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#751
RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 8:17 am
Pennsylvania - Dutch Quakers ---

Therse motherfuckers are SERIOUS about a penny.....
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 9:26 am
(September 26, 2021 at 5:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 26, 2021 at 5:02 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Man charged with felony, jailed on $50k cash bond for 43-cent ‘theft’

Joseph Sobolewski stopped at a convenience store in Perry County last month where he saw a sign for 20-ounce Mountain Dew bottles: 2 for $3.

He grabbed a bottle, slapped $2 on the counter and walked out.

What he didn’t know was a single bottle was $2.29, not $1.50. So he had shorted the store 29 cents plus tax, or 43 cents total.

The store called police, who tracked him down. Pennsylvania State police officers charged him with a felony, locked him up on $50,000 cash-only bond. He’s facing the possibility of up to seven years in prison.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/09/ma...theft.html

This might be the most disturbing thing from that article:

Quote:Third and subsequent offenses, no matter the amount, are all graded as a third-degree felonies, which is the same charge for items valued at more than $1,000. Other crimes that count as a third-degree felony are involuntary manslaughter, institutional sexual assault and carrying a firearm without a license.

So, not paying 43c is legally the equivalent of involuntary manslaughter. That is, in judicial parlance, epically fucked up.

Boru

And yet cops able to needlessly kill people over and over again and get away with it without spending a minute behind bars
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 10:17 am
Far more people are killed by other people over drugs, alcohol or sex EVERY DAY - than are killed by police EVERY YEAR.

But nobody seens to think those things are a problem...
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 10:30 am
(September 26, 2021 at 10:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Far more people are killed by other people over drugs, alcohol or sex EVERY DAY - than are killed by police EVERY YEAR.

But nobody seens to think those things are a problem...

Why are you so full of shit?
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 10:56 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2021 at 10:56 am by onlinebiker.)
(September 26, 2021 at 10:30 am)Angrboda Wrote:
(September 26, 2021 at 10:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Far more people are killed by other people over drugs, alcohol or sex EVERY DAY - than are killed by police EVERY YEAR.

But nobody seens to think those things are a problem...

Why are you so full of shit?

Why do you hate children and puppies?
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 11:04 am
(September 26, 2021 at 10:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Far more people are killed by other people over drugs, alcohol or sex EVERY DAY - than are killed by police EVERY YEAR.

But nobody seens to think those things are a problem...

Fair point. If only there were treatment centres to help people with drug and alcohol problems. You so, someplace where addicts could go anonymously to get help. That would be great.

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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 11:14 am
(September 26, 2021 at 10:56 am)onlinebiker Wrote:
(September 26, 2021 at 10:30 am)Angrboda Wrote: Why are you so full of shit?

Why do you hate children and puppies?

Because I'm a bitch. You?
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 12:15 pm
(September 26, 2021 at 10:17 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Far more people are killed by other people over drugs, alcohol or sex EVERY DAY - than are killed by police EVERY YEAR.

But nobody seens to think those things are a problem...

I'll assume that your mean the drugs, alcohol or sex killings are not self inflicted.

Think of priests and child molesting. An institutional authority given the duty to protect is not suppose to harm the innocent (presumed?).
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 12:19 pm
(September 26, 2021 at 11:14 am)Angrboda Wrote:
(September 26, 2021 at 10:56 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Why do you hate children and puppies?

Because I'm a bitch.  You?

So very glad I didn't have a mouth full of tea when I read this. Hehe
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RE: Noteworthy News
September 26, 2021 at 12:52 pm
(September 26, 2021 at 11:14 am)Angrboda Wrote:
(September 26, 2021 at 10:56 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Why do you hate children and puppies?

Because I'm a bitch.  You?
I' m a cynical son of a bitch.


Did you miss that part?
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