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Thieves preying on fellow protesters (Occupy Wall Street)
NY Post ^ | October 18, 2011 | LARRY CELONA, LAURA ITALIANO REBECCA HARSHBARGER, FRANK ROSARIO and JAMIE SCHRAM

Posted on 10/18/2011 3:14:36 AM PDT by lowbridge

Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fellow; occupy; occupylist; occupywallstreet; ows; preying; protesters; thieves
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1 posted on 10/18/2011 3:14:43 AM PDT by lowbridge
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Redistrubution of wealth in a different even though illegal way.


2 posted on 10/18/2011 3:18:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: lowbridge

Surprise, surprise, no honor among thieves.


3 posted on 10/18/2011 3:18:56 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Ha ha, turning into conservatives before our eyes.


4 posted on 10/18/2011 3:19:24 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: lowbridge

They’re all thieves. Some steal covertly and others overtly. Otherwise they are the same.


5 posted on 10/18/2011 3:21:36 AM PDT by DB
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To: lowbridge
Theft and looting in a Socialist Paradise!?!

I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!!

And who brings a MacBook camping? In New York City?

"I have a $5.500 laptop computer... I am the 99%"

6 posted on 10/18/2011 3:22:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave)
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so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

All of the world's problems can be solved by saying, "Gimme!"

7 posted on 10/18/2011 3:24:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I won't vote for Romney. I won't vote for Perry.)
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Lol...How long before they blame Tea Party and Wall Street spies????


8 posted on 10/18/2011 3:24:59 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food . . . I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen . . . burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep

Unexpected! Anarchy doesn't work out as well in real life as these spoiled rich kids hoped. That unemployed complainer claims that his stolen Mac was worth more than all the computers I've purchased in my life, and he wants the government to take my money to support his extravagant lifestyle? These "volunteers" fall asleep with money they need out in the open and are so impaired they don't notice when someone comes in to remove the cash? This group really is as pathetic as I imagined.

9 posted on 10/18/2011 3:25:26 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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Some of those evil Wall Street One-Percenter JOOOOOOS must be coming down out of their penthouses late at night, dressing in scruffy clothes, and stealing laptop computers from the 99%!
10 posted on 10/18/2011 3:27:01 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave)
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To: lowbridge
So they DO believe in personal property rights after all!
11 posted on 10/18/2011 3:28:09 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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The thieves are giving them a life lesson:

“If you spoiled petulant Bolshevik Brats get your way, EVERYONE is gonna get ripped off!!!


12 posted on 10/18/2011 3:30:15 AM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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To: lowbridge
"Property is theft!" -- the anarchist Proudhon
13 posted on 10/18/2011 3:32:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I won't vote for Romney. I won't vote for Perry.)
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Gee, imagine how they would feel if they had EARNED the money and bought all that was stolen from them!


14 posted on 10/18/2011 3:34:18 AM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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So they DO believe in personal property rights after all!

Only in a very limited sense: What mine is mine and what is yours is mine. My needs are greater than yours, comrade.

15 posted on 10/18/2011 3:35:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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Just like the TEA Party rallies... NOT.


16 posted on 10/18/2011 3:36:46 AM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500.”

Gotta be the quote of the year from these frauds.


17 posted on 10/18/2011 3:40:05 AM PDT by Da Mav
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An 18 year old with a $5500. computer. Poor, downtrodden fool.

I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on the three I’ve owned in my life.

Looks like some thief decided to redistribute someone else’s property for themselves. Oh, the irony.


18 posted on 10/18/2011 3:40:40 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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Wealth redistribution .... the fleabagger way!!!!!!!!!

Two factions present...

1. The stealing and lazy poor, who would rather maintain their existence in the path of least resistance.

2. Bleeding heart liberal trust funders who are so naive to understand how they got their money in the first place. These losers are guilt ridden because in many cases they never earned it in the first place. Funny you didn't see any reports of crime at our tea parties!!!!!!

19 posted on 10/18/2011 3:42:01 AM PDT by catfish1957 (A politican with a heart usually means they have one hand in our pocketbooks!!!)
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“volunteers who passed out after a long day whipping up food ...”

Most likely they were passed out after partying all day as well as cooking and couldn’t hear a thing.


20 posted on 10/18/2011 3:46:28 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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