Shoplifter forgets son!
Categories: Teens & tweens, Just for dads, Places to go, Health & safety, Weird but true
Gee, how embarrassing. You go in for one thing, leave without another, and it turns out to be your child. Oh, and you were too busy shoplifting to remember to get him on the way out!
A shoplifter in Amsterdam five-fingering a pack of meat accidentally left his twelve-year-old son in the supermarket he stole from. The thief was, naturally, traced because of his son. When contacted by authorities he refused to claim his son and asked that they call the child's mother instead.
Eventually, the shoplifter did turn himself in. Not only was he setting a bad example for his child, but my guess is that in addition to shoplifting charges he could face abandonment, endangering a child and a bunch of other things too.
Stupid, stupid, stupid...yet, true, true, true. Thankfully the son wasn't charged as an accomplice or anything.
Supermarket pic by hellochris.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 11)
Meagan 3-20-2008 @ 9:14PM
If the kid is twelve I'm not sure you could really claim he was endangered... still, pretty stupid.
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Carolyn 3-21-2008 @ 4:28PM
Tell the parents of 12-year-olds who have been abducted and murdered that the kids were not "endangered" because they were 12.
Meagan 3-21-2008 @ 5:02PM
Yeah that's a reasonable argument... adults get kidnapped and murdered too... all the time. That doesn't mean they're "endangered" whenever they're alone. I'm not saying a twelve year old can fend for himself in general but leaving him alone at a public place is not endangerment any more than it is when parents drop their preteens off at the mall. I don't know about Amsterdam but in America that's not illegal. It's part of learning independence and how to be an adult... which is what a twelve-year-old should be starting to learn. The problem with this story wasn't that the kid was left alone at a grocery store, it's that a parent was committing a crime in the presence of his child. Though the fact that he actually forgot his son indicates all sorts of other issues.
spdbmp 3-22-2008 @ 9:26AM
I don't know, as I wasn't there, but if the man was stealing food as opposed to an iPod or something, then perhaps he has just reached his limit ... it seems to me that he is pretty new at the whole thing, otherwise he would not have left his child behind. I'm not making excuses (for ANYBODY), but I bet there is more to this story than what was reported.
missy 3-21-2008 @ 2:06PM
Of course it can be abandonment, but thankfully the boy was 12 and knew how to get help. What a dispicable thing to do to your own son.
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kirsten1269 3-21-2008 @ 2:20PM
he better hope he gets to go to jail - cuz if I was his wife I'd kill him!
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andy 3-21-2008 @ 2:21PM
....str8 people have done a wonderful job of screwing up marriage and raising children. So much for the sanctity of marriage and having children.
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jody 3-21-2008 @ 3:45PM
blame your ownstr8t parents for your own sexual depravity ...while I dont condone what this fella did...mybe he truly was trying to feed his family? Afterall he stole meat....not cigarettes or the like.
Di 3-21-2008 @ 4:06PM
Who said he was straight? Because he was married? Ha! You know how many people that are gay get married to appear straight or have kids? Even the politicians in the news the past few years have done that. You don't know that he's straight!
escout12 3-21-2008 @ 4:23PM
shut up teahan. staight people don't screw up marriages and parenting, stupid people do. heck, criminals do. and that kid is very smart to go get help. not only was he found and safe, he exposed what a dumb, irresponsible criminal/person his father is. just because he's straight doesn't mean he will screw up his marriage/life. gay people are married too. those are called "closet cases." so SHUT UP, TEAHAN.
Sandy 3-21-2008 @ 2:27PM
Andy, are you kidding me? This is not a typical parent. I am a straight parent and I am not screwing up my kids...I would NEVER do something so inconceivable!
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Denice 3-22-2008 @ 12:36AM
WOW! This is like a game of "telephone" The story is way off track. First, The reply to "str8" was referring to him, not his sex gender, also, There is a diff btween droppin ur kid off for a stroll at the mall or abandoning him at the store, as he prob had no clue what the He-- was going on! Last of all, for the person that said, " I would never..." NEVER say Never!
krisc 3-21-2008 @ 2:30PM
ya, its straight peoples fault, Andy, Helen degeneres should show him how to be a man!
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LoLa 3-21-2008 @ 8:44PM
DUDE its Ellen DeGeneres if your going to insult someone get it right!!!
www.littlebaron.com 3-21-2008 @ 2:35PM
This is very bad ! God is always looking at us from above and we should always be as honest as we can.
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Eric 3-21-2008 @ 9:08PM
I'm quite sorry that we can not all hold ourselves up to your standards. We are UNWORTHY to lick the dirt from your feet! Let me prostrate myself in unowrthiness before your holy perfection!!!
GET A LIFE!!!
no1 is perfect, not even YOU, and just b/c YOU think god is watching you doesnt mean you have to bring it into this situation, because it DOESNT FIT!!! it HAS NO PLACE HERE!!!! get off your high horse, and realize that you are not perfect, therefore you should not try to demean others, SHUT UP YOU STUPID ZEALOT!!!
sam 3-21-2008 @ 2:38PM
You have to get a license to drive but anyone can pop kids out like a PEZ dispenser...sheesh
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Annie Banannie 3-21-2008 @ 7:16PM
hahahahaha... THAT'S A GOOD ONE! You are right!
Cynthia 3-21-2008 @ 2:40PM
Although this idiot is obviously NOT a whiz at parenting, using his stupidity to take a potshot at all str8 parents is unfair! Not all str8 parents are as stupid as this guy! And all str8 people should not be blamed for the state of marriage and parenthood today! I'm one of those str8 people who believe that marriage and parenthood should NOT be limited to str8 people. So, Andy, before you make a blanket judgement call, consider that you may be including people who are on your side.
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erin 3-22-2008 @ 3:40AM
am i the only person that is wondering where the hell that str8 (really? its straight, or more precisely, heterosexual) argument came from? im surprised so many people are even responding seriously to such a ridiculously irrelevant statement....