It is a sad day when hungry and unemployed people have to resort to stealing gift baskets for food. If there were only a leader that could inspire the country to get back to work so that the malaise would end.

Unfortunately, Reagan is dead. So we are stuck with the current occupant that couldn't swing his way out of a wet paper bag, much less turn the economy around (or blame his failures on the opposition).

Well, it was nice that the hungry thief returned most of the gift bag. Here is hoping the kid in chemo gets better.

In before some douchebag somehow turns this story into partisan asshatter----damn.

EnviroDude: Reagan is dead.

I guess stealing is easy when you dont have to look the person in the eye while you do it.

cgraves67: Good on him for returning the prize, still an asshole for not turning himself in.

doubled99: cgraves67 2011-11-23 10:18:03 AM

Good on him for returning the prize, still an asshole for not turning himself in.



Ridiculous. Basket returned, everything's copacetic again. Turning himself in serves no purpose.

Uh, no. Basket not returned. Not really. At least not in the condition it had been in when it was stolen. From TFA:

The Grille restaurant in Smithfield received a phone call from someone saying they were sorry for what they had done. They said the workers should check the back parking lot and that the gift basket was there.

The gift cards were there. The only thing missing was the food inside.

1/2 to 2/3 of the value of the basket was gone.

Ever receive a gift basket? This isn't a case of "I was hungry" or "I needed to feed my family." Gift baskets don't generally contain foods you steal because you're hungry and have nothing to eat, they contain novelty-type foods (in general). The restaurant in question is newly-opened, with a $10-30 per plate price range, so it's not catering to the wealthiest people in Virginia (though it is a little more than maybe some folks might want to spend every week, especially in this economy, it really is a bit of a mid point, price-wise).



Also, to the guy who asked when we're going to get healthcare for children, the answer is: 2014. But I will leave my opinion out of this to prevent this from turning into a political thread.

farkingatwork: Aigoo: cgraves67: Good on him for returning the prize, still an asshole for not turning himself in.

doubled99: cgraves67 2011-11-23 10:18:03 AM

The gift cards were there. The only thing missing was the food inside.

1/2 to 2/3 of the value of the basket was gone.

Ever receive a gift basket? This isn't a case of "I was hungry" or "I needed to feed my family." Gift baskets don't generally contain foods you steal because you're hungry and have nothing to eat, they contain novelty-type foods (in general). The restaurant in question is newly-opened, with a $10-30 per plate price range, so it's not catering to the wealthiest people in Virginia (though it is a little more than maybe some folks might want to spend every week, especially in this economy, it really is a bit of a mid point, price-wise).


Where do you come up with this shiat Why do you even mention it? Are you mentally incapacitated or otherwise lacking oxygen to the brain?

Last I checked, no, we don't know how much the gift basket is worth now vs what it was worth. Also last I checked we have no farking idea and it DOESNT farkING MATTER. What's there is there, what's lost is lost, and good on the thief for at least returning the rest.

Or he could have been a decent farking human being in the first place and, you know, NOT FARKING STOLEN IT TO BEGIN WITH.

Congratulating a thief for being a theif and saying, "oh, isn't that great that he at least returned half of what he stole" makes you look like an even bigger idiot than the thief.

If someone steals your mother's car, uses it to ram through her front door, steals everything she owns, but decides that, oh, she's probably poor and brings her checkbook and debit card back, does that somehow make him a good person because he decided not to steal her bank account?

You've got some seriously farked up logic you operate by.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: EnviroDude: It is a sad day when hungry and unemployed people have to resort to stealing gift baskets for food. If there were only a leader that could inspire the country to get back to work so that the malaise would end.

Unfortunately, Reagan is dead. So we are stuck with the current occupant that couldn't swing his way out of a wet paper bag, much less turn the economy around (or blame his failures on the opposition).

Well, it was nice that the hungry thief returned most of the gift bag. Here is hoping the kid in chemo gets better.

Why the hell must you bring politics into this thread. Idiot.

Because if we had jobs that paid more than minimum wage, we could afford the insurance to pay for the treatments and wouldn't have to steal raffle baskets to eat.

If you lost your job after the democrats took control of the house and then the white house, you just might be upset.