...or so Whitney Houston warbled all those years ago. Yeah right.
{...}Authorities said that a 17-year-old girl in a hot-pink sweatshirt approached Smith outside of a Winn-Dixie supermarket at Hypoluxo and Jog roads in Boynton Beach Wednesday evening and asked the girl what her favorite cookies were. Police told WPBF that, while Smith was telling the teen about her favorite Cinna-Spins, the teen snatched an envelope containing about $167 off of Smith's table, hopped into another teen's car and drove away. sponsorSmith told WPBF that she turned to her mother in tears, saying, "Mommy! That girl took all my money!"
Authorities said they caught up with the 17-year-old girl Thursday and pulled her out of class at Park Vista High School, where she allegedly confessed to the crime, WPBF reported. Investigators said the girl's female accomplice, another a Park Vista student, also confessed.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said that the case has been handed over to the State Attorney's Office to determine if charges will be filed against the teens.
Smith's mother, Charlene Rubenstrunk, told WPBF that the girls returned to the store Thursday to taunt her daughter.
"They are within 10 feet of the same kid they just robbed last night and there is nothing anybody can do about it. I find that offensive," Rubenstrunk said.
The girls, whose names are not being released because they are minors, told WPBF that they were not remorseful for the crime, and that they did it because they "needed 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," one of the girls told WPBF.
The other girl told WPBF that she was upset because police found them.
"I'm not sorry, I'm just pissed that I got caught," the girl said."
You think that's offensive? Check out the video. Pretty much the same as the article, but chock-a-block full of attitude.
I thought it was bad enough that they'd said what they did, but the way they said it, the way they apparently thought it was cool to be on tee vee is even more offensive.
You needed money, so the best way to go about that is to steal from a freakin' girl scout? What the hell?
You know, since I don't have kids, I generally refrain from telling parents how to raise their offspring. But if either of those girls was my kid, well, I'd take a strap to them. Then, when they're incapable of sitting for a few days, I'd let the police arrest them and throw their worthless asses into jail for a few days without bailing them out. Then I'd make them volunteer in a homeless shelter for about a year. To show them what it's really like to need money.
But, I don't have kids, so what do I know?
{Ht: Laura W. over at Ace.}
UPDATE: I just showed this to the husband and his question was, "Do we have someplace to throw little whores like that other than Vegas?"
Posted by Kathy at February 3, 2008 12:01 PM | TrackBack