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Pair Arrested For Robbing Lemonade Stand

Posted by samzenpus on from the special-place-in-hell dept.

Unable to find a baby with a bag of candy to steal, 20-year-old Gage Turner and 21-year-old Warner Robins decided to rob a lemonade stand. 13-year-old Chelsea Edwards set up the stand with the help of some of her friends to raise money for her critically ill cousin Logan. From the article: "'I still can't get over it,' said Logan and Chelsea's grandmother Judy Bailey. She said one of the suspects scratched Chelsea's leg during the robbery, but that wasn't what hurt the most. 'My grandaughter was lying on the ground crying, devastated. She's been really having a hard time at night, the last two nights. I said, 'It's going to be okay. We're going to get there. One way or another we're going to get to Cincinnati, all of us. Don't you worry.'"

16 comments

  1. Aww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We should all give Chelsea some money so her grandma can go to visit her poor ill cousin. Please send by Paypal to nigerianprince419@gmail.com.

    1. Re:Aww by Toe,+The · · Score: 1

      I already sent all my money there, so I don't have any more to send... yet.
      But once I get the pay-out from the deceased Nigerian Finance Minister's will, I'll be able to send plenty more.
      Should be any day now.

  2. Duck and cover! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Se should be glad it wasn't a duck that walked up to the lemonade stand...

  3. So now the real question is... by Azmodan · · Score: 0

    How much did they steal?

    1. Re:So now the real question is... by fiordhraoi · · Score: 1

      About $130. The irony is, since this hit the news, they've gotten over $10k in online donations. Blessing in disguise I guess.

  4. How sorry does a person have to be.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hope they got both arrested and embarrassed (publicly, as their names are posted). How sorry a piece of trash do you have to be to steal from a child?

  5. It appears to be a scam by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 1

    Don't trust these guys. It all appears to be a scam. I sent the Nigerian Finance Minister's younger sister two thousand dollars, twice, so she could get her late husband's will. But, I never heard of her since. Too bad, as she had shown me some interesting pictures of her in the tub.

  6. I don't get it by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 0

    What first world society would be so heartless as to need 13 year old children to work to raise money to look after any infant, let alone one, "Born with just a third of his brain, he has cortical blindness, deafness and has had multiple surgeries for hernias and gastro-intestinal problems"?

    1. Re:I don't get it by amiga3D · · Score: 1

      Amazingly enough, once this aired on the local tv station donations poured in and the family are making the trip. It seems that the robbers did them a favor in a backhanded sort of way. The two dummies that robbed them were picked up soon afterwards and are in jail, probably the safest place for them.

    2. Re:I don't get it by sjames · · Score: 1

      One poisoned by years of a broken political process designed to give free money to the rich without coming right out and saying so.

      The people themselves are much more decent at the individual level.

    3. Re:I don't get it by KingAlanI · · Score: 1

      What society of any world would waste resources on such a hopeless-cause cripple? Oh yeah, one that's gone soft.

      --
      I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
    4. Re:I don't get it by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 1

      Looking at the universe as a whole, we're all irrelevant and useless. The moment you write someone else off, you're just a short walk along the spectrum you've created from signing your own death warrant.

    5. Re:I don't get it by KingAlanI · · Score: 1

      I admit that the potential of condemning oneself is indeed the main logical pitfall with that line of thinking even when thinking of self-interest.

      --
      I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
  7. stealing from children is wrong and all but... by dirtyhippie · · Score: 1

    Quite separate from the story of the lemonade stand thieves (who should be punished)...

    Is it really a good idea for society to support a child born with 1/3 of the brain who is deaf and blind and requires multiple surgeries to be kept alive, cannot tolerate feeding, etc. etc. I mean I can understand why the family does, but with the money spent to keep this kid alive we could feed scores and scores of impoverished children, just for one example...