xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

South Carolina? He is probably black.

Events like that are certainly rare.

it's good that he likes free meat.

greentea1985: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

FTFA "Now Zachary is going to prison for ten years after being given the maximum sentence for shoplifting (third offense or greater). ... The Aug. 26, 2009 incident was Zachary's ninth offense.

Yeah...9 times that he's been caught...he's probably done it hundreds and hasn't been busted.

/or he's just really bad at shoplifting and gets busted everytime?

Well that is a dirty shame.

He's not going to resort prison, no, no no. He's going to Tenderize My Rump Steak prison.

Good thing he didn't have pig's feet under his shirt..that would just add a whole new 'foot fetish massages' idea that might rampage throughout the country...tsk tsk I say...

I don't approve of shoplifting by any means but third offense or no, 10 years is wildly out of proportion to the crime. I'm far more appalled by the "justice" in this matter than by the offense.

niiiiiiiiiiiiiine times.

Oh, and


an $80 side of New York Strip? Is this normal? Am I completely failing at life?
Please don't answer that.

Judge sentences man to 10 years in prison for 'massaging the meat' in the supermarket. To the cop on steakout stakeout: well done

I get anal when people misspell.

Well that's not waht I expected. 'Massaging the meat' sounds too close to 'choking the chicken' to me.

bubbaprog: greentea1985: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

FTFA "Now Zachary is going to prison for ten years after being given the maximum sentence for shoplifting (third offense or greater). ... The Aug. 26, 2009 incident was Zachary's ninth offense.

The state will spend far, far, far more money incarcerating him for ten years (roughly half a million dollars) than he could steal through shoplifting for his entire life.

Yeah, that IS pretty lame. Dude should just be on a "supermarket watch list", kinda like those lists the TSA uses to bother people. Gotta pat him down everytime he leaves a supermarket and compare items he has to what his receipt says.

/no idea how you'd really thwart a "career" shoplifter...
//jail IS too expensive, but damn...he's breaking the law...getting busted 8 other times obviously taught him nothing.

sonofslacker: Well that's not waht I expected. 'Massaging the meat' sounds too close to 'choking the chicken' to me.



Or as a friend of mine calls it, loping the mule.

Came in here to drop in a pic of Winona Ryder with some snide comment but having done a GIS on Winona I could see massaging the meat as an option.

bubbaprog: greentea1985: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

FTFA "Now Zachary is going to prison for ten years after being given the maximum sentence for shoplifting (third offense or greater). ... The Aug. 26, 2009 incident was Zachary's ninth offense.

The state will spend far, far, far more money incarcerating him for ten years (roughly half a million dollars) than he could steal through shoplifting for his entire life.

Se thieves should just be allowed to steal whatever they like so long as the value doesn't exceed the cost of locking them up. Gotcha. You have no problem with them starting at your house, right?

Dubai Vol: Se thieves should just be allowed to steal whatever they like so long as the value doesn't exceed the cost of locking them up. Gotcha. You have no problem with them starting at your house, right?

I don't know about him... but I actually value my property enough to protect it sufficiently to keep people from trying to make off with it. Unlike the owner of the grocery, apparently.

Well done Judge.

That sounds like a reasonable sentence.

WTF 10 years for stealing a steak! I now demand a Police States of America tag.

In all fairness, if he actually thought a defense of "massaging the meat" was actually going to be worth the breath it took to say them... he might not even know he's in jail that whole time (and be confused to why his butt is so sore).
Probably get out in a few years on parole and go home to his apt. and wonder wth his key won't work.

That's what having your steak out gets you.

Dubai Vol:

Se thieves should just be allowed to steal whatever they like so long as the value doesn't exceed the cost of locking them up. Gotcha. You have no problem with them starting at your house, right?

Surely there can be a happy medium? Locking someone up at great cost for 10 years does not seem a reasonable benefit to society in return for the theft of an $80 piece of meat. Dude might as well have raped a kid for that kind of sentence.

habitual offender... lock him up.

Now he gets to be Alice while his cell mate plays the part of Sam The Butcher

Shatner's Bassoon: Dubai Vol:

Surely there can be a happy medium? Locking someone up at great cost for 10 years does not seem a reasonable benefit to society in return for the theft of an $80 piece of meat. Dude might as well have raped a kid for that kind of sentence.

Which part of "ninth offense" do you not understand?

sonofslacker: Well that's not waht I expected. 'Massaging the meat' sounds too close to 'choking the chicken' to me.

Same here. I was expecting a thread full of "beef jerky" puns.

40yoVirgin: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

South Carolina? He is probably black.

Nah. If he were black, they'd have shot him.

Lesson to be learned: Don't steal in South Carolina.

Dubai Vol:
Se thieves should just be allowed to steal whatever they like so long as the value doesn't exceed the cost of locking them up. Gotcha. You have no problem with them starting at your house, right?

as long as i get a half of what was saved by not sending him for prison for 10 years, he could burn my shack down for all i care

/slashie for trying to illustrate a point

10 years for shoplifting...

Hmmm.

On a totally unrelated note, does anyone have any ideas on why US prisons are overcrowded?

Mercutio74: 10 years for shoplifting...

Hmmm.

On a totally unrelated note, does anyone have any ideas on why US prisons are overcrowded?

Apparently he's done this more than once, FTA.

And on an unrelated note, it's snowing here.

greentea1985: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

FTFA "Now Zachary is going to prison for ten years after being given the maximum sentence for shoplifting (third offense or greater). ... The Aug. 26, 2009 incident was Zachary's ninth offense.

What they should do is specify a sentence (fine and/or jail time) for a given offense. Any time a person is convicted of an offense and has a prior conviction (in the past 10 years) of a similar or the same offense, their penalty is simply double what their sentence was the last time they were convicted. Now if your last offense was the 5th time and it was just over 9 years ago, your current conviction would be considered the 6th. Also, time spent incarcerated for any reason (even if completely unrelated) would not count toward the 10 years the offense remains on your record.

Shop lift once, 10 days in jail
On the 9th offense, that would be just over 7 years in jail)

40yoVirgin: xanadian: TEN YEARS for shoplifting? Whoa.

South Carolina? He is probably black.

I was going to say "Yeah probably because over half the SC population is black". But then I checked the Census and I gotta call bullshiat on 28.5%. It sure seems like a higher percentage than that, or did when I used to live there.

Although it does vary from town to town.

He sounds well seasoned

/nothin'

Dubai Vol:

Which part of "ninth offense" do you not understand?

I understand all of it, but that's not the point. Let's say it was 9 $80 pieces of meat if that makes you feel better. Do you think his nine small-time offenses are worth the cost that 10 years of imprisonment are going to place on taxpayers? Can we afford to treat every serial shoplifter the same way? Personally, I think it's stupidly excessive.

Here I thought he was jerking it in the product area, completely different story from the headline than the story.

That's a lot of punishment.

/in the headline

Why didn't they give him enough time the 8th time they caught him? Or the 7th? Sounds like a case to too many judges slapping him on the wrist until one of them finally got tired of his crap and actually smacked him down.

MissesThePoint: Judge sentences man to 10 years in prison for 'massaging the meat' in the supermarket. To the cop on steakout stakeout: well done

I get anal when people misspell.