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I think this is great but at the same time, why are we celebrating this? We should be EXPECTING this of everyone. It speaks a lot of how our media reports things, how the parents in our society raise their children (both the good and the bad) and how we have lowered our standards for ethics and integrity.
No, what we should be expecting is that as soon as they realized the store was closed they should have left. This is no good thing they did, what they did was illegal.
BS! They KNEW it was closed when nobody was there! What is wrong with you people! The right thing to do was to leave ASAP! So, if your door is open to your house, I can just walk in and take a nap on your bed? Hey I didn't steal anything.
Stop talking, you are just embarrassing yourself. It was a sunday afternoon, it was sunny, so the store wouldn't be dark. If you went up to a store, pulled on the door and it opened, how the hell would you know it is closed?
Stop talking, you are just embarrassing yourself. If you went up to a store, pulled on the door and it opened, how the hell would you know it is closed?
When there is no cashier? You are the one embarrassing yourself here along with others. So again, if your door is open I can just help myself to enter and hang out if I don't steal anything?
What the hell were they doing in a closed store? That is trespassing. Don't even try and say they didn't know, they knew fully well it was closed. Stop praising this, what they did was illegal from the start even if they did pay for it.
no, no, no.
we must praise them endlessly and shower them with cash for not stealing something.
When there is no cashier? You are the one embarrassing yourself here along with others. So again, if your door is open I can just help myself to enter and hang out if I don't steal anything?
It is unbelievably common for small convenience stores to have only one person working, so the cashier is often in the back getting more product, or in a corner somewhere stocking shelves.
Do you just look for ways to be intentionally difficult?
we must praise them endlessly and shower them with cash for not stealing something.
I know, that is where society is going. Do what you want on other people's property as long as you don't steal anything. People praising this are morons with no morals.
It is unbelievably common for small convenience stores to have only one person working, so the cashier is often in the back getting more product, or in a corner somewhere stocking shelves.
Do you just look for ways to be intentionally difficult?
Stop with the excuse hunting. You are embarrassing yourself. Again, can I just walk into your house if the door is unlocked and hang out? I see you won't answer that.
I find it odd that this story made national news. To me it is rather silly that it did. Kids - even young black men with dreads - are honest and not thieves every day.
I was thoroughly ticked off this made the national news and the stereotypes it propagates. The attitude seems to be...OMG, look at that, black people...and they didn't steal anything! How amazing!
C'mon folks, we all know and work with hard-working god-fearing black people that want nothing more than respect and being left alone.
No, what we should be expecting is that as soon as they realized the store was closed they should have left. This is no good thing they did, what they did was illegal.
Really SourD. Did someone **** in your milk this morning?
I know, that is where society is going. Do what you want on other people's property as long as you don't steal anything. People praising this are morons with no morals.
I totally missed that the store was closed in the headline. /headsmack
That changes everything.
You are right, they trespassed.
I was simply looking at the paying for the items thing with nobody there.
It makes this worse because they committed a crime and then the story tries to go on about how honest they are because they paid for the goods. If they were so honest, they would have respected the closed sign. Them taking items (even with paying for them) without permission while a store is closed (closed store implies sales are not permitted) shows a certain disrespect for property ownership.
Now I am not saying these kids are thugs, but they do need a lesson of respect for private property.
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