Another girl scout gets robbed of cookie money

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts)
Feb 3rd 2008 4:03PM

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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2-04-2008 @ 9:27AM

Amanda said...

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.

2-04-2008 @ 4:37PM

Willow7748 said...

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.

2-04-2008 @ 3:04PM

Kitty said...

Someone's going to rot in hell

2-04-2008 @ 3:07PM

J said...

THERE IS NO BIGGER LOSER THAN ONE WHO WOULD RIP OFF A GIRL SCOUT...

2-04-2008 @ 3:13PM

bruno said...

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!

2-04-2008 @ 3:12PM

bmit70 said...

What is this world coming to?????????

2-04-2008 @ 4:22PM

E PARKER said...

WHERE WAS THE ADULT A 9 YEAR OLD BY HERSELF ? NOT MY DAUGHTER

2-04-2008 @ 3:22PM

msr said...

we have not sold here in ohio yet i cant believe theses stories

2-04-2008 @ 3:16PM

Laura said...

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!!!

2-04-2008 @ 3:31PM

Rod Donovan said...

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.

Tricia said...

Unbelievable...only in South Florida. Which is exactly where I live. South Florida is becoming a cesspool.

boo said...

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

and LOL to the thin mints comment! YUM and those peanut butter ones...tagalogs? SUPER YUM

2-04-2008 @ 3:32PM

nightowl said...

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.

2-04-2008 @ 3:34PM

Donna said...

What is this world coming to. Get a job like the rest of us's have...........

2-04-2008 @ 6:48PM

Society has let it happen said...

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.

2-05-2008 @ 1:34PM

GS MOM said...

I has a daughter that is a scout I am in sw florifa and we do not get cookies until next week. Something is not right, ou never have that mush $$$ at a cookie booth.

2-04-2008 @ 3:53PM

JUDY said...

Guess the money was where they coulld get it? What is a 9 yr old doing selling cookies without an adult? This would not have happened if an adult was there to oversee this child.
I don't think kids shoulod be going door to door by themselves either.
There should have been an adult there to protect this child.

2-04-2008 @ 4:25PM

Kerstin said...

If you read the link, it says that she:

Smith told WPBF that she turned to her mother in tears, saying, "Mommy! That girl took all my money!"

She wasn't alone, the mom was probably not concerned since the teenager was asking about the cookies and perhaps didn't look threatening. It also says at the beginning of this article (in context clues) that she wasn't alone.

GS I see these kids raking in hundreds of dollars here at the safeway store. Their parents are there of course and they have hundreds of boxes of cookies. They work all weekend long selling those cookies thats why they make the money.

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