It also shows he has no hygiene whatsoever. YUCK!
No, they’re not. Which is why the punishments are different: $1 gets expulsion, $1,000,000 gets expulsion and a significant jail term.
What’s the problem?
Apathy I was minding my own business, just witnessed both events. Had the lady who worked there not said something would I have instead? Damn right.
It isn’t about milk, or $1.95 plus tax, it’s about being a nasty, dirty fucker who directly contributes to the high prices I have to pay. That makes it my business.
Monty, you’re gonna love this. I graduated from UCD in 1985. If you go by KDVS, there may be some folks there that still have rumors of my existence. Hell, you can probably find some of my artifacts laying around.
Too cool, China Guy!
Just a quick clarrification: Did he pour milk into his coffee, take a sip of the milk, and put it back, or take a sip of his coffee to check he used an appropriate amount of milk, and then put the milk back?
I still think having him arrested for something like that is ridiculous. I worked at Blockbuster a few years back, and oft times, if we caught a kid trying to walk out with a game or something, we would just confiscate it and tell them not to come back. If it was a lot of things, we would then call a cop over, but for something as trivial as a small carton of milk, a simple public embarrasment is punishment enough. If he then became unrulely and started making a big scene and screaming, then get teh police involved, but if he just curses under his breadth, says “This is fucking bullshit” and pays and leaves after you confront him, that’s justice enough.
Elvis, he sipped from the milk carton.
And I agree that, overall, this is not an earth shattering event. However, the university does have an honor code which specifically prohibits stealing. And it’s up to the store owner whether to press charges, which she decided to do. I guess after a certain amount of theft the owner gets tired of being nice or “letting it go.” Maybe he just got nailed on the wrong day, but under no circumstances to I disagree with the store’s reaction.
For me, the act that turned it into a crime was putting it back. If he’d opened a carton of milk because the cream-things were gone, poured some in his coffee, and left the open milk container for the next coffee-drinker to make use of, I suspect the cafeteria people might have been annoyed but would not have thought of it as theft.
Taking the sip from the carton was incredibly selfish and piggy, and would have gotten him cussed out and possibly written up for violating the university’s public health rules, but it’s when he returned it to the fridge as if it were a saleworthy unopened carton that his actions become those of a person knowingly doing something wrong and trying to deceive, and therefore criminal.
Elvis, I don’t think he was arrested, unless the campus police reported to law enforcement. I may be wrong, but I don’t think campus police have arrest powers.
Also, if you stop someone from taking a game, you still have the game and it can be sold. The milk was now unsalable. The theft was a fait accompli. Plus, sometimes an example needs to be made, and this jerk may have been unlucky enough to be the example. Best way to avoid being the example? Don’t be a jerk. (not directed at you, Elvis, in any way, shape or form; only at the milk-drinking putz)
D-Odds: The campus police on the University of California system are law enforcement. They’re sworn police officers. Now, at the community college I attended, the campus coppers aren’t cops, but rather they’re security guards.
What Monty said. My sister’s ex is a retired NIU campus cop.
jarbabyj said:
And another thing:
What’s with all the wuss coffee drinkers of the world. BLACK OR NOTHIN’ BITCHES.
Take it like a man.
I’m swooning over this.
Just curious - since Lunch Lady Doris was standing “less than ten fucking feet” away, and they were out of cream, wouldn’t her time have been better spent RE-STOCKING THE FUCKING CREAM, rather than over-reacting and calling the cops because someone took a drink out of the milk carton?
The coffee where i work sucks so much, that the decaf they give to the residents, is better than what is in the breakroom.
It stands to reason that I drink a lot of soda pop while i work.
Maybe she was busy helping a customer and/or was unaware that they were out of creme for the coffee. For that matter she could’ve been working by herself because a coworker called out on her. You can be a hard worker and miss the occasional details if things are busy enough, but someone stealing as blatently as in the OP is hard not to notice. Don’t kirk off about her behavior unless you know what the situation is.
As for overreacting, theft is theft. Regardless of whether or not it’s a carton of milk on one million dollars. I work in a grocery store and see this sort of thing all the time and I would estimate that a sizable chunk of loss of profit due to theft comes from people doing exactly what this guy did. The “pay for it and don’t come back” didn’t work, so the company started getting a little harder. And for the people who are worried about this ruining his career, not likely. I don’t know what the laws are like in the state where this occured, but I imagine that unless this guy has a previous record he’ll just get a PBJ, and if he keeps his nose clean for a year or so it’ll be wiped off his record. If his record isn’t clean then he’s an idiot who’s getting what he deserved.
Well, then he’ll really need the milk! 
Seriously, what’s a PBJ, in this context?
I see. Thank you!
I’da started screaming “thief” at the top of my lungs. Itb woulda been funny.
Being a selfish bastard seems to be more and more commonplace these days. I’m kind of glad one finally “got their’s” like they all deserve.
(I just hope it isn’t me next time, but, really, I do try… most of the time.)
This is the same type of person that on the road ZOOMS around you (I’m not talking about just changing lanes, we all change lanes from time to time), I mean really zooms around in front of you only to be turning left. Sure, sometimes we forget where we are and to change lanes, and yes, everyone has to turn left sometime, but it’s the (perceived) attitude of “I’m so much more important than you” that really gets to me.
If I had been behind that guy, I probably would’ve said, “hey! You gonna buy that?” But, I’m not sad that he got even more than just an embarrassing confrontation. TOOK A SIP? PUT IT BACK? Selfish moron bastard, mutter mutter, mutter…