Woman Arrested For Stealing A Bible From Walmart

[n2doc]

In the most American of crimes, a South Carolina woman was arrested Saturday afternoon for stealing a Bible from Walmart.

According to cops, Frances Thomas, 33, was spotted by a store employee placing the Good Book in her purse while she was inside the Spartanburg store. Thomas, seen above, also allegedly pinched some cheese and socks.

After departing Walmart, Thomas was corralled by loss prevention officers, who later turned her over to police. She was cited for shoplifting and booked into the county jail (from which she was released Saturday evening).

The Bible and the other items “were recovered and are resellable,” cops noted.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/Walmart-Bible-theft-687243

[pacalo]

1. And "God Bless America" makes the perfect sub-title.

Providing the woman stole because she couldn't afford it, Wal-Mart & the police officers were callous about this, in my eyes. Just one empathetic official among those involved in her arrest could have interceded by offering to buy her that Bible -- there are customers who gladly would. They weren't big-ticket items that she took; a Bible, cheese, & socks seem like the barest of necessities, but they were important enough to her that she had to steal them.

[liberal N proud]

2. Thou shalt not what?

[Leme]

3. I admit it, I often adjust my thinking

when it involves someone stealing food. Stealing a book, the Bible, seems unnecessary, because my guess is that Bibles are more readily available than food, and a used Bible does not affect content.

[demigoddess]

4. seems ironic

when you consider that Walmart is taking the food out of the mouths of so many of its workers.