Friday, October 18, 2013

"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice." ~~~ Benjamin Franklin



WTF?

She only wished to buy a meal.
An Ohio woman was collared for petty theft after she was caught swiping $2.87 in change from a fountain last week.
Deidre Romine said she had just fished the coins out of the Logan County Courthouse fountain in Bellefontaine to buy food when a cop approached her on Oct. 7.
“The cop asked me what I was doing and I was afraid to tell him,” Romine told WBNS-10TV. “The money didn’t belong to anybody, so I just took it out of there.”
After the officer found the stolen change in her pocket, he issued her a summons to appear in court on a petty theft charge.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/unemployed-ohio-woman-charged-2-87-fountain-buy-food-article-1.1488438


Oh yeah -- that ought to teach a lesson to those billionaire bankers and Wall Street con artists about lying, stealing and cheating your way to wealth and power.

Jeebus - what a world of horrifyingly fucked up priorities we live in.

Oh -- and do we even need to discuss the ramifications of such an act had the perpetrator been a young black or latino male instead of a middle-aged Caucasian woman?

The madness of it all.




----TFG




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