Cops: Bucs Fans Bought Beer in Used Cups

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=6&u=/ap/20031120/ap_on_fe_st/bucs_used_cups


TAMPA, Fla. - A concessions worker filled used plastic cups with beer and resold them at Sunday's Tampa Bay Buccaneers game and pocketed $1,080 in unreported sales, police said.

John Angelus Keene, 68, was charged with felony grand theft, said Tampa police Detective Bill Todd.

Todd said he observed Keene picking up used cups from tables and refilling them without rinsing them at a Bud Light booth near the south end zone of Raymond James Stadium.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Todd, who works stadium security at Buccaneers games. "Naturally, you think of health issues."

Keene was a volunteer with a military retiree group manning the booth, but Todd did not know the exact name of the group. Aramark Inc., the Philadelphia foodservice company that provides the stadium's concessions, declined to release the name of the organization.

[GOPisEvil]

1. EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

A volunteer with a military retiree group. Nice going Keene!

[underpants]

3. If it was at a NFL game it was probably Coors Light

So they probably couldn't tell the difference.

:bounce:

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. I don't understand how he's charged with Grand Theft?

Recycling old beer cups may be gross, but felony grand theft?

I guess that has to do with the money he pocketed. What's a felony for theft - over $1,000?

[underpants]

5. Not sure but this is clearly the suppression of capitalism

Hey the guy was just trying to make some money, isn't everything okay as long as you make money off of it?

[GOPisEvil]

7. I'm guessing the concessionaire judges beer sales by cups sold.

By resuing the cups, you report a lesser amount of beer sold, and keep the cash. In TX, theft doesn't become a state jail felony until $1500, but I don't know about FL.

[omshanti]

4. Well at least the alcohol killed the microbes.

:)

[Don_G]

6. I Read That

Pocketed over 1,000 and some spare change. I suppose Aramark counts the cups and not the kegs.

[Kusala]

8. well considering how the bushies are sticking it to vets and seniors,

he was probably just saving for his last years.

[fishnfla]

9. Really puts the "yuck" in Yuccaneers

the goobers in the south endzone 'prolly didn't even know the difference. The pack beating their butts on the field left a worse taste in their mouth.

I can see it now, some drunk gets a used cup with lipstick on the rim:

"Hmmmmm, they must want me to put my lips here....."