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Ronald Broadway was arrested on his 45th birthday for attempting to steal almost $300 worth of food that was stuffed in his pants. (credit: Salisbury Police Department)

Ronald Broadway was arrested on his 45th birthday for attempting to steal almost $300 worth of food that was stuffed in his pants. (credit: Salisbury Police Department)

SALISBURY, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) – Shrimp, rib-eye steak, baby back ribs and smoked turkey. One Salisbury man celebrated his 45th birthday by trying to stuff all of it — almost $300 worth of food — down his pants.

Ronald Broadway, 45, was arrested Thursday night in the parking lot of his local Food Lion supermarket, packed with enough meats and fish intended for a birthday and holiday celebration, police said.

While in the store on Thursday night, Broadway was spotted by a Food Lion employee, who had caught Broadway sticking the food down sweatpants he wore under his jeans, Salisbury Police Capt. Sheila Lingle told CBS Charlotte. Broadway had allegedly duct taped the sweat pants around his ankles to keep the food from falling out.

The employee would notify the manager, causing the manager to follow Broadway has he exited the store. While walking to his car, police noticed food dropping from his pants, which Broadway allegedly kicked underneath cars. As police detained Broadway, they began to pat him down and discovered that food coming from the fly section of his jeans. Coming from his fly were eight bags of shrimp, eight rib-eye steaks, a package of smoked turkey and an undisclosed number of baby back ribs. Lingle said the food items were valued at $283. Police also found a fuel cleaner in Broadway’s pants.

“The officer had asked why he had sweat pants taped inside his jeans and he said it was cold outside,” Lingle said. “It was around 63 outside.”

He has been charged with shoplifting. Broadway remains in Rowan County Jail on $3,000 bond. Lingle said Broadway is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 9, 2012.

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  • Logo4245

    I hope they did not put the food back on the shelves. Ew…. :(

  • JByrd42

    One of B.O.supporters. He was just taking what is rightfully his. LOL.

  • gutsygirl

    Obviously, not a vegetarian.

  • 1389AD

    Welcome to my world as a retail clerk, having to watch for shoplifters, credit-card scammers, bad-check passers, and counterfeiters every day. This perp got caught because he was both stupid and inexperienced. But far too many of them get away.

    Who pays for this thievery? YOU do – in higher prices at the grocery store and everywhere else that you shop.

  • karl anglin

    Wish that a dog was following him
    to take a big bite out of him.

  • JOe Dutra

    How did I know? Before I even saw the photo I knew. Am I telepathic? Did you know?

  • Martin Weiss

    So many jokes – so little time.

    - Maybe he was just trying to bolster a physical shortcoming.
    - Sounds like he was on the Atkins diet.
    - Did he shoplift the duct tape from a hardware store ?

  • Count Yob

    Happy Birthday, Schmuck!

  • watermelisha

    I guess he considered the grocery store part of Obama’s stash.

  • Ray Sist

    You didn’t “know”. You assumed and happened to be correct.

  • BGko

    Pretty safe assumption

  • Bill O

    Who writes this stuff? “The employee would notify the manager, causing the manager to follow Broadway has he exited the store.”

  • rustry venture

    Could have been worse, he could have tried to steal tofo and bean sprouts

  • LaVonte d’Ashawn Jackson IV

    Had no room for a 40 ouncer, I guess.

  • Tyrone Washington

    Home boy be shoppin fo sum Kwanzaa food an sheeit, noamsayn?

  • Biff

    I get a lot of comments about the shrimp coming out of my fly too.

  • sombeody

    Is that a sausage in your pants or are you happy to see me. Oh, it’s a sausage…

  • Hugh Betcha

    Yep, I knew it too. It’s a pretty safe bet, especially if it’s a chimpout being reported.

  • Average Joe

    Feel bad for the guy – wish he could have had his party.

  • somebody

    Is that a sausage in your pants or are you happy to see me? Oh, it’s a sausage…

  • john

    This gentleman, most likely was driven by the “entitlement bug” to grab what he wanted without paying.

    he should receive at least 90 days , where he can sit and think about leading an honest and productive life.

    I said that because I need a good laugh once in awhile.

  • Nelson

    I can’t believe they actually posted a picture of the theif. I was expecting the normal description, you know man dressed in dark clothing wearing a hoodie lol. At least somebody had some courage…………..

  • MichaelNewman

    This is just so common now that it can’t event merit a chuckle. Our poor country is going down the tubes.

  • OhChimpOut

    WHAT?!? NO BBQ SAUCE TO GO WITH THOSE RIBS?!?!?

  • A G Kay

    Rumor is that he asked a stock person “Where. perchance. is the Grey Poupon?”

  • johne

    he obviously felt entitled to the meats or he wouldnt have taken them.Another loser in America.

  • Eric Long

    You know that they did.

  • Richard Noggin

    ” Ah, excuse me sir. Is that a beefstick in your pants or are you just happy to see me ? “

  • Me At My Computer

    A lot of Whites voted for Obama, so Whites can be ignorant too.

  • Wompam

    This reminds me of something I saw as a law firm clerk 5 years ago or so, and that completely soured me on the ‘law’ as it now stands in this country.

    My firm was defending a supermarket against a lawsuit for ‘unlawful imprisonment’ or some such, because a woman had been caught dumping several hundred dollars in beef out of your voluminous shirt (of course, she weighed north of around 400 pouts) into her car by the store manager. The manager blocked her car until police arrived.

    The woman sued the store – and the supermarket (well, their insurance company) was GLAD to settle for ‘just’ 100k, versus the multimillion dollar jury award that had just been awarded in the county for a similar situation.

    Who pays for her undeserved windfall? We do. All of us. Meanwhile, crack-addicted 400 pounders make off with 100k for stealing, and their shady plaintiff’s attorneys rake in the dough – which they promptly shuffle off to the Democratic party/crime syndicate as their annual protection money for this type of BS.

  • David Christensen

    I should not be ashamed of myself, but in the last couple of years when I hear terms like flash mob, high school beatings, gang activity, teen pregnancy, stealing Nikes, college sports bribes, muggings and shoplifting, I automatically think the perps are black. It didn’t used to be that way – but this is the example set by Obama and Holder – what’s yours is mine.

  • walter12

    One does not want to concentrate on race on these issues, but my God, what is wrong with this people? They appear to be not only criminals but out of their minds.

  • Finbar

    Reduced!!!

  • Finbar

    There’s a party in his pants, and you’re all invited!

  • goerge3445

    It’s always blacks. Jefferson was right back in the 1800′s when he said we should ship them all back before they started breeding and became to many to export. Look it up. Lincoln also echoed much the same. Our country has suffered greatly because of their actions.

  • Dave Mowers

    RIGHT ON! The system working FOR the poor for once! That supermarket chain used stolen money from American taxpayers via Wall Street to become the chain and therefore EVERYTHING THEY SELL SHOULD BE FREE. Stealing is capitalism as long as you are already rich, it is high time ALL Americans take what they want. Being poor and hating on another poor person because they assert the rights assigned to the rich is insane you should be ashamed of yourself.

  • Humpy J. Brown

    Ahhh, lemme see. Maybe crrrrrrAAAAAAAAACK!!!

  • notre9

    He didn do nuffin! Beez da raycist cops!

  • LaSasquisha

    Is that tube steak in your pocket or are you just glad to see me. Ha Ha Ha.

  • MilwaukeeMark

    Okay … You start fool. Open up your double wide trailer house and put out a sign that says everything free.

  • Kris

    Where is your house? I want all your stuff.

  • Humpy J. Brown

    I’d take your wife, Dave, but I’m given to understand I wouldn’t be able to stand the SMELL. Any truth to that? She smells like she carries shrimp in her pants ALL the time, not just when she’s stealing? Hmmmm? Care to comment??

  • Stuffed Sausage

    A guy from Salisbury hides Salisbury steak next to his tube steak?

  • Joe

    I thought they were going to include a long smoked sausage and then go, whoops..my bad..

  • GumboShrimp

    But you can usually talk some sense into a white person using reason, logic and higher thinking. That’s the difference.

  • Kris

    Dave, where do you live? Seriously, I want all your stuff. It should all be free right?

    I’ll be there tomorrow around 3pm with a U-Haul, ok?

  • CJ

    Is that shrimp, rib-eye steak, baby backed ribs, and a smoked turkey in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me??

  • Cy Clops

    “Coming from his fly were eight bags of shrimp, eight rib-eye steaks, a package of smoked turkey and an undisclosed number of baby back ribs.”

    And a one-eyed snake…

  • Man o’ Colour

    “I should not be ashamed of myself…”

    Why, are you a black perp?

  • Jobh_B

    Would you mind itemizing what you and your family (particularly your parents) have so I can make my trip more fruitful? I am of course being sarcastic, but I fear you are not.

  • Strawman

    What? No sausage?

  • Mark Matis

    I was SURE the photo would be of Sandy Berger…

  • somebody’s mom

    THAT is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. I laughed out loud. Kudos to you, sir.

  • Rick O’Shea

    He was probably spreading his business around and intended to pick up a few 40s at another store.

  • John_B

    I think I will reply before I report this comment. Having lived the life of typical white trash for a few of my teenage years, I contend you will find no difference in the behavior of people whose value system stops developing at the “me ” stage.

  • Soul Brutha

    There once was a man wearing bibs,
    Who said, “Let’s had back to my cribs,”
    Got the shrimp, and the turkey,
    Steak; forgot the beef jerky,
    But of course, the baby back ribs.

  • John_B

    Dave, yours is a dark world and I will pray for you to see the light. God has always provided for those in need (including myself). Just let the idea of a Supreme Being settle in and seek the truth.

  • Rick O’Shea

    Did he get any white meat?

  • Ray Vincent

    You’re an idiot. The only crime is poverty?!!! What about stealing from hard-working people that get nailed every year with tax increases to support idiots like this? Did you notice the diamond stud in his left ear? He can pay for that, but he steals food. Grow up!

  • Crosscut

    Every time you see one of these type stories it is always the same culprits. Why is this?

  • somebody’s mom

    Not the first time the rest of us have paid for the party in his pants, I’m willing to bet!

  • Occupy THIS

    Dave lives in an Occupy Wall Street encampment. His tent is the one with the hammer and sickle flag. Just follow your nose to the stench.

  • alan

    Im shocked a black man would do such a thing. How about the black guy go to the store BEFORE he commits a crime and explains he wants to throw a party and needs food. THEN offer to work an entire week for the feast. I am sure someone would have done somethhing for the honest guy who wants to work for something. nope, off to prison over nonsense.

  • Paco

    Send him a check for $300.00 from YOUR account after he gets out of jail, and then he can have his party, and you’ll be happy too.

  • rex dart eskimo spy

    happy birthday

  • 1389AD

    With that attitude, I hope the police are keeping a close watch on you. How much stolen merchandise is in YOUR crib and/or Occupooper campsite?

  • Clean up USA

    Normal people have to pay for all of the stuff losers like this steal. If we would get tough on crime, that means no 3rd, 10th, 15th chances for criminals, we’d have a much better society. Too bad the wussification of Americans has turned Americans against the death penalty. I think third non-violent felony offense should be life imprisonment and second violent felony offense should be the death penalty. How many convictions do you think this loser has? And it seems obvious that the vast majority of criminals commit numerous crimes before they actually get caught and or convicted…

  • Stop discrimination against plumbers

    What do plumbers have to do with crime? I’ve seem quite a few guys with their pants hanging low in the back, but I’ve never committed any crimes.

  • Carney Assada

    The difference is that the whites who voted for Obama will not make the same mistake again.

  • 1389AD
  • charley nash

    We’ve spent trillions of Dollars on this War on Poverty BS since the Johnson era. It never works to pay people to ditch school, act a fool, and party like bums all their lives. Grow up Dave. You sound like a ‘useful idiot’.

  • donald

    You are a moron….and part of the problem~ that guy stole enough food to have a big party. As far as poverty, I would bet that he has a cell phone and an x box and satellite tv……..

  • Mike G

    Here is an idea. Round up all the blacks in the USA and send them to Mexico and we keep the Mexicans already here. At least most of the Mexicans here want to work, unlike most blacks. Most Mexicans want to raise their children in two parent families, unlike most blacks. The blacks would love the climate and all the drugs and crime would make them feel right at home. As for not speaking the language, most of these blacks do not speak English anyway.

  • Cogiito

    One person fat enough to hide all of this food would be Barney Frank.

  • get real please

    to let you know it is against food lion / hannaford/ bloom company policy to do such a thing .

  • CW

    OMG-please STFU!!!

  • CW

    See above

    STFU-return to info wars

  • Treeman

    Lol…TNB ant it’s finest

  • weeone

    At least he left the live Maine Lobsters alone

  • wick10

    Dave….Guess you never heard that Clinton passed the gig to let people buy houses they were not qualified to buy, and Bush tried many times to stop it. Barney, Nancy and Harry kept up the push and the banks collapsed! End of story unless you are a Liberal.

  • atursix

    Dave doesn’t seem able to stay on topic. This was an article about some fool who stuffed his trousers full of stolen merchandise. Leave the polemics about the shortcomings of our federal government and financial institutions to another venue.

  • Tommy

    Well at least he didn’t pour flammable liquid on anybody and light them…

  • Eddy Welten

    What a moron. Cool name. though

  • Nick

    Come on, all you replies to Mr Mowers, no one can be as stupid as his posts suggests– he’s being sarcastic and illustrating what an abomination this obama nation is–the entitlement mentality of the lib democrats is beautifully captured in what at first appears to be a lefty post, but looking deep into it, it’s a brilliant conservative point buried in a most ridiculous liberal rant.

    It’s truly a literal posting masterpiece!!!!

    ….unless, of course Davie is really that f’ing stupid!

  • Spanky

    Obama voter.

  • g craver

    Why does it seem like all of the “down and out poor people” have jewelry, tattoos and of course, a lawyer?

  • mephistofan

    The man should go free. Shoplifting laws are inherently unfair and racist. They have a disproportionate impact upon a certain readily identifiable race grouping, subjecting its members to the humiliation of prosecution. No one bothers prosecuting those other folks suspected of refraining from shoplifting. It jes don’t sound fir to me.

  • Big Dog Jones

    It was a set up, I’m sure he walked in the store with those items already in his pants & they blamed him for stealing them when he walked out.

  • sketch

    Apparently, according to your responses, he should of went with boxes of Ramen noodles.

  • Clamydia Jackson

    Down to de food lion,,was any grape sodas in dem

  • Wild Bill

    I wonder who he voted for.

  • Jim Nicastro

    No but I heard he got some crabs

  • Larry Lund

    Noting, just NOTING gives you the right to steal. Especially from a PRIVATE NOT a government store/business. WHAT? You thing the store got the food for free from the government then charged you for it? Really stupid!

  • Call a spade a spade

    John Corzine and his Wall Street buds make black folks look like rank amateurs… WHO pays the bill for their thievery – you bunch of freakin ignorant brainwashed numbskull Drudge reading Republican chimpanzees.

  • George

    Wow just like a black, bet when those shrimp started comming out his fly cooled off his desire. Sort of disgusting but funny, move over Eddy Murphy.

  • George

    plus a kilo of cocain

  • Don’t shop there anymore

    It’s the same company that was reselling old ground turkey, by first bleaching it a several years ago. I haven’t bought meat there since. This would be a step up!

  • dbeall

    This article is not the place for this post.

  • Don’t shop there anymore

    His assumption was with the “odds”.
    If I could always get that good of “odds” in Vegas, I’d be rich and they’d be broke.
    There’s so many freebies around now, I didn’t know a guy had to steal.

  • Don’t shop there anymore

    I’m guessing Police report.

  • 4grandma

    Why is it when I hear a weird headline, I think……hmm…..what’s the ethnicity? Lo and behold….I am rarely wrong!!

  • Average Joe

    Paco: It would have been nice, that when a man in the richest country on earth turned 45, that he had the financial wherewithal to host a nice birthday party with his friends. That’s all. No need to get all angry at me for wishing well on someone.

    Charity is an interesting thing – I always receive more than I give. Instantly.

  • Al Tango

    Liberals are ignorant. Liberal whites are just as ignorant as liberal blacks. Conservatives of all races are much smarter, honest, and law-abiding than their liberal counterparts.

  • Who is John Galt

    Very safe assumption, I assumed also, and was correct….as usual with a story like this, or the “teacher” who didn’t like her hash browns and flung them at the McDonalds employee at the drive through window.

  • Hugh G. Rection

    …”The police also retrieved a very large tube steak from the perpetrator’s pants which the store manager claims was not shoplifted from the store………”

  • Who is John Galt

    LOL Why I wonder….hmmmmm….well on second thought I really only have to wonder how many times he voted for that “person”.

  • Who is John Galt

    Hate to break it to you but Jon Corzine is Obamas buddy and a big time Democrat. This explains why he is not in prison. We are aware that the working white people pay for all Democrat crime…black and white. We grow weary and will soon be “Going Galt”.

  • Don’t shop there anymore

    No you shouldn’t be a-shamed. That’s just the ‘brainwashing’ gettin’ in the way of your common sense.

  • Bob S.

    What I really like would be one of those Little Smokey Sausages but I guess he didn’t need to steal that if he already had one.

  • Ruckus

    Maybe he had the “Shrimp” in his pants all along

  • what_else?

    Yep, a one-man flash rob. Yassah!

  • 1389AD

    Or leaving the US entirely and never coming back, as the case may be.

    It’s liberals (i.e., Obama voters of every color) who commit the crimes and who rip off their fellow citizens and texpayers in other ways that are legal, but wrong. It’s conservatives who do the work that makes it possible for everyone else to continue to exist. And that’s that.

  • Dave Mowers

    Thanks to you loonies support for the thieves in Washington and their wealthy enablers. You’re a bunch of dogs with no grasp of reality. Stealing is our present form of capitalism, why will they not prosecute Jon Corzine?

    Rule 120 has been changed to ALLOW MF Global to use customer assets and funds as operating capital and that change was done under BUSH and is being supported by Obama but keep thinking your an honest, moral righteous American and that these people have your delusions in mind when creating legislation.

    ROFL

  • 1389AD

    I’m a hard-working retail clerk who ends up being paid less because these thieves cut into retail stores’ profit margins. I also pay taxes.

    I am the one eating the Ramen noodles (which I PAY FOR) on a regular basis.

    If this clown ends up in jail, he’ll get three meals a day, paid for by … YOU and ME.

  • Dave Mowers

    R-O-F-L!!!!!!!!!!

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  • dwoof

    tru dat

  • Durpadeedurp

    Who threw that ham at me?!?!?!

  • Jay Palm

    Holder’s people have the right to do this.

  • GFM2011

    No, Ray. He knew. I knew. Everybody with a brain knows, which is why you tried to stick up for the perp. Either you are stupid, or…

  • salisburysteakholdthemushrooms

    Well, he DOES live in Salisbury.. sheesh, what did they expect!

  • jgdp

    Is that a smoked turkey in your pants or are ya just glad to see me?

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  • felix

    A black guy? Who da thunk it!

  • Bono Strum

    Oh come on already, the poor guys hungry! Probably has a family to feed, what the hekc give him the grub and throw in a barbecue to cook it all with, and don’t forget the trimmings and desert and some good rolls or biscuits to go with it and a pecan pie, and some nice red/white wine or a six pack of bud…

  • Alonzo

    How do you know he didn’t have the financial means of paying for his party? Lots of those types just steal because they feel like it.

  • george

    Those he could have — and Michelle would approve.

  • george

    And you’d feel just as big-heartedly charitable if he got his grocery money by ripping off your home, right?

  • Mr. McCoy

    Amen 1389AD!!! Your comment is as true as it gets as this is an everyday occurrence at my store. And of course the thief gets a slap on the wrist! They should bring the cane here like they have in Singapore!

  • Jimmy Sparklenuts

    I guess he used up all of his food stamps on orange soda.

  • REV Wright

    Another Obama voter who was just “redistributin da wealth”!

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  • Jamesb

    That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking, I scroll down to the picture and *bingo* – there we go, “da’ oppressed minority, modern urban criminal.”

  • joej

    Yes, I think we all knew!

  • JHO

    GOOD ONE! watermelisha HAHAHAHAH

  • Jamesb

    I wonder what he STOLE for his 44th birthday? A car?

    What will he steal for his 46th birthday? A life?

    Put this urban criminal in the State Prison – until his 55th birthday.

  • Alice Polarbear

    I sure wouldn’t want to eat shrimp that came from HIS fly!! YUCK!

  • Mike

  • Sergi

    Aww… he won’t be allowed to vote for Obama now!

  • Dennis

    The guy is lucky he didn’t get caught by a K-9 officer.

  • Dave Mowers

    Your a clerk whose being paid less because Wall Street doesn’t feel your worth a dime. Sat goodbye to your job with the expanded H2B visa program for States. It allows States to replace you with foreign workers who are not subject to federal minimum wage laws. See Nebraska for your future, enjoy supporting a system that literally hates you.

    SUcKA

  • Dave Mowers

    The Fed claims TALF supported nearly 3 million auto loans, 1 million student loans and 900,000 small business loans, while it restarted the ABS market. But the program came under criticism from lawmakers and oversight bodies for having a less-than-clear rationale for its terms and by having taxpayers shoulder the potential losses while private sector participants benefited from non-recourse loans. While non-recourse loans are secured by collateral, the borrower is not personally liable for the debt.

  • Dave Mowers

    Dr. Allen Smith, author of The Looting of Social Security: How The Government is Draining America’s Retirement Account, has been reporting on the theft of Social Security funds for years. As he sums it up:

    “The government’s $2.5 trillion debt to Social Security is the real reason that so many politicians want to cut benefits. They are trying to find a way to avoid having to repay the looted money…. Given the fact that much of the surplus revenue from the 1983 payroll tax hike ended up in the pockets of the super rich in the form of income tax cuts, I propose a special tax on this group of taxpayers to recoup the missing Social Security money. The government used revenue from the Social Security payroll tax hike to fund tax cuts for the rich because that was where the money was. I think the government should recover the ‘embezzled’ money by taxing the rich.”

  • Tickyul Horrific

    Dats Grape Drank foo!

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    [...] Nutty News Salisbury, North Carolina – Shrimp, rib-eye steak, baby back ribs and smoked turkey. One Salisbury man celebrated his 45th birthday by trying to stuff all of it – almost $300 worth of food – down his pants. Ronald Broadway, 45, was arrested in the parking lot of his local Food Lion supermarket, packed with enough meats and fish intended for a birthday and holiday celebration. While in the store, Broadway was spotted by a Food Lion employee, who had caught Broadway sticking the food down sweatpants he wore under his jeans.  Full Article [...]

  • Ebonics rocks

    Go easy on him, it was his BIRFDAY, you know. Gotts ta have sum meat at dat party with da 40s you know.

  • JimmyObama

    Some lowllife shoplifts some food and people are up in arms, meanwhile the banks/federal reserve steal trillions. WAKE UP MORONS.

  • Yallare Ret. Arted

    95% of the comments posted here have been racist drivel. I can only image the twisted workings of your piggy, sub-par minds. God sure knew what he was doing when he magically squeezed you all out 4000 years ago. It’s science!

  • RicardoCabeza

    Dave it’s obvious you are a public school graduate with little or no reading compression and zero ability with simple arithmetic.,Wompam said this happened FIVE years ago that would make it BEFORE any bailouts happened. Please stop you make yourself look even more foolish with with each drivel filled post you “write”

  • Paul Peters

    I’m surprised he didn’t take the Salisbury Steak.

  • Ebony Di Areeyah

    WOW I be noticing so many racists on this site. Jus ta let u’s all know. Imma writing all yo names down on a list. And then I’m sending it to the NAACP!I think you should get def penalty fo hatin on the internets. i’d say more but this fuggin library be closing.

  • Dr. WINO

    It is written off on taxes…the stores actually profit by these actions.

  • Mark

    How else would you expect him to celebrate his birthday with his family if he wasn’t in prison?

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  • bs

    90 days served in Congress should teach the rascal a lesson.

    Next time STEAL BIG..

  • John

    Most monkeys are herbivores. This is a rare one!

  • get real please

    to don,t shop there anymore
    sorry don’t shop there but theabc repor tover 20 years ago was a disgruntled employee, and abc used false reporting, and later losted a lawsuit brought by food lion.

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  • Gibbs Bentley

    “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
    - Plato

    http://911essentials.com

  • rubin kincaide

    Can’t stand people who steal, and they’re everywhere you look: scammers, credit card thieves, people who will just lift your cards right out of your wallet/purse. This having come from owning a business for years and having to deal with this every day. It boiled my blood, and usually the punishment was a total joke – nothing.

    But somehow, I can never get upset over a person who steals food. Anything else, yes; , but stealing food is a very sad crime.

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  • Justme

    I watched a lady steal a ham last week, When I told my husband and my sister seperately, about this, they asked me if she looked poor and needed it. I told them I couldn’t tell. Now a days, you just don’t know. People are suffering.

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  • Tom Troll

    A typical Obama voter at “work”

  • benth165

    Is it just Blacks that are loosin it, or is it that the main stream media are only reporting on the crimes commited by Blacks. It does seem a bit distorted, doesn’t it.

  • Armed Texan

    The usual suspects are at it again.

  • TK

    Glad to see that Food Lion had the guts to go after the guy. I was in a big box grocery store and I watched a man with meat stuffed in his pants go right be the store person at the door. When I asked her why she let him go, she said that once he was out of the store they couldn’t do anything. Maybe she didn’t want to do anything. By the way, the man I saw stealing food was white.

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  • krp

    This just shows what terrible state that this country is when morons like you have absolutely no idea of how the ecomony works and will believe any crackpot theory that you hear.

    Social Security’s “looted money” is in the form of Treasury Bills. This is government debt that has been purchased by Social Secuity. They cannot just “disappear”, and they cannot go unpaid.

    This is the time of year when we get George Bailey of the Building and Loan in Bedford Falls explaining to people the basic principles of how banks operate and yet there remain people like you that are so ill-equipped intellectually that you cannot understand basic economics.

    EVERY BANK in the world, takes the money from their depositors and invests it in some vehicle in order to provide a return by which it can pay its overhead and in turn pay interest to its depositors. In the case of the Building and Loan the preferred investment vehicle is mortgages in Bedford Falls, for Social Security the ONLY vehicle available is U.S. Treasury bills.

    What nincompoops like you do not understand, is that is the government did not “embezzle” the money from Social Secuity, then the money in Social Security would have NO MEANS by which to grow its priciple, which would be no different that squirreling it away in a mattress and then it would be subject to the ravages of inflation rather than growth and the result of that would be a quicker devaluation of Social Security and an accelerated reduction in benefits.

    It is the DEMOCRATS that have been using Social Security to pay for deficit spending and for their social programs to buy votes. The “surplus revenue from the 1983 payroll tax hike” ended up in paying for more and more government spending resulting in more and more Federal Debt. It was BUSH that tried to DIVERSIFY Social Security to open it up into alternative investment vehicles rather than limiting it to just Treasuty Bills, but that effort was rebuffed by the Democrats that wanted to maintain the status quo by using Social Security to pay for more and more government spending.

    It is hard to say who is more stupid, the witch doctor Smith that wrote this tripe, or the idiots that give him the credibility that he has a clue what he talking about.

  • krp

    `How do stores profit on theft? They have to pay suppliers, utilities, business licences, salaries, etc. The profits margins are in the single digits. Their only means of revenue is transactions at the register.

    Exactly how does a store profit when someone fails to pay for someone at the register when they have already paid 90% of the price of what was not paid for?

    Obviously you are a product of the public education system, because your numbers simply do not add up.

  • krp

    Welcome to America, where extreme ignorance and stupidity is considered “education”.

  • Krp

    Plus it would end global warming as the drug dealers would have a shorter trip to deliver their goods and it would lower their carbon footprint.

    And we could reduce the size of the Federal government by eliminating the Border Patrol because there would no longer be any smugglers crossing the borders because they would be concentrating on serving their customers n Mexico.

  • Krp

    Wall Street? Seriously?

    The Ozark Mountains has long been considered on of the most poverty stricken regions in the country. To this day, its residents are depicted as being barefoot without indoor plumbing or electricity. But truth be told , it is now one of the wealthiest and most economically robust and vibrant regions of the country. Why? Because of Sam Walton’s Employee Stock Ownership Program which allowed employees to buy stock at a discount directly from the company. But without Wall Street, there wouldn’t be any stock for the employees to buy.
    I was speaking casually with a professor and he quipped that Sam Walton made a lot of millionaires at 6-7 dollars an hour. And these millionaires are concentrated in what has historically been one of the poorest regions of the nation. And it would never have happened without Wall Street.
    There’s your “redistribution of wealth”, and it would never have happened without Wall Street.

    Good Lord, you are a moron.

  • krp

    Actually that is not the case. They still have cameras in the parking lot and they have video tape running at all times. An Asset Protection Manager said, that they watch a lot of tape to build a case. If the guy comes back several times and they have him on tape several times, then they can present evidence to the Local prosecutors and get an arrest warrant.

  • Krp

    Seriously? The guy wasn’t stealing an apple off of a tree in somebody’s front yard. The guy was stealing steak and shrimp for his own birthday party.

  • Krp

    The rank and file associates are specifically instructed NOT to intervene when they see someone shoplifting but to notify management or security, This particular person was probably unaware of the procedures, but chances are the security has the act on video tape and would be able to notify law enforcement even AFTER the perp has left the store.

  • krp

    What was it that Dr. Cosby (that RACIST) said “Something called parenting said ‘No, You’re going to embarrass your family:”

    But he said it in proper English, so he’s just acting “White”
    Parenting? That for people who act “white:”
    Caring about your family, well that;s just acting “white”
    Having a family WITH a daddy, Well that’s just too white.

    I understand that your post is sarcasm, but my reply is not.

  • Krp

    OWSWipe types like you seem to think that if you put two dollar bills in a bank vault and light some candles, maybe some incense, add a little soft music that they would get freaky with it and nine months later there would be a whole bunch of baby dollar bills.

    Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Banks take the money “in the vault” and invest it and grow it that way. Social Security invests it in T-bills to make Social Security grow. Ignorant idiots like you call this investment “embezzled money”.

    Idiots. Just complete idiots.

  • lilbrick

    Face it…a lot of the comments are realistic and true. No doubt about it.

  • lilbrick

    rubin:

    Don’t make excuses for people. “Thou shalt not steal!”

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  • Guest

    Its one thing to steal a loaf of bread or one steak to feed yourself
    This n11ggger was abusing his stupid privileges

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