Thieves prey on OWS crowd
The New York Post reports that the Occupy Wall Street crowd are eating their own;
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
Who could have imagined that calling together people from across the country to demand other people’s property and the fruits of other people’s labors would have attracted thieves?
Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.
What’s that old saw about lying down with dogs? Maybe after it’s all oer with the hippies will come to realize why I hate hippies.
Category: I hate hippies, Occupy
Only in America could a person claim to be a victim of the upper class, while squatting in a public park with their five thousand dollar laptop. I could pay rent for almost an entire year with what this chick paid for her computer.
Note to “Nan” : call the cops on your sheepish loss and see justice in action (might be “inaction”). Act the fool, get the treatment.
Again this is the highlight of their pathetic young lives. Somewhat sad.
Kumbaya motherfuckers!
Color me surprised. Now correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the whole point of this protest to deny the rich their riches and make sure the “deserving”. In essence isn’t theivery EXACTLY what this protest about?
I agree with what Scott said.
She’s lucky someone just stole it from her, and didn’t try to beat her with it, first.
Ya know, I am kind of sorry to hear about this. It sucks having someone steal your property no matter what your political leanings. Personally, I am surprised that it took this long to start happening.
Bwaaaaahahahahaha! I think they need to have the police come in and do a non-discriminant search of EVERY TENT, SLEEPING BAG, BEDROLL in the damned park.
Or not, because that would expose the cops to who knows what disease, danger from bad needles, used/contaminated condoms, etc.
The “thieves” are just part of the #OccupyOWS movement, taking what’s due to them. They are the 99%.
Another ditto of what Scott said. These clowns haven’t the first foggiest clue of what poverty means.
When they see what passes for “average” in some places on this planet, then they can bitch, but I’ll go out on a limb and say they probably would count their blessings.
WTF could an 18 year old know, to qualify as a “legal team volunteer”? And, a cooking and legal team volunteer?
Does “legal team” volunteer mean she only does lawyers? Or, that she runs out and yells at the cops?
As for the missing laptop and money, isn’t that just redistribution of wealth? Is that not what they’re out there for?
At 18 with a $5k laptop you can beat she damn sure didn’t pay for that either. Daddy probably did.
I bet somebody’s never worked a day in her life and has had everything handed to her.
Legal team volunteer is a fancy way of saying the person who calls daddy for bail money when they get hauled off by da po-po.
Am I the only one who thought it was funny that Jessie Jackson was mentioned in the article.
“volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said”. Translated, we were stoned out of our fucking minds, and didn’t see or hear nothin’, man…
And, what’s with “hundreds” of protesters? I thought they were legion, with multitudes approaching the thousands…. Or, is it the same maggot-infested, dope smoking few hundred hippie drop outs it always is?
Did not some of these folk think about posting a Sentry? hmmm Shifts’? oh yea forgot they already know about it. Whoopss guess not.
She was lucky, a girl in Cleveland lost more than a computer.
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/occupy-cleveland-protester-alleges-she-was-raped/
If my son asks for a $5500 laptop to do high school work on when he’s 18, he’ll be told quickly to get bent. He gets the $300 Toshiba or $300 toward the $5500 Apple and he can figure out how to get the other $5200. I have a feeling that some little girl’s mommy and daddy have never had the balls to tell her “no” and now she’s bitching about having a computer stolen while attending a protest instead of being in classes or at a job.
Interesting comments after the article in #15. I wonder if the history of the “occupywallstreet.org” is true?
Well, it is true, at least partially, adbusters did register the domain name, occupy etc. Network solutions doesn’t trace the registration of the domain name far enough back. The name was registered by Kallie Lasn, in Vancouver, B.C. using her e-mail domains@adbusters.org.
So, the flea baggers aren’t even home-grown flea baggers, they’re imported.
I’m trying to figure out how you spend $5500 on even an Apple laptop.