Yes, and i admit that more happened than i believed.
But there is in fact a difference between stealing a single calculator, and a situation where they were stealing all of the school’s calculators.
And apparently, by his own admission, he did in fact know who was stealing all the calculators.
Certainly you find it problematic that he’s pretending that he sold stolen goods “in a panic”.
I mean, you don’t just panic and sell stolen stuff.
Who is they? The charges were dropped. Yeah he says he stole a calculator, once. That doesn’t mean he stole them all. He did dumb kid things while being a dumb kid. Most people don’t get what was it, 6 officers at their house over this stuff. I know kids that stole textbooks, and believe me, those were not cheap, No one showed up at their houses, took their computers for a long period of time and only to return them later with no charges.
This only happened because there was an issue between that cop and that kid which only happened because they stationed a cop there in the first place.
I am not sure why the cop was put there in the first place but this is not protection.
You’d be amazed at how dumb kids can be. Simply amazed. I’ve worked with troubled youth before, in a program… the things they do was just amazing.
He and his friends.
By his own admission.
These are high school friends. He didn’t admit to being part of some big stolen calculator ring. Did you know what all your friends did in High School? Come on. This was years go. Kids showed up with actual guns at school and got less attention than that. Hell someone walked off with three computers at college and they didn’t do the things described here.
But he said that he did in fact know that his friend stole a whole cart of calculators and was handing them out to their friends to sell.
I mean, he said it.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean he was as part of it. They entered his house, not the other kids. It is perfectly normal for a high school kid to not want to rat out their friend. That is not nefarious at all. It’s not even uncommon. The cop also claims they found info on the laptop but then… never charged them. If there was enough info there, why didn’t they charge anyone?
The cop also said to listen to him, to see his perceptive on that encounter too.
Yeah, which doesn’t really seem to be in line with a really evil cop who had it out to get this guy.
We now know that he actually did in fact steal at least one calculator, and he did in fact know at least one person who stole a bunch of them. So it wasn’t like the cop’s suspicions were unfounded.
Given that some of this kid’s original version of the story wasn’t quite true, it may be that other parts involved a bit of hyperbole.
Fine, when kids steal calculators we should send armed police to their doors. Now let’s sit back and wait for all the other stories to start rolling in in from all across the nation, presumably most of them would be white kids telling these stores since there are still way more of them than black kids or…
Kids steal stuff. When it’s at the or involves school property it usually involves a reprimand, suspension and paying it back… not jail and armed cops… and again, they did not charge him.
I didn’t.
You think no one at your school ever stole anything, your entire school, hell even your graduating class? You guys never had mutilated textbooks, missing supplies, missing calculators. Okay. Whatever. We should clearly send 6-7 cops to every missing items, maybe only 2 if it’s crayons.
I didn’t say no one ever stole stuff.
I said that I didn’t.
I get that you didn’t want to believe him, that you thought he has some sort of nefarious scheme going on and that his story wasn’t on the level.
I never expected his story to be 100%. There is no evidence that he’s some sort corrupt guy just trying to get his clicks up, and after all that, at the end of the day, they did not even charge him. He is not some sort of lifelong criminal here. He was probably a stupid kid, making not the best choices and probably not remembering things just right. Even the cop though says we should listen to him, and none of this changes the fact that a police presence in schools is not always a good thing. We don’t need our police out there protecting our calculators.
At this point I’d just be repeating myself, so I’ll just let it go.
Calculators today, staplers tomorrow, next day desks. Or laptops. I can’t count how many schools around here have been broken into and had laptops stolen.
I wouldn’t even think there would be that much money in stolen laptops anymore.
Thieves tend to not believe they will be caught, and because they don’t think they’ll be caught, they don’t really pay attention to consequences.
The number one crime in many industries and at many places of work is employee theft, not just from the company but from other employees. These are people who will risk a criminal record, their job, and their reputation sometimes over stupid things like a bag of candy worth maybe 10 dollars. I’ve seen it happen.
If you’re in a room full of people, there’s probably a a thief in there. Their reasoning varies too, sometimes it’s because they feel wrong, some actually think it’s a victim-less crime, hey they’re insured, and others think it’s just a slap on a wrist. And it’s often like for so little, losing a 40k a year job for 1k that’s not even cash. Heck we just saw an article about nuns, freaking nuns, stealing from church, and I don’t think 6 cops with guns showed up to take them in, just in case.
Kids. You can often get through to them early on if you can get them before they get engulfed by the system. Fifty cent candy bars, a pack of cigarettes or a DVD that will be in a 5 dollar bin in a year.
I worked in a warehouse, every couple of days you’d see some cardboard box ripped open and one or two bags of candy, just expensive but really not impossible to get stuff taken… and the employees got great discounts and this was after years when they used to get slightly less perfect stuff away. They had to stop doing it because the security, again not police, security guards couldn’t tell the difference between what an employee was allowed to take and what was being stolen. If they were caught, they were escorted off the premises and fired. That was it.
“Oh sure, now he’s a little boy stealing toys. But someday, he’ll be a grown man. Stealing stadiums, and… quarries.”
Here’s the story that this kid originally presented, which i found unbelievable:
“This cop didn’t like me, and had a search warrant issued over a calculator, which I didn’t even steal!”
When in reality, now, by his own admission, the actual story is:
“I actually did steal a calculator, and my friend stole an entire cart of calculators, and everyone was stealing them. The cop got a search warrant based on the fact that the school was losing a bunch of electronics.”
Those are two dramatically different stories.
Yes, that is a referee forcing a young man to cut his hair.
Article blocked by subscription prompt, but do they not wear helmets there?
They do, there is a twitter video linked in the WaPo article of the match where they are wearing the headgear:
https://twitter.com/MikeFrankelSNJ/status/1075811774954463235?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1075811774954463235&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fsports%2F2018%2F12%2F21%2Freferee-high-school-wrestler-cut-your-dreadlocks-or-forfeit%2F
