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How could you rob the Girl Scouts?!
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to read the local news online. You’re greeted with stuff like this:
Teen arrested for robbing Girl Scout cookie stand
NBC2 News
Last updated on: 2/14/2007 3:11:31 PMLEE COUNTY: A Lehigh Acres teen was arrested Monday for robbing a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a supermarket. The Girls Scouts were trying to raise money for a trip.
What a creep! I mean how much lower can you go? To steal from a bunch of little girls? I mean, Girl Scout Cookies are like….a tradition! I couldn’t imagine anyone doing what this kid did.
Alice Thrower and her daughter Andrea are part of a Girl Scout troop and were selling cookies outside of a Winn-Dixie at 1850 N. Tamiami Trail in North Fort Myers. Alice explained the potential sale to 17-year-old Timothy Quinn didn’t seem unusual at first.
“We had a young man come up just looking like everyone else does to decide what kind of cookie they like,” said Alice.
Quinn told them he wondered what kind his grandmother would like. It soon became apparent to both Alice and Andrea that Quinn wasn’t there to buy cookies.
“He just picked one of them up and threw it to distract us and then he took the tin thing and ran,” said Andrea.
The tin container held $360 in earnings from the cookie sales.
“I yelled, ‘Please help us someone just stole all the Girl Scouts money!’” said Alice.
At least they caught the kid…thanks to, of all people, employees of Winn Dixie, perhaps my least favorite store in the world.
Witnesses say once Quinn had the container of money, he ran through the parking lot to get away. But Winn-Dixie employees caught up with Quinn and deputies later arrested him.
Quinn is facing a grand theft charge.
Deputies recovered the missing cash.
I hope the courts take this seriously when it comes to trial…a kid that would do something like this, who knows what else he’s capable of. To say nothing of how frightened the little girl selling the cookies must have been. I think the mom involved in this theft really says it best:
“Taking away from kids when they’re in turn trying to help other people – it kind of breaks your heart,” said Alice Thrower.
My MIL works at Kmart and they are not allowed to question or pursue anyone they believe has shoplifted. Kudos to these employees for doing the right thing.
That was awful to hear about the girl scout robbery.
That’s the lowest of the low… probably stealing for drug money. ARRRGH! Great that the employees caught him.
I saw the video on CNN. I just can’t believe that these girls got away from being such little sociopaths; they need psychiatric help.
This is why we fight not to give every thing to our children and teach them about the value of things. I also live in the US and see how parents use money and video games as a substitute for one on one care. Some time I wonder if the parents know the difference.
They are just spoiled and the parents are the one to blame for creating these little monsters. This is just one sign of the incautiousness that is emerging from mainstream America.
Wake up and be there for your children. The absence of guidance is abuse to them and harmful to the people they will encounter in their lives.