Thursday, September 25, 2008
Hurst woman returns envelope of money after outed by surveillance video
Clearly, if you find $700 sitting in an envelope on a counter it must be your husband's.
A Hurst Kroger surveillance video clearly shows a woman pick up an envelope of $700 from a counter on Monday. Thing is, it wasn't her envelope o' cash. A previous customer had left it.
The woman claims that she thought her husband had sold something and put the money in the envelope. After the video made it to the news, the woman returned the money and the victim decided not to press charges.
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Dallas Spohn, says:
A thief and a lier. no matter if she returned it or not. If it wasn't for the news posting the video everywhere they could that woman would have never returned it.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Guess it's a good thing you weren't the victim, Dallas Spohn. Unless you got evicted b/c you couldn't make rent (in the middle of the month!) or something to that effect, why hold a grudge?
Best to simply not leave your 7-hunney laying around, imo.
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Dallas Spohn, says:
Best not to carry it into public. But she is still a thief and a liar. She was caught on camera. What was she suppose to do? I am not near as forgiving as that woman was Doyle. There is no question about it.
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Teresa Gubbins, says:
"7-hunney" makes me laugh. thank you doyle
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Scott Doyle, says:
I do it all for the ladies, TGub.
Spohn, forgiving? How about appreciative? Everybody makes mistakes. This lady owned up to hers and returned cash. You're telling me the thought wouldn't even cross your mind to pick up a random wad of bills staring you in the face?
Had to take quite a bit of courage to fork over $700 you lifted...considering I believe theft amounting between $500 & $1,500 is a Class A misdemeanor. Glad to see that someone accepted accountability for leaving their money around rather than pressing charges upon its return.
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momzilla, says:
Appreciative? It's a sad world when one should expect appreciation for being a decent human being and not taking something that you know doesn't belong to you.
I was thinking about this the other day when with my daughter at her campus bookstore. We had challenged the girl ringing us out that it didn't sound like enough, and when we got outside we discovered that indeed she had failed to ring up an expensive textbook. So we returned and paid for it. You'd have thought we gave them a kidney or something, for pete's sake. They acted like it was a remarkable act, and THAT is the real shame. It shouldn't be remarkable, but the minimum standard.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Morality is subjective. Methinks a more pragmatic approach is to realize we're not all hard-wired to automatically take the high road.
So, in my mind, a good deed should be acknowledged...even if it was a poor decision which led to such an opportunity.
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Dallas Spohn, says:
C’mon Doyle, do you really think she would have owned up to it if the video of her stealing it wasn’t on every single news station in the city? If that is what you consider courageous then I am seriously laughing at you.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Considering returning the money potentially means jail-time, up to a $4,000 fine on top of court costs and attorney fees, etc...I'd say it takes some balls.
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Travis Bush, says:
Victim?? Using this term is merely an excuse for some numbskull who left an envelope of cash laying on the counter. Yeah, it is always someone else's fault and we should all go straight to the TV station when we do something utterly moronic. TV will make it all better.
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jtmbls, says:
momzilla is dead-on once again. It's pathetic that people need to be prompted to do the right thing.
Balls my arse. She was shamed into it by having the video plastered all over. Big difference there, imo.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Could still drop the cash in a safety deposit box opened under a false ID and tip lady/authorities off rather than face the music.
Not that I'd ever consider such a thing...
I'll be in Mexico if you need me!
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jtmbls, says:
I guess that's true. Not everyone would have come forward like that. So she generated a little good karma and gets to skip jail time.
You have an eerily sinister mind Doyle.
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momzilla, says:
Sure they would after getting several phone calls from acquaintances to let them know that their face was plastered all over the news media as a thief. She was trying to back out of it with a bs story.
So, I don't see any good karma coming her way as the result. Hopefully, though, the humiliation is enough to make her consider closely the kind of person she really is. Sadly, "finders keepers, losers weepers" is what most people get from infancy.
And as to the hardwiring toward honesty? No such thing. We're naturally selfish little brutes; it's what has brought us to the top (arguably) of the evolutionary ladder. Honesty is a product of civilization.
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