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Posted on 12/02/2005 12:11:53 PM PST by kingattax
CU Freshman Begs Police To Let Him Go
BOULDER, Colo. -- A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado faces criminal charges after police said he made a fake bar code label to buy an iPod for $4.99. The actual price of the MP3 player was $149.99.
Jonathan Baldino was arrested Wednesday at a Target store and police said the electrical-engineering student admitted making phony bar codes using a program he downloaded off the Internet.
Police said he downloaded a program called "Barcode Magic" and used it to generate low-priced codes that could placed over actual, more expensive, bar codes.
Baldino wrote a statement for police that begged them not to prosecute him, according to The Denver Post.
"I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN and I am once more terribly sorry," Baldino wrote. "Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please!"
Baldino faces a felony charge of forgery and two misdemeanor counts of theft.
According to its Web site, the Barcode Magic program allows users to "generate bar codes for home, hobby and retail with our easy to use bar-code software. Simply select a bar-code style and font, enter desired text and numbers, and a bar code is automatically created."
Police said that Baldino didn't even pay for the software program. He used barcodes generated during the 15-day trial period
Sure you won't.
Hmmm, wait until printable RFID becomes a reality.
This is done more often than is reported... this is why RFID is such a key to the retail future.
4.99?....Idiot.
Back in the days when they had price tag stickers, people used to switch those.
A lot of times the clerk with the sticky gun would put the wrong price on the items by accident too.
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wrote a statement for police that begged them not to prosecute him
And this idiot is allowed to vote?
I hope he wasn't planing on law school down the road. This felony conviction will impact him in ways he still cannot fathom.
In related news, another brilliant college student downloaded news stories about bank robberies and then attempted to rob his local bank. When caught he swore he would "NEVER EVER DO IT AGAIN." With that sort of promise, how could the police press charges? So they released him. /sarc
He could have at least made the price believable. But then even at $104.99 he probably still couldn't afford it. He'd have done better to go for the straight shoplifting. At least he'd only be facing the misdemenor theft charges instead of the felony forgery charges.
Idiot is right.
He'll be the next rising star in the Democratic Party.
You were a kid 2 years ago. Now you're gonna be someone's girlfriend.
Just make sure you remember that after you serve your time bozo.
Ah, the old "ignorance of the law" plea. I wonder how that will work out for him.
What a stupid plan in the first place.
Even a pretty dumb clerk will usually notice that the season's hottest item that normally costs 149.99 shouldn't be ringing up as 4.99.
LOL! That's the best response on this thread!
He wont' get convicted of a felony.
He'll probably manage to plead it down to a misdemeanor and get a suspended sentence.
Heck, lots of people write bad checks, and not many of them end up with a felony conviction (it's still forgery).
Another one of Ward's students??
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That is, he's not "terribly sorry" that he did it -- just "terribly sorry" that he got CAUGHT.
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