[wbill]

Well....I wouldn't want to be judged on everything that I did as a teenager (or at 21).

However, if he had just come out, said "Yep, I screwed up. Won't do that again.", he'd have been much better off.

I'm more concerned with the fact that he thought that he was smarter than the sumtotal of the American People.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

However, if he had just come out, said "Yep, I screwed up. Won't do that again.", he'd have been much better off.

But in a crime like shoplifting you'd have to wonder how many times he had got away with it before he actually got caught.