i hate to admit it but my cousin who was(and still is) strung out on crack did this. stole someones phone, then called them at thier house and offered to sell it back. although he told them he found it. what a dumbass. yeah they didnt believe his story.

/csb off

I came here to say "cocaine is a hell of a drug" but Freakin Rican pretty much covered it.

weapons grade stupidity. Just being drug addled can't explain this

Death_Poot: weapons grade stupidity. Just being drug addled can't explain this


Anyone who has spent any amount of time in a prison, (as a staffer, not an inmate) will tell you that the single most common human condition amongst the inmates is sheer, outright stupidity. They comprise the lowest section of the human intelligence range. Prisons are brimming over with people with IQs in the low 60s to the upper 90's. They aren't there because they made intelligent decisions, they are there because they did really stupid shiat. Coupled with anti-social personality disorders, oppositional defiant disorders and anger management issues and you have entire institutions full of people who cannot process information in such a way as to allow them to live within social boundaries, even those within the prison itself.

The intelligent sociopaths work in Wall Street, or become middle management at some company such as a bank or advertising agency where they can hide it behind a facade of being strident and overbearing. They are always the loudest, most vocal people in the room at meetings. They are perfectly willing to lie to a subordinate to get them in trouble with their coworkers, or lie to their fellow middle-managers to put them off a track or to manipulate them into a mistake, or their own bosses to get them to blame someone else for a problem.

Everyone who has worked in a white-collar office situation has met at least one sociopath who has managed their persona in such a way as to always make themselves look good, no matter what the situation. I'd be wiling to bet that a large part of the recent economic crash was caused by such people.

We had a guy steal a cell phone from the open window of a limo while the limo driver was at a gas station. The driver called his phone and the thief said he'd sell the phone back for $200. One of our Sergeants got a bunch of marked units to be in the area around the gas station and two other uniformed officers and I got into the back of the limo to go with the driver to get the phone back. He walked up and had a brief conversation with the driver before we jumped out on him.

That thief nearly shiat his pants when he was swarmed with police. Of course. he claimed that he had bought the phone from somebody on the street. Good times, good times.

I've got to check out this city of Asheville. I haven't been, and it seems...unusual.