Another girl scout gets robbed of cookie money
Categories: Newborns, Kids 8-11, Teens & tweens, Health & safety
So we've all learned that we don't go around the neighborhood selling cookies without an adult, right girls? In fact, let's all just set up a table outside the local grocery store and sell cookies with mom right there. That'll be perfectly safe, right? Actually, it turns out it isn't, really. At least not in Florida.Nine-year-old Gracie Smith was doing just that -- selling cookies outside a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Southeastern Florida -- when a teenage girl came up and began talking to her. Moments later, the teen reached over and grabbed an envelope with more than $150 of cookie money. She then ran off, jumped into a car with another teen, and took off.
The two miscreants apparently did it for the money. "We went through all that effort to get it, we got all these charges and we had to give the money back. I'm kind of pissed," said one. The other one said she wasn't sorry, just angry that they got caught. Luckily, however, they did get caught and will hopefully face some stiff punishment.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Amanda 2-04-2008 @ 9:27AM
see, I wouldn't take the money I would take all the thin mints!!!!
Okay, that wasn't funny. I sure hope those teens have to do some counseling. they are obviously just beginning their careers.
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Willow7748 2-04-2008 @ 4:37PM
Wow. his iskind of sad. A teen robbing money from an innocent girl scout? Then again, I am also a scout and I would always be careful with my money.
Kitty 2-04-2008 @ 3:04PM
Someone's going to rot in hell
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J 2-04-2008 @ 3:07PM
THERE IS NO BIGGER LOSER THAN ONE WHO WOULD RIP OFF A GIRL SCOUT...
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bmit70 2-04-2008 @ 3:12PM
What is this world coming to?????????
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bruno 2-04-2008 @ 3:13PM
ok, so now is the time to team up with the NRA and start handing out guns to these scouts.. they need to protect themselves also!
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Laura 2-04-2008 @ 3:16PM
These teens show no remorse and no understanding of right vs wrong. They need to be punished in a way they'll understand, because obviously conscience isn't an issue for them. What arrogance!!!
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msr 2-04-2008 @ 3:22PM
we have not sold here in ohio yet i cant believe theses stories
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Rod Donovan 2-04-2008 @ 3:31PM
I have always been a backer of canning. It seems to work so well in Cambodia. You get caught, you get wacked, then you always thing twice if not three times before stealing. Canning, those bamboo poles with the split ends really are a good deterrent.
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Tricia 2-04-2008 @ 3:31PM
Unbelievable...only in South Florida. Which is exactly where I live. South Florida is becoming a cesspool.
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boo 2-04-2008 @ 3:31PM
i luv the girl scout cookies. they are all great. i dont see why they wanted to steal the money, i would think they would go 4 the cookies
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Tricia 2-04-2008 @ 3:31PM
and LOL to the thin mints comment! YUM and those peanut butter ones...tagalogs? SUPER YUM
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nightowl 2-04-2008 @ 3:32PM
Hey!! Times are tight. Drug money is hard to come by. It's where you find it. The girl scout is lucky; there could have been some nookie snatchers working the area rather than money snatchers.
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Donna 2-04-2008 @ 3:34PM
What is this world coming to. Get a job like the rest of us's have...........
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Society has let it happen 2-04-2008 @ 6:48PM
It took this to ask that? While it is definitely on the list, it's not at the top of my list of items that have me asking that question. Equally horrible, but no where near the devastation and possible outcomes of the things towards the top of it. I'm not surprised that it has occurred, and others shouldn't be either. It is the way of the world -the one we have allowed to be created. It will be this way until responsibility is accepted, and blame ceases. Only then, will positive changes come.
woleary717 2-04-2008 @ 3:38PM
I bet you I know that these parasitic, non-Christian acting perps were not of Caucasian geneology. When will their behavior ever become civilized ?
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eavieda 2-04-2008 @ 4:15PM
You are an idot for that comment. You should that stealing is part of white peoples history. They are the biggest thieves ever! Have you forgotten slavery. Black people didn't get to America all by themselves!!! If people of color are thieves they learned it best.
jocdat 2-04-2008 @ 4:20PM
Funny...I'm a white male and when reading it, I immediately thought of 2 white trash girls who took the money. Guess that makes me a racist of my own kind.
jocdat 2-04-2008 @ 4:34PM
eavieda...as for you, that comment was just as idiotic as the original poster. Thievery and slavery have been around since the dawn of time, as well as prostitution and murder. Peoples' hunger is the driving force to do evil, their concious have no regards for the victims in big and small crimes. They act out to sastify their wants and desires while neglecting their own self-worth and character. The girls were pissed because they were caught which I laughed immediately. These girls are freakin' dumb to think that they deserve the money!! REAL DUMB CRIMINALS. Forget caning, throwing them in a slammer, etc. These girls need to be subjected to daily ridicule for 10 years or until they both literally die of embarrassment.
annoyed 2-04-2008 @ 5:05PM
I never comment on these things especially when it's an ignorant, uninformed comment but I had to show this loser that it was indeed persons of the "Caucasian geneology"
Check out the link and see it for yourself:
http://www.wpbf.com/news/15194935/detail.html