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This Week's Best Crime Headline Isn't About Paris

By TChris, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 06:40:39 PM EST
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When the headline reads "Butts Charged With Stealing Toilet Paper," there's really nothing left to do but provide a link to the story. (Despite Bart Simpson's dream headline, the underlying story is sad, given the risk of jail for a woman who probably lacked the funds to buy her own tp.)

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    This Week's Best Crime Headline Isn't About Paris | 4 comments (4 topical)

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    Toilet paper doesn't compare to THIS common theft (none / 0) (#1)
    by Yes2Truth on Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 06:54:57 PM EST

    Is there anyone alive that hasn't observed, on a daily basis, people pushing stolen grocery carts full of newly purchased (or pilfered) goods...making their way home, or more likely, to an apartment?

    Those puppies cost around $75 a piece, as I understand it.  If it's right to prosecute a woman for taking something needed to preserve her basic human dignity, then why don't we ever hear about people being busted for stealing grocery store carts - and I'm NOT talking about homeless people.  I'm talking about folks that are making their way home via shoe leather express, using a stolen cart...for whatever reason.

    you know (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 01:20:31 AM EST
    i just can't think of anything to top that.

    You're telling me. (none / 0) (#3)
    by jondee on Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 02:59:05 PM EST


    Ok - I'll say it since no one else wants to. (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 03:31:36 PM EST
    Workers had noticed the rolls disappearing from the Marshall County Courthouse much faster than usual

    I guess she was just full of sh*t, and couldn't help herself.

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