she got arrested just by eating a deli sandwich Options

[angel-roh]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/16/katrina.a...t.ap/index.html

eesh. Just cause of a bite of a sandwich...and she used like $63.50... well she must've been hungry. i mean lotta people are starving in the people who got hit by the hurricane. i dont know why she needed to go to jail case of that...... eesh.

i thought it was kinda funny when i read this news... i dont know if it's funny to you guys, but it was kinda funny to me.

lady eating sandwich "yumm this is delicious" and a cop came "raise your arm up!" and the ladys says "why?!" and the cop says "for not paying your food and just eating it!!" lady says "but m hungry!!" and the cop say "you go to prison!!"

i dont know why i found it funny. if you think i shouldnt laugh and leave nasty comments... my goodness, just keep it to yourself. some people laugh, let them laugh.

[pshaa.shauna]

I don't laugh, I sigh at the stupidity of it all.

*sighs at stupidity*

I was watching the other night a speech that Bush made, and he said he understood if people were stealing food because they were hungry...to some degree.

Hopefully they fed her while she was in jail.

[Eryi]

Well, she is getting food in jail.

[angel-roh]

I don't laugh, I sigh at the stupidity of it all.

*sighs at stupidity*

I was watching the other night a speech that Bush made, and he said he understood if people were stealing food because they were hungry...to some degree.

Hopefully they fed her while she was in jail.

Yeah me too. I laugh at people's stupidity too. Not like I laugh cause they are in jail -_-;;;; im not that harsh lol.

anyways yeah i hope they do feed her...... gawwsh if that was my mom. i WOULD BE SO MAD. mad, if they threw my mom in jail. and yu need to have $55,000 to bail her out. that's freaking messed up. ok now i do FEEL BAD FOR HER. if i think of my mom. ok... i think it was really messed up for her to be thrown in jail. i mean EVERYONES HUNGRY AND IS DYING FOR STARVATION!! and not many people are donating too ....

[iheartjohn]

She ate a stolen good. That's equivalent to driving a stolen car.

[aera]

KENNER, Louisiana (AP) -- A 73-year-old diabetic grandmother and church elder who fled Katrina's floodwaters for the safety of a hotel ended up in prison instead for more than two weeks -- all over a bite of food.

that's pretty funny... but the police should start getting their facts straight.

[Ington]

...and she used like $63.50...

I think you butchered the story. It says she was accused of taking $63.50 worth in goods. There's a difference between using and stealing, and that changes a lot.

Also, it turned out that she never stole anything. She didn't eat a deli sandwhich. She was just getting salami from her car. Police arrested her in frustration after not being able to catch young looters.

[mouse_3k]

lol at least she gets fed in jail

[Ington]

anyways yeah i hope they do feed her...... gawwsh if that was my mom. i WOULD BE SO MAD. mad, if they threw my mom in jail. and yu need to have $55,000 to bail her out. that's freaking messed up. ok now i do FEEL BAD FOR HER. if i think of my mom. ok... i think it was really messed up for her to be thrown in jail. i mean EVERYONES HUNGRY AND IS DYING FOR STARVATION!! and not many people are donating too ....

Three more points:
1. What the hell, she's not even in jail anymore. A judge freed her. Did you actually read the article?

2. No one is dying for starvation. Starvation ~ death, you know. Not many people want it.

3. How would you know if many people are donating or not? People are donating, you're just pulling facts out of nowhere now.

[Aoiro]

She got sent to jail because of that?!
That's just plain stupid.
I mean, c'mon now, she's hungry.
She got affected by Hurricane Katrina, and she was looking for food to eat.
I bet they wouldn't arrest a white man if he did that.

[shortiiex]

oh wow..the world will be werider everyday

and she's a senior citizen she should get more respect

[OhXiet_ItzDonnA]

Arrested for eating? Ok...it's not her fault she got hungry and was hit by the hurricane. But she should get some respect like what she said^...she's a senior citizen.

[*stephinika*]

i think thats horrible. these poor people are just trying to survive.

[*xcaitlinx*]

I think you butchered the story. It says she was accused of taking $63.50 worth in goods. There's a difference between using and stealing, and that changes a lot.

Also, it turned out that she never stole anything. She didn't eat a deli sandwhich. She was just getting salami from her car. Police arrested her in frustration after not being able to catch young looters.

that's sad and pathetic.

[*lolita kitty*]

She got sent to jail because of that?!
That's just plain stupid.
I mean, c'mon now, she's hungry.
She got affected by Hurricane Katrina, and she was looking for food to eat.
I bet they wouldn't arrest a white man if he did that.

yeah they would... its the law, not a racism issue

and anyway, thats horrible. they just want to survive.
but two weeks isn't that bad. at least it wasnt life sentence, or w/e.

[Aoiro]

yeah they would... its the law, not a racism issue

and anyway, thats horrible. they just want to survive.
but two weeks isn't that bad. at least it wasnt life sentence, or w/e.

I think what I think.
Here's what I'm talking about.

[demolished]

Wow. It cracked me up. That's really dumb.

[Heewee]

That made me mad the police are accusing her of something she didn't do...and for something so petty too. I'm using that article for my weekly current events for Government class. Thanks.

[PrettyBrownEyez3]

I don't laugh, I sigh at the stupidity of it all.

*sighs at stupidity*

I was watching the other night a speech that Bush made, and he said he understood if people were stealing food because they were hungry...to some degree.

Hopefully they fed her while she was in jail.

Yep. They are suck @$$holes. It's retarded. What the hell did they do that for? God.

[emazing]

They're so irresponsible; arresting her for eating a sandwich?
I think that the looting has gone to their heads, I wouldn't blame them on that sole reason, but y'know.
The woman was hungry.
LET THE WOMAN EAT without getting disturbed and put into jail.

[jue]

shes a hurrican victim for crying out loud. and shes 73 years old. Shes hungry and she stole some food. Its not like she robbed a whole bank.
these police are overreacting.

[[Deep]Thought63]

that's stupid. man, that cop should know his priorities! I think she should just serve community service if she got in trouble for not paying for a sandwich. that is crap, Bush, if this message get's to you, help your people,l you wouldn't want taht to happen to you.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

thats horrible. poor grandma.

why arrest the elderly old woman w/ a bit of sausage than the younger, capable of looting and running people ?

[*incoherent*]

if i worked somewhere, i would have just given her food. woohoo a hole $63...i'll pay em back. they can take it out of my paycheck just because im trying to be nice to a woman that has no money, no house, and no place to go.

it seems she was wrongly accused though.

[*danielle_x3*]

That made me mad the police are accusing her of something she didn't do...and for something so petty too.

i agreee. i was like .. what? anyway. the police made a mistake

[mocassinsx29]

Ugh, police did it "in frustation of not being able to catch young looters"?!?! That's just unfair. If they did that to me... *feels bitchslap comin on*