Pair Arrested For Robbing Lemonade Stand 16
Unable to find a baby with a bag of candy to steal, 20-year-old Gage Turner and 21-year-old Warner Robins decided to rob a lemonade stand. 13-year-old Chelsea Edwards set up the stand with the help of some of her friends to raise money for her critically ill cousin Logan. From the article: "'I still can't get over it,' said Logan and Chelsea's grandmother Judy Bailey. She said one of the suspects scratched Chelsea's leg during the robbery, but that wasn't what hurt the most. 'My grandaughter was lying on the ground crying, devastated. She's been really having a hard time at night, the last two nights. I said, 'It's going to be okay. We're going to get there. One way or another we're going to get to Cincinnati, all of us. Don't you worry.'"
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I already sent all my money there, so I don't have any more to send... yet.
But once I get the pay-out from the deceased Nigerian Finance Minister's will, I'll be able to send plenty more.
Should be any day now.
It appears to be a scam (Score:2)
Don't trust these guys. It all appears to be a scam. I sent the Nigerian Finance Minister's younger sister two thousand dollars, twice, so she could get her late husband's will. But, I never heard of her since. Too bad, as she had shown me some interesting pictures of her in the tub.
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I don't get it (Score:1)
What first world society would be so heartless as to need 13 year old children to work to raise money to look after any infant, let alone one, "Born with just a third of his brain, he has cortical blindness, deafness and has had multiple surgeries for hernias and gastro-intestinal problems"?
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Amazingly enough, once this aired on the local tv station donations poured in and the family are making the trip. It seems that the robbers did them a favor in a backhanded sort of way. The two dummies that robbed them were picked up soon afterwards and are in jail, probably the safest place for them.
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One poisoned by years of a broken political process designed to give free money to the rich without coming right out and saying so.
The people themselves are much more decent at the individual level.
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What society of any world would waste resources on such a hopeless-cause cripple? Oh yeah, one that's gone soft.
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Looking at the universe as a whole, we're all irrelevant and useless. The moment you write someone else off, you're just a short walk along the spectrum you've created from signing your own death warrant.
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I admit that the potential of condemning oneself is indeed the main logical pitfall with that line of thinking even when thinking of self-interest.
stealing from children is wrong and all but... (Score:2)
Quite separate from the story of the lemonade stand thieves (who should be punished)...
Is it really a good idea for society to support a child born with 1/3 of the brain who is deaf and blind and requires multiple surgeries to be kept alive, cannot tolerate feeding, etc. etc. I mean I can understand why the family does, but with the money spent to keep this kid alive we could feed scores and scores of impoverished children, just for one example...