Phony fire fighter released
CavScoutCoastie sends us a link from Tampa about Robert Spalla, a 23 year-old who was tooling around in a local fire department shirt scamming people out of free food and stuff. But, the prosecutor decided that it wasn’t illegal;
In other words, getting free gift cards and meals isn’t the duty of a firefighter, so the statute does not apply.
Spalla, who has never been a firefighter in the state of Florida, had faced a third-degree felony.
Police said for six months, Spalla got free meals from businesses around Pinellas County when he wore a T-shirt that featured an official fire department logo. Police said he admitted to telling people he was a firefighter.
Spalla denied that, and told the Tampa Bay Times there were “several things that went wrong.” He said he collects shirts, and that around Christmas a friend gave him one from the fire department.
Yeah, well, someone sent me some coffee once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m Juan Valdez.
From MySunCoast;
Police say Spalla represented himself to employees at All Children’s Hospital as a firefighter who has been with the St. Pete Fire Department for the past 5 years.
Hospital employees say he would ask for special privileges, such as food vouchers or gas cards.
Everyone wants the perks of being heroes without eating the shit sandwich heroes have to eat everyday. There’s something seriously wrong with our culture.
Category: Shitbags
“Yeah, well, someone sent me some coffee once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m Juan Valdez.”
Oh brother. Here we go.
Yeah, well, someone sent me ________________ once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m _______________.
Who’s first?
Yeah, well, someone sent me _A_PIECE_OF_TAIL_ once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m _EEYORE_.
Yeah, I had to go there.
Yeah, well, someone sent me a cigar once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m Monica Lewinsky.
*giggle snort*!
Well, someone gave me fencing lessons once, but I don’t go around pretending I’m Inigo Montoya.
Just another way the retards in black robes that infest our legal system are undercutting our country by misinterpreting lying to obtain free goods and services as free speech.
“There’s something seriously wrong with our culture.”
I see it every day up here in the Great NW.
What a turd.
Michigan has a statute that criminalizes “False prestenses with intent to defraud”.
I wonder if Florida has the same, or whether the judge just decided that he knows better than the folks who write the laws.
Given that firefighters are among the few in this country who can enter peoples’ homes without warrants, yeah, impersonating a firefighter is a kinda big deal.
Bad ruling. Or bad law. Or something.
#8 was actually supposed ot be “pretenses”. FFS, or Fat Finger Syndrome.
Food vouchers and gas cards? Why can’t this sorry POS go out and panhandle like a self respecting bum? How hard is it to make a cardboard sign saying “will work for food”?
@11 – He wouldn’t have that sign because of the off chance that someone might put his lazy, lying ass to work. 🙂