Heh, that's kind of amusing, but at least it sounds like she's realized it's not a good plan.

Does it? The child isn't interviewed, so I assume you mean it sounds like the mother realized something.

But I don't think she did.

This goes to show what parents have to do in order to punish their child. If she'd given her sticky fingered daughter a proper spanking, it'd be she he got carted off to jail.

And her mom has no clue what "tips" her daughter learned from the street hardened 5th grader the next cell over. Her candy cigarette days are over, she's moving on up to the more lucrative hotwheels and baseball card racket.

Ah, an X-mas shoplifting story. This reminds me of a Simpsons quote.

I think she did the right thing. In the real world if you decide to shoplift you don't get a spanking and you don't get sent to your room. You get arrested. Kids are never too young to learn those types of lessons.

mom and the little thief

Back when I worked security I had 2 parents turn their kids in. In both cases I took them in the office (with their parents) sat them on the bench showed them our cuffs (I wouldn't cuff them WAY to much liability) both kids were like under 10, so I wrote up a fake little letter in which they admitted to theft, apologised, and agreed never to steal again. Said we'd let them go if they agreed to sign it. I put 2 copies on Target stationary, I told them that one went in the retail data base and gave one to their parents. Fun stuff actually.

Megain: mom and the little thief

Awwwww, the only thing she has stolen... is our hearts.

Actually, no. String her up.

EsteeFlwrPot: I think she did the right thing. In the real world if you decide to shoplift you don't get a spanking and you don't get sent to your room. You get arrested. Kids are never too young to learn those types of lessons.

Kids are also never too young to participate in schemes...as long as you keep them away from Wolf Blitzer. Get a kid that you know is too young to be charged to steal something small, turn her in, profit.

This is the most stupid, un-American, bullshiat I've seen in a while.

If I was the cop, I'd have beaten the mother with a rubber hose.

Raise your damn kids, yourself, and stop making the government responsible for them.

Any idiot who believes this was the "correct" approach, should be similarly beaten with a similar rubber hose.

/fark

if they're offering a reward, why wouldn't you take it while punishing you're obviously guilty uteroflamingo?

$30 buys a lot of....a lot of....crap at wal-mart!

Did she want that $30 in silver dollars?

Law enforcement isn't about common sense/ "Serve and Protect" anymore.
It's about generating revenue for the municipality/legal/ prison/ industrial system.
Good thing there's a couple hundred million idiots in this great country to keep the revenue flowing.

Let it be known this is my first...

Where is the ?


/Hot like Drew's beer never has a chance to get
//Is it a sin to hotlink Drew?

yea I stole a pack of gum when I was a whelp, showed my dad, and he made it very clear that little kids can in fact goto jail.

For some good reason I think about that gum whenever the urge to swipe something ever arises.

I got some respect for this woman, I tried hard to be a little shiat, but my pop thwarted that

Any parent that uses cutesy spelling such as "Shiane" is probably a meth whore. Bet she used the daughter as a distraction while she shoplifted the expensive stuff.

Really? Perry would cry.

GentlemanJ: Did she want that $30 in silver dollars?

THIS

Brilliant!

davidphogan: Really? Perry would cry.

I should have made sure it wasn't a version that sucks. Ugh. Less painful (new window).

Mom is a special kind of douche!

"I don't think Shiane would do it again, I really don't, because of all that I did," Lyons said.

...adding, "you know, with the trauma and the emotional scarring and the what have you."

tattoo stickers, eh?

String em both up!

/isuck at teh fake outrage

Yeah, that's going to make her daughter so trusting when she comes to her teen years.

I stole a pack of gum from the store Once.......

my dad made me go back and wait in line, tell the store manager what I did, and pay for it.

I think I was like 5-6.

This however, is a misuse of an officers time. Then again, if you read fark you know that that officer is just some dumb fat pig waiting to tazer you over a parking ticket.

I wouldn't turn in my snowflake, but only because I am not a douche.

thinks_on_feet: This is the most stupid, un-American, bullshiat I've seen in a while.

If I was the cop, I'd have beaten the mother with a rubber hose.

Raise your damn kids, yourself, and stop making the government responsible for them.

Any idiot who believes this was the "correct" approach, should be similarly beaten with a similar rubber hose.

/fark

So...scaring her daughter into not breaking the law anymore is "making the government responsible" for her?

2/10, man. Totally weak.

And Mr. Potatoass, seeing as how there was no conviction, no arrest, hell no ticket, can you please tell me what "revenue" the police made off of this situation?

Mikhail Gorbachev? WTF?

TheQuest35: Back when I worked security I had 2 parents turn their kids in. In both cases I took them in the office (with their parents) sat them on the bench showed them our cuffs (I wouldn't cuff them WAY to much liability) both kids were like under 10, so I wrote up a fake little letter in which they admitted to theft, apologised, and agreed never to steal again. Said we'd let them go if they agreed to sign it. I put 2 copies on Target stationary, I told them that one went in the retail data base and gave one to their parents. Fun stuff actually.

You bastard! I thought that went on my permanent record!!

And now the mother is going to wonder why her daughter no longer trusts her.

kidsizedcoffin: And now the mother is going to wonder why her daughter no longer trusts her.

So says the person named kidsizedcoffin.

I bet that is a cool story?

I tried to sneak something out from a store when I was a kid. My grandparents and uncle saw me do it. Instead of involving the police, they took me home and gave me a whopping that I didn't forget. I couldn't sit down for a whole day. Also I never did that again.

The daughter should have asked for the Artful Dodger and Fagin theft training CD.

Consider yourself at home

In this world one thing counts
In the bank large amounts

I better think it out again!

Lachwen: thinks_on_feet: This is the most stupid, un-American, bullshiat I've seen in a while.

If I was the cop, I'd have beaten the mother with a rubber hose.

Raise your damn kids, yourself, and stop making the government responsible for them.

Any idiot who believes this was the "correct" approach, should be similarly beaten with a similar rubber hose.

/fark

So...scaring her daughter into not breaking the law anymore is "making the government responsible" for her?

2/10, man. Totally weak.

And Mr. Potatoass, seeing as how there was no conviction, no arrest, hell no ticket, can you please tell me what "revenue" the police made off of this situation?

Suck it, farktard.

Yeah, not handling shiat yourself, and turning it over to some institution dedicated to more important things, is teaching your children something other than personal responsibility.

It's teaching them fear of the law with no real consequence, maybe, but that's a stupid message to send.

I believe the "take the kid back to the store and make it apologize" route is the correct approach, and that you're ugly and smell bad.

/and I farked your girlfriend.

Half Witt: kidsizedcoffin: And now the mother is going to wonder why her daughter no longer trusts her.

So says the person named kidsizedcoffin.

I bet that is a cool story?

Fortunately or unfortunately, there is really no story behind it.

Bunnyhat: She didn't have to call the police. She brought me down to the store and made me tell the manager what I did and that I was sorry. That was the last thing I stole in my younger life. It was such a dramatic experience I never even so much has worked up the nerve again.

This.
I was about 4 or 5, it was a toy car from the corner shop, and I was taken back, made to return it and apologize. Never stole again.

You don't need to teach your kids that physical violence is the way to solve problems, and you don't need to call the police on a 6-year old. Take them back and make them deal with it, and if you don't totally fail as a parent, they'll get the message.

Lyons then asked about collecting a $30 reward for turning in shoplifters....Lyons didn't follow up because she felt bad about asking for it.

Bull - the fact that she brought up the reward in the first place is telling. I bet she's fat and planned the whole thing because she spent her welfare check on Cheetoes and now needs beer money for christmas.

TheQuest35: Back when I worked security I had 2 parents turn their kids in. In both cases I took them in the office (with their parents) sat them on the bench showed them our cuffs (I wouldn't cuff them WAY to much liability) both kids were like under 10, so I wrote up a fake little letter in which they admitted to theft, apologised, and agreed never to steal again. Said we'd let them go if they agreed to sign it. I put 2 copies on Target stationary, I told them that one went in the retail data base and gave one to their parents. Fun stuff actually.

You handled that nicely, and hopefully the kids involved learned a lesson without coming to the attention of the police/CPS/newpapers etc. Turning your kid over to store security to scare the bejesus out of them is much different than calling the bloody police. WTF kind of mother calls the filth on their 6 year old kid?

A six year old?

You make them take it back and apologize, you utter biatch. You don't waste the police's time and burn the trust your child has in you pulling a stunt like that. She's not old enough to understand the ramifications of what she did.

This story is only funny when the 6 year old gets tased.

kidsizedcoffin: Half Witt: kidsizedcoffin: And now the mother is going to wonder why her daughter no longer trusts her.

So says the person named kidsizedcoffin.

I bet that is a cool story?

Fortunately or unfortunately, there is really no story behind it.

Good to hear, for right after I snarked, I regretted it.

I started thinking oh crapsticks, what if this person is not some twisted funny person and really lost a child.

Again, good to hear.

/serious business

Next Lesson From Mom: How to Offer Mr. Officer an Irresistible Blowjob

nom nom nasty: thinks_on_feet:

/and I farked your girlfriend.

The jokes on you, he likes dudes

That's 'cause I'm a girl, idiots.

So yeah, go ahead and fark my girlfriend. It's not a problem, because I have a damn boyfriend and he has no interest in any cock but his own.

/and my pussy, of course
//I probably have more sex than most Farkers combined

Lachwen: nom nom nasty: thinks_on_feet:

/and I farked your girlfriend.

The jokes on you, he likes dudes

That's 'cause I'm a girl, idiots.

So yeah, go ahead and fark my girlfriend. It's not a problem, because I have a damn boyfriend and he has no interest in any cock but his own.

/and my pussy, of course
//I probably have more sex than most Farkers combined

i used to steal candy from a drug store when i was a young'n.
never got caught. fessed up to it to my mother when i was 35. she threatened to take me to the store to shame me and make me give them money.
the store was long closed by then.

/i'm in sales now.