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Ohio mom calls cops on her shoplifting 6-year-old
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| Dec 23,
| ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Posted on 12/23/2009 8:15:40 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: Lazamataz
So, say at .25 cents a round, if you steal a CD, you’re looking at about 50-60 rounds, basically taking a 5 second burst from two separate SMGs. Wow, that’s just a tad harsh.
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:37:38 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Sax
Now if she can just remember who “Daddy” was......
/s
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:38:18 AM PST
by
Mac from Cleveland
("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
To: envisio
and you never stole anything again, did you?
To: JoeProBono
Which one of those guys is her daughter?
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:42:29 AM PST
by
dragnet2
To: JoeProBono
For a 6 yr old?
No, calling the cops was way over the top.
In similar situations I have marched my kid back to the store, made him hand back the merchandise, look the store manager in the eye and apologize. That was pretty traumatic for him.
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:43:00 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
To: Sax
So, say at .25 cents a round, if you steal a CD, youre looking at about 50-60 rounds, basically taking a 5 second burst from two separate SMGs. Wow, thats just a tad harsh.Cuts down on repeat offenders.
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:47:31 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
To: silverleaf
I agree. The mother gave up her authority - she’s the one to set her child straight.
To: ClearCase_guy
Lyons, 31, asked about collecting a $30 reward for turning in shoplifters but decided not to follow up because she felt bad about doing it."People think that I set her up or something to get the reward," Lyons said.
Ohhh nooooooo...noooooo
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:48:03 AM PST
by
dragnet2
To: Lazamataz
"Cuts down"!
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:52:34 AM PST
by
Sax
To: presently no screen name
calling the cops to discipline her kid is going to get real unproductive by the time that kid is 11 or 12 - maybe sooner
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:53:23 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
To: Sax
You’d have them over a barrel.
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:56:23 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
To: Lazamataz
(groan) bad pun overload!!
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posted on
12/23/2009 8:59:16 AM PST
by
Sax
To: silverleaf
No, calling the cops was way over the top.Ya but what about the $30. reward the store was offering to turn in shoplifters?
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posted on
12/23/2009 9:00:19 AM PST
by
dragnet2
To: Sax
Perhaps shoplifters didn't get the
BULLETin.
They are sure on the FIRING LINE.
If they'd only read the MAGAZINE about this.
Perhaps they weren't aROUND. Maybe they were in their CHAMBER.
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posted on
12/23/2009 9:02:48 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
To: silverleaf
My thoughts exactly. This mother needs help, IMO. An “I’ll show her” ambivalence instead of teaching her. More of an enemy type behavior instead of a nurturing, teaching behavior. Raising on threats of what I can do TO you, and not a loving/guiding/directing hand FOR her.
Now she has a sister who she can’t trust and a mother who she can’t rely on for guidance - because she may call the cops on her. This little girl must feel very lonely. Now that it’s in the news, I can’t imagine the torment from other kids.
To: Sax
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posted on
12/23/2009 9:26:15 AM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(3%)
To: JoeProBono
60 years ago I went to a store after school with some other kindergartners to spend our nickles on bubble gum. I got distracted by seeing the very first “ready-made” Halloween costume I’d ever seen. A block away from the store, gum in one hand, and nickle in the other, to my horror, I realized that I hadn’t paid for the gum. I ran......as fast as I could back to that store and amid lots of tears told the owner what had happened. I seem to have been born with an “honesty” gene that is incredibly active.
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posted on
12/23/2009 11:00:03 AM PST
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
12/23/2009 11:03:37 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Yep. That’s a great motto. Even today I can’t help telling clerks when they’ve given me too much change, or discover a stick of chapstick that I failed to put on the counter. I’ll actually go back into the store and tell them and then pay for it.
It’s a curse!
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posted on
12/23/2009 11:08:18 AM PST
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: ClearCase_guy
Lots of little kids do it....I had a couple of my kids take things back to the store, but first talked with the manager and told them not to go easy on the kid. Even took my oldest grandson back to a store when he proudly came back from town with his uncle and showed me the great sucker he stole.....I put him back in the car and he had to take the sucker back...I paid for it, but wouldn't let him have it...told the guy behind the counter to throw it away as he had already started eating it...but he had to hand it over and apologize....
That leaves an impression on a little kid....
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