More fun with criminals in the news
A Florida man shoplifted deodorant spray and then, when confronted by the store manager, took out a BB gun, which looked like a black handgun, according to the Associated Press. Stealing is bad, got that. And threatening someone with what looks like a gun is wrong, even if it isn’t really a deadly weapon (it can, as we know, break the skin and cause a bad infection).
No arguments. He should go to jail. But it’s, like, hot in Florida. People get sweaty. Maybe we should be glad that this guy wanted deodorant so badly — not everyone is so motivated about personal hygiene. Seems like it would be a public service just to give him some.
Also according to the AP, a guy stole a photo from a police bulletin board “because he thought it was ‘cool.’” He was at the police station because he’d been arrested for, of course, theft. “Washington County Deputy State’s Attorney Bob Menzel told the judge, ‘This is a defendant that’s just not getting it.’” That’s one explanation, but I prefer to think that the photo was just really, really cool.
Charges have been dropped against an 89-year-old woman who refused to return a “neighbor kid’s football that landed in her yard.” She had been charged with petty theft. As a supporter of property rights, I’m torn. It’s the kid’s football. But it’s the woman’s yard. The football was clearly trespassing. She’d be within her rights to shoot the ball, you know, out of self-defense. On the other hand, it’s just a kid’s football, so it probably wasn’t going to invade her home and rape and kill her, so maybe she could have just given it back. Assuming it wasn’t one of those alien, transformer rape-kill footballs that were so popular in the ’80s.
Apparently, there’s “been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood over kids’ balls landing in the woman’s yard.” It could be that balls landed in her yard every day and damaged her prized rose bush. So probably the kids should have been more careful and respectful around the old coot’s property. Fences make good neighbors and all that. Maybe the fences just need to be higher.
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I think the deadly balls of which you speak were called Madballs:
http://www.madballs.com/home.action
And they is still bad-to-the-bone!
It could be that it wasn’t a football but was really Happy Fun Ball, which is not the sort of thing you want landing in your yard.