Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'I just wanted money for my birthday!' robbery suspect tells cops
Chicago Tribune ^ | December 2, 2012 | Mitch Smith and Rosemary R. Sobol

Posted on 12/03/2012 7:21:01 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

After officers arrested Jerry Warren Jr. on suspicion of committing a Wicker Park robbery Saturday, the soon-to-be-22-year-old said he only wanted some birthday money, authorities said today.

His plan didn’t work. Warren, who police say netted a whopping $4 in the robbery, was ordered held Sunday on $125,000 bond. He will have to post $12,500--3,125 times more than he’s accused of stealing--to leave jail.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: birthday; robbery
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last
Using Bob Costas's warped logic on gun control, he would blame the woman for lying about not having money.
1 posted on 12/03/2012 7:21:09 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Why didn’t he ask for some birthday money from Baraka Claus?


2 posted on 12/03/2012 7:25:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Ha ha ha...happy birthday dumbass!


3 posted on 12/03/2012 7:26:08 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Scum who’d just as soon kill you as look at you.


4 posted on 12/03/2012 7:27:14 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Four dollars. That and inflicting blunt force trauma on your victim will get you jail.


5 posted on 12/03/2012 7:31:35 AM PST by agere_contra ("An unjust law ceases to be a law: it becomes an act of violence". Thomas Aquinas)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

6 posted on 12/03/2012 7:31:48 AM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
Another SOB (Son of Bronco):


7 posted on 12/03/2012 7:39:31 AM PST by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
And how is this different from the Democrats' view of taxation? He was just redistributing the wealth of a 1%'er to someone who needed it more - himself!

If anything, we should praise him for cutting the government out of the process.

8 posted on 12/03/2012 7:42:14 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Apparently, he didn’t get his Obama money.


9 posted on 12/03/2012 7:44:47 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

He will have to post $12,500—3,125 times more than he’s accused of stealing—to leave jail.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
This line alone will stop me from reading any further.
It almost sounds like ‘they’ are saying this is wrong, under normal circumstances I might (like to) believe ‘they’ are trying to show the Irony but my mind tells me todays ‘reporters’ use an example like this to show how UNFAIR the system is to young minorities that are just trying to ‘turn their lives around’.

You don’t expect him to go without a birthday celebration do you?

Maybe he could ask his father for money (EXCUSE ME while I guffaw at my own idiotic suggestion).


10 posted on 12/03/2012 8:00:56 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
Awww, poor kid, it's alright, then.

F'n rich people will never understand, but this unjustly deprived angel had no choice, NO CHOICE, I SAY, but to turn to thuggery, or as we libs like to say, redistributive remedies applied against anyone and everyone with racist potentials. (/liberal reasoning)

11 posted on 12/03/2012 8:15:38 AM PST by LibWhacker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

It took two people(Mitch Smith and Rosemary R.Sobol)to write this story?

Chicago Trib got to be a union shop.


12 posted on 12/03/2012 8:18:07 AM PST by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

“he only wanted some birthday money”

What he needs is a pest control company to remove that spider from his head!


13 posted on 12/03/2012 8:22:11 AM PST by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Like father, like sons. Not to worry, he’ll be out soon enough to start quite a few families of his own.

And all those mothers will be financed by the few of us that actually work for a living.


14 posted on 12/03/2012 8:28:25 AM PST by soycd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
'I just wanted money for my birthday!' robbery suspect tells cops

Well gee, why didn't he just come right out and say so.

15 posted on 12/03/2012 8:30:45 AM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: patriot08

They always have the same look in their eyes in these mugshots-dead, soulless, mentally deficient. It also seems that the eyes are often close together.

In sum, a depraved, feral expression.


16 posted on 12/03/2012 8:32:08 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: rockrr

Hey! He got three hots and a cot!


17 posted on 12/03/2012 8:36:25 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Robert Heinlein called people like this “free lance socialists.” :)


18 posted on 12/03/2012 8:38:49 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
Warren told officers, according to a report, "I’m looking for work and can’t find any! Please! I don’t want to go to jail for $4!"

This, in a nutshell, how Liberals have warped traditional American values of hard work and personal responsiblity. Rob someone instead of working to get money, then when you get caught, tell the police you deserved the money and that you shouldn't go to jail. That logic is taught by today's education system and culture.

19 posted on 12/03/2012 8:39:27 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

And Smeagol only wanted the Ring because it was his birthday, so he killed Deagol for it.

Look where that got him.

Gollum.


20 posted on 12/03/2012 9:14:47 AM PST by LegendHasIt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson