Ravenwood - 09/05/06 06:00 AM
Since when did taking $15 worth of produce from a garbage can become a felony. Two members of the Rainbow Family were given 6 months in jail for stealing food from a dumpster behind a grocery store. They had faced felony charges.
Charle and Siller were charged with felony second-degree burglary and misdemeanor theft. As part of a plea agreement reached with Assistant District Attorney Kerry St. James, the men agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor trespass in exchange for having the felony they were facing dismissed.Now I've only ever heard of Steamboat Springs as a ski resort town. It's a little early for skiing, but it could just be that the local bourgeoisie don't want long haired maggot infested hippies digging through the trash.
Then again, there's this:
Don Wirtshafter, an attorney in Ohio who represented many of the Rainbow Family members who were charged with crimes during the gathering in Routt County. . .As much as I too hate long-haired maggot-infested, no-good commie pinko peaceniks, digging through the trash should never be a felony. If so the jails would be filled with tabloid journalists.
Cross posted at Dumb Criminals.
Category: Dumb Criminals
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That's what I like about you, Ravenwood - your deep compassion for those different from ourselves! :-)
Posted by: Kevin Baker at September 5, 2006 11:05 AMThat's funny, haven't the courts ruled that the cops can dig through your trash without a warrant because you no longer own it...
Posted by: markm at September 5, 2006 1:37 PMI live fairly close to where this took place (close enough that we had to deal with a bunch of these hippies ourselves) and the local papers ran a more thorough report. It seems that the two involved broke into a locked enclosure that contained said garbage containers making the original charge "breaking and entering". The law in the area was also looking to "make examples" of the law breakers during this event in the hopes of not having them come back. 10,000 hippies do a lot of damage to the forrest in the course of a week.
Posted by: Brass at September 9, 2006 5:39 PMI love dumpsters. The computer I'm typing on came out of one. I would not break into something locked to get access though.
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