[Baynative]

How is using the money people have tossed away considered stealing?

[ryan71]

On the positive side, people put that money in the fountain willingly. It was not taken from them by a tyrannic government.

[edwinland]

It’s an interesting commentary on society today that the papaer just assumes we know that she has a case manager.

[cherry]

the "four cats" caught my eye....

well, you know, those coins people throw in are basically coins they are throwing away.....we all figure some kids will fish them out eventually,don't we?...

cops need to go after the criminal, not the stupid or the petty...

[TangoLimaSierra]

In the old days the cop would have given her a couple of bucks instead of a summons.

[SandRat]

Wonder wht the COP didn’t just make her toss the coins back. ///////he could have given her a 5er out of his pocket so she could eat.

[AppyPappy]

Perhaps that effort would have been better spent trying to get a job.

[marron]

Don’t steal from the fountain faeries. They’ll sic the cops on you.

[marron]

Seriously, the cop should be fired. His salary is money wasted.

[Red Badger]

Hope and Change...............just don’t get caught with the change............

[gaijin]

Silly woman —she should instead have smuggled machine guns to narco kingpins. She would have gotten off scott-free.

Or perhaps she should have razed a US Embassy.

She was reckless.

[tflabo]

She should have said she needs it for the ObamaCare healthscare exchange plan signup. Free pass indeed.

[PATRIOT1876]

But if you run up a $700 bill at WalMart that you KNOW you're not entitled to, that's not stealing?

If you come into this country illegally and steal this woman's job, that's not stealing?

If you take multi-million dollar vacations at taxpayer expense, but pretend like there isn't enough money to let the veterans that saved the entire world from the NAZIs visit their own memorial, that's not stealing?!?!?!?

Something has changed since I was a kid....

[driftdiver]

Silly girl, she should go to walmart with an EBT card.

[Newbomb Turk]

If I were a judge I would summons this asshat officer to court.

What a gigantic waste of time and resourses.

Seems more and more like the police just assume everyone but them is a criminal.

A country that promotes killing of the unborn has lost its humanity so I really shouldn't be at all surprized.

[erlayman]

http://www.gofundme.com/4t4mxg

For the kitties ! So she doesn’t have to find a homeless shelter that allows pets or provides for pets.

[Nea Wood]

By all means, go after her, but the people who loaded 8-10 shopping carts when the EBTs were down, well, they get away with it.

[Zhang Fei]

If she’s unemployed and about to be evicted, I suspect she’s eligible for $200 a month in food stamps. There may be other personal issues at work here.

[grania]

This is ridiculous, unless there was a sign of some sort saying money in the fountain was being donated to some charity or whatever. If not, how is it different from picking up money found lying in the street?

One thing I do sometimes have to watch around here that's really annoying: There is a small percentage of people who will take tips meant for waitresses off the table. I always put out the tip a little early so the waitress knows it's there, or hand her the tip.

[SkyDancer]

Well maybe the cop was thinking since the fountain was a “county fountain” the cop figured she was stealing from the government.