Because the mall management doesn't want people to stop coming?
My big mistake was that I should have taken it to the police
Well that makes sense. Your son steals something and rather than return it to the owner you'd give it to the police so that the owner doesn't get it back. Tell me would you also have turned your son over to the police for prosecution for felony theft by taking? I'm truly glad I don't know you or your larcenous offspring.
It never occurred to me that he may have stolen it. They were jr high kids. I will ask him about that. The story at the time was the kid gave it to him. I returned it to the owners. Would I have turned my son into the police? Probably not because I didn't want him to have it on his record and ruin his life, and it didn't occur to me at the time anyway. Doesn't matter now because he can't own one anyway due to domestic disputes w/ex wife when she was the one to pull knives on him, deliberately ran into a telephone pole, her dad is a detective and got them out of that, etc. She finally had to spend some time in jail for assault of somebody else. He is 34 now and makes a six figure income, has been a good son, came over late last night to snowblow my sidewalks.
Another mistake by picking the wrong woman, broke his heart. He is stuck with mega child support for his son by her, she is going to ask for a modification because his income keeps increasing and lives with her boyfriend off the money she gets from him although I think he does work. The other father pays $30 a week when he can. How would you like to live with that? He pays faithfully, and we didn't get any child support after the first couple years from his own dad.
No, you wouldn't want to know us. For sure. You can thank God in your prayers that you don't know trash like us.