Posted on 03/26/2020 4:25:18 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
A grocery store in Pennsylvania says it was forced to trash an estimated $35,000 in produce and other items Wednesday after a customer coughed all over them amid growing concerns over the coronaviruspandemic.
The woman came into Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township around 2:20 p.m. and "proceeded to purposely cough" on the store's fresh produce as well as a small section of its bakery, meat case, and grocery shelves, according to the store's co-owner, Joe Fasula
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If a person went in there and destroyed $35,000 worth of property by swinging a hammer, that would be criminal. If intent can be proven, this stunt is just as criminal.
A little time in the Graybar Hotel might convince these morons that this is not a good idea.
In this case flogging would be a useful educational tool.
They caught the person, right?
Wonder why she hasn’t been named and no photo. Black? Illegal? Democrat?
According to the article:
Hanover police later announced in a news release that the suspect was identified and was undergoing a mental health evaluation at a local hospital. Criminal charges will also be filed, per the department.
The woman was also labeled a "a chronic problem in the community" by police.
They'll be pursuing criminal charges, but I doubt anything will come of it b/c Mental Illnes.
Does it matter? Idiot is all that’s needed to know.
The thousands of spring break kids that spread this thing and brought it home to kill Mom and Grandma were mighty White.
Without more information, why are we supposed to believe that this actually even happened? It could be just something put in a paper because there wasn’t much else going on that day. Wouldn’t that much financial loss constitute a felony?
Costco checks your temp b4 you are allowed to enter. Maybe that’s a new and upcoming normal.
Remove them to the city square, erect hanging platform, string her up!
Leave body exposed for a week. Parade all prisoners in lock up past her. Inform them that this is there one and only warning.
Death is a highly under rated motivator.
Death is considered barbaric. Meanwhile, America is dying
Not here. I will cancel my membership if they try that here.
Exactly I was thinking the same thing, a rash of this type of thing will only lead to someone getting pummeled
I get the impression from the excerpt that this is not a huge chain but small maybe family run store. So the cost of tossing the produce will be harder for them to absorb.
She better be in no bail jail.
Maybe that's all YOU need to know, and since I live in Georgia I don't NEED to know even that. But I'm sure if the criminal was a white male there would be a picture maybe with a photoshopped MAGA hat. My comment was on the ongoing lack of journalistic integrity rather than the specifics of the case.
Shave, tar and feather.
Can’t see how intent couldn’t be proven. Throw the book at the moron.
And one year in the funny farm with bars.
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