees fit.
To: Deadeye Division
Hope and Change...............just don’t get caught with the change............
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posted on
10/17/2013 10:12:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(TANSTAAFL always wins. Always...........................)
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