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Student hides in locker to catch a thief...and videotapes veteran TEACHER 'stealing money from kids
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | February 26, 2013 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 02/27/2013 3:42:27 AM PST by lowbridge

A California high school student staged an undercover video sting operation to catch a thief in the act of stealing money from kids' backpacks.

But to her surprise, the footage captured a teacher rummaging through students' belongings.

Linden High School sophomore Justine Betti decided to hide in the locker in hopes of busting the crook who has been plundering cash from book bags during gym class for the past year.

After all the students left the room, a teacher hung back, went through the kids' bags and took money, according to Betti. When the girl told her friends about it, nobody believed her

Determined to obtain definitive proof, the sophomore once again concealed herself inside a locker on February 13, this time armed with a cell phone camera to catch the teacher red-handed. A second camera was set up in another locker.

She did not have to wait long: both video recordings made by Betti show a figured believed to be the educator opening several backpacks and methodically going through them.

'I didn't want to believe that she would do something like that because she was so nice, but then she did it,' Betti told KXTV. 'It was really scary. I was like "Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just got this on video."'

After watching the incriminating footage a couple of times, the amateur sleuth took the evidence to the school principal, who promised to investigate the allegations and asked her to delete the video.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california
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To: Palio di Siena
"From the pics - teach appears to be a minority."

In the first two pics I would agree, but the one below, with more light, doesn't look that way. Besides, trash comes in every color, and stealing sucks no matter who does it.

21 posted on 02/27/2013 4:55:24 AM PST by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
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To: Venturer

She could live at the crowbar hotel while she pondered the treatment.


22 posted on 02/27/2013 4:57:57 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: lowbridge

“Obama blames sequestration”


23 posted on 02/27/2013 5:24:00 AM PST by twister881
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VIDEO


24 posted on 02/27/2013 5:40:10 AM PST by deport
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To: Venturer

“... Kepto’s we call thieves, and they are, and both are mental illnesses”.

I am going to have to disagree with you on this one, Venturer (as much as that breaks my heart). She stole money.. not trinkets. If she had stolen a chapstick or something like that... perhaps I would agree. I find it somewhat disturbing that so many thieves claim kleptomania as an excuse. A few years back, our PTA co-president embezzled (i.e. stole) about $18,000 from the PTA fund. Wrote out checks, signed other PTA members signatures.. the whole enchilada. Funny but when she was caught, suddenly she claimed she had kleptomania. No, she was a thief. Plain and darn simple. Thankfully, the courts didn’t see her mental illness (especially after learning this was her 3rd time of stealing) and she did prison time. IMHO, this matter should be turned over to law enforcement and the teacher should be charged criminally.


25 posted on 02/27/2013 5:51:19 AM PST by momtothree
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To: lowbridge

The Pavement song now runs over an over in my head....

Every building same height
Every street a straight line
Team color’s yellow and blue...


26 posted on 02/27/2013 6:04:08 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Doogle
Better yet:

"What did you just ask me to do, Ma'am? Please speak into my buttonhole."

27 posted on 02/27/2013 6:21:04 AM PST by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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To: lowbridge

Seems to me that Daily Mail in the UK is becoming THE place for information.


28 posted on 02/27/2013 6:23:14 AM PST by RetSignman ("...a Republic if you can keep it")
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To: tet68; JohnnyP

the same reason bad teachers are shunted from one school district to another when they get accused. This often includes sexual contact with a minor being covered over. Some parents will accept anything.


29 posted on 02/27/2013 6:25:48 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: PapaBear3625

remember the kid who wore the Romney shirt and was sent home? The teachers had the whole student body seething with hatred against that girl


30 posted on 02/27/2013 6:29:19 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: lowbridge

POST IT ON YOUTUBE, LIVELEAK and all over the web when you find it!

Delete it indeed!


31 posted on 02/27/2013 6:31:52 AM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: lowbridge

Perverts, Socialists and Thieves

The people of the town, they called us

Perverts, Socialists and Thieves

But every morning they’d put them on the bus

And send their kids to us.

*Apologies to Cher (Gypsies Tramps and Thieves)*


32 posted on 02/27/2013 6:38:48 AM PST by fattigermaster (Train for life in prison because they are stacking the bricks and setting the bars around you.)
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To: Palio di Siena

I wondered that - thus the request to “delete the video”.


33 posted on 02/27/2013 6:49:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: JohnnyP
Why would the principal ask her to delete the video?

You've heard of the thin blue line. This is the 'thin-chalk-line'.

34 posted on 02/27/2013 7:02:16 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: Bon mots

ping to #24


35 posted on 02/27/2013 7:12:23 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: lowbridge

To hell with going to the police just fire her and let every one know what she did and that she is a typical union thug.


36 posted on 02/27/2013 7:24:40 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: lowbridge

I would have had that video along with names up on YouTube about one nanosecond after getting out of the locker.


37 posted on 02/27/2013 7:35:19 AM PST by Clay Moore ("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: JohnnyP

Care to guess? I don’t need to.


38 posted on 02/27/2013 8:08:10 AM PST by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: lowbridge
"...the amateur sleuth took the evidence to the school principal, who promised to investigate the allegations and asked her to delete the video."

The principal sounds like a crook as well.

39 posted on 02/27/2013 8:11:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: Venturer

Please, the plural of illness is illnesses, not illness’s.


40 posted on 02/27/2013 8:49:43 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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