Sure the guy did the right thing
But he did do the wrong thing in the first place.

It's cool he gave it back, but i don't think hero really applies.

$100 is awfully steep for a headstone. The manager should just spell the kid's name on a Mexican pizza and leave it at the plot. It's not like anyone's going to take it.

"You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is, but a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice."

Can fifty $2 bills get you a headstone?

Godscrack: Make him eat Taco Bell food.

That would violate the 8th amendment

I had such a hard time going to work after my brother died. I can't imagine making those beans after a child died.

hundred

hundred dollar

hundred dollar headstoooone

tag? Really? Is that how low the definition of "hero" has fallen?

I just took up smoking, then quit.

Cagey B: $100 is awfully steep for a headstone. The manager should just spell the kid's name on a Mexican pizza and leave it at the plot. It's not like anyone's going to take it.

It is our most modestly priced comestible.

The bucket was believed to contain at least $100 donated to help buy a headstone for the gave of Justin Weyland, 19, who died March 20 when he accidentally shot himself with a revolver at a friend's house.

Hero isn't the tag I would have chosen for this story...

I'm sure fnorgby will be willing to chip in a couple of bucks for the manager.

rodeofrog: I can't imagine making those beans after a child died.

The tears add that zing.

rodeofrog: I just took up smoking, then quit.

You're MY hero.

Count me in with the "Hero tag? Are you farking serious?" crowd.

His punishment should be watching this video. Incidentally this is also how the manager's kid died, he was killed by a rival taco rap crew.

I would have gave the money back as the food seriously sucks at taco blow. Anyone that likes Vel vetta is an idiot. Grossness is a requirement for those idiots.

Thief who stole $100 from a Taco Bell counter returns the money, which was a fundraiser that was going towards the cost of a headstone for the manager's son


For whatever other complaints I might have, I am not a Taco Bell manager trying to scrape together money for a headstone to bury my child. That is truly saddening. :-(

FTFA: The theft was caught on surveillance cameras and police say that other employees at the Bell had ID'd the suspect as a former high school classmate.

Fear of arrest now equals hero? Holy shiat. I should get the hero tag every time I decide not to masturbate in my sisters bed while she's sleeping because I know I'll probably get caught.

Hey, look at me, I'm a hero.

/Except that one time when she was experimenting with Extacy.
//She was asking for it.

SunsFanInLA: His punishment should be watching this video.

How I hate White Guy rap.

At least it didn't start with "I'm *** and I'm here to say".

Beastie Boys approve of the Hero tag.

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Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: "You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is, but a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice."

Nice.

"I don't believe he does."

tweekster: Sure the guy did the right thing
But he did do the wrong thing in the first place.

It's cool he gave it back, but i don't think hero really applies.


He did the right thing cause someone knew who the farker was and had already given his name to the cops.


Yea, hero indeed.

KarmicDisaster: A manager at a Taco Bell can't afford a $100 headstone for his own son?

"According to the 2005 funeral price survey by the National Funeral Directors Association, the average funeral cost for an adult funeral is $6,580.00. This is based on the most commonly selected items for a traditional funeral including a casket and vault. However, it does not include cemetery costs. A grave space, a grave marker, and opening/closing the grave can easily cost another $1,500 to $2,500. Therefore, a typical traditional funeral and burial cost is likely over $8,000.

Depending upon the quality of the casket, burial vault and other merchandise selected, a traditional funeral and burial cost could be less than $5,000 or exceed $10,000. If no services to commemorate the deceased are desired, a direct burial or direct cremation can be arranged for under $1,000."

Yeah, not a good use of the Hero tag at all. Dude was a douchebag for stealing the money in the first place. Less of a douchebag for giving it back but by no means, no Hero.

Really? So if I kick you in the face, but then spend my last $2.00 for a bandage to put on the gaping wound, I'd get a HERO tag?!?!

Because this whole "steal something and give it back equals hero" thing? I don't get it.

RookStar: Yeah, not a good use of the Hero tag at all. Dude was a douchebag for stealing the money in the first place. Less of a douchebag for giving it back but by no means, no a Hero.

/FTFM

tweekster: Sure the guy did the right thing
But he did do the wrong thing in the first place.

It's cool he gave it back, but i don't think hero really applies.

Seeing as how the employees identified him as a former classmate, I don't think the motive was guilt so much as fear of a bloody beatdown by an angry mob.

Godscrack: Make him eat Taco Bell food.

fitting but from teh 8th BOR's:"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

KarmicDisaster: A manager at a Taco Bell can't afford a $100 headstone for his own son?

They only make 8 bucks an hour.

This loser deserves a 'stupid' tag at best.

Are you serious? Are you smoking something over there? HERO? For a scumbag who stole a donation can and returned it after he was ID'ed?
Oh, and headstones cost a whole bunch of money, more than $100, try over a grand for a halfway decent one nowadays. All part of the vulture -- er, funeral industry.
A real HERO, upon realizing the depths of his depravity, would have organized a fundraiser or sold everything he owns to pay for the stone himself.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: "You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is, but a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice."

Oddly enough, came here to say this.

/"I don't believe he does"

Baryogenesis: Godscrack: Make him eat Taco Bell food.

That would violate the 8th amendment

that was my idea . . . least I quoted the text . . . whew!

Head (stone)

I've used old grave markers to build a set of stairs to my garden.

TurboCojones: Cagey B: $100 is awfully steep for a headstone. The manager should just spell the kid's name on a Mexican pizza and leave it at the plot. It's not like anyone's going to take it.

It is our most modestly priced comestible.

What a hundred bucks gets ya. I crayon and a rock. You fill in the text.

Why am I not surprised a poorly written headline goes to a Consumerist link?

/DNRTFA

Maybe he is saving up for a nice Japanese gravestone



/ never actually seen the "silly" ones on a grave, just at the stores
// haven't been to too many graveyards through

country_boy: TurboCojones: Cagey B: $100 is awfully steep for a headstone. The manager should just spell the kid's name on a Mexican pizza and leave it at the plot. It's not like anyone's going to take it.

It is our most modestly priced comestible.

What a hundred bucks gets ya. I crayon and a rock. You fill in the text.

Goddammit, is there a Ralph's around here?

He should have kept the money. Just about anything a Taco Bell counter thief would spend $100 on is more worthwhile than buying a rock to put on top of the corpse of someone who no longer exists, in this world or the dimension of magical sky fairies. If someone in your family dies, consider dealing with it like an adult and/or donating those thousands of dollars to something worthwhile.

Not trolling.

The theft was caught on surveillance cameras and police say that other employees at the Bell had ID'd the suspect as a former high school classmate.

What's worse, after high school, stealing from a Taco Bell, or working at one?

CasperImproved: I would have gave the money back as the food seriously sucks at taco blow. Anyone that likes Vel vetta is an idiot. Grossness is a requirement for those idiots.

That's why they merged with a chicken. Now they're all filled with nothing but brown people.