Ten Commandments? Wait, I Meant Ten Suggestions.
The City of Grand Junction, Colorado, and it’s Mayor, Reford Theobald, spent $64,000 of taxpayer money in 2001 to erect a “Cornerstone of Law and Liberty” plaza in front of city hall so they could display a monument of the Ten Commandments.
Reford Theobald led the fight to keep the Ten Commandments on city property.
So, guess who got caught breaking one of the Big Ten?
Yep.
Reford Theobold, 61, was ticketed at about noon on Friday on suspicion of theft by shoplifting after an employee of Cabela’s observed Theobold take several “Big Hunk” candy bars, hide them in a file folder and walk past registers without paying, an officer wrote in the summons.
The police say that “he was embarrassed and that he’d acted “stupid.”
No. Not stupid. It’s not a sin to be stupid.
I wonder how many other commandments he broke that day? It’s gonna be a heyday for unsolved murders and disrespecting parents.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Before it’s over with I bet he’ll at least bear false witness and take the lord’s name in vain when he swears to tell the truth.
1Why are we continuously surprised by the Republican disconnect with their professed moral values. Their only real words to live by are, “Do unto others before they do unto you.”
2The definition of “commandment” gets ’em every time, eh? Of course, a sovereign citizen is above all that commanding stuff too. Even by G*d.
3If you are going to steal, at least make it worthwhile. Banks come to mind.
4To his friends he is an upstanding man of gawd. To the world at large he is a petty thief.
5Was it filed properly under “H” ?
6Paul @#4: I remember seeing a movie with James Cagney where he told another character “Never Steal Anything Small”, in song, no less!
I forget where I saw this: “You can steal more with a briefcase than with a handgun”, but a lot of guys on Wall Street seem to have taken that to heart.
7Former council member,too,still yet.
8Stealing candy bars is pretty pathetic if your age has more than one digit. And I’m sure the candy bars were the only Big Hunks in the immediate vicinity.
Maybe the occasional Democrat gets caught doing stuff, but they’re not such holier-than-thou pontificators.
9Annabelle’s Big Hunk is my favorite candy bar. They’re $1.00 most places.
10I know he was so surprised that he found Big Hunks (not available everywhere) that it was a reflex action to take them. “oh look, BIG HUNKS I’m so excited!” I’m sure that was his thinking…..yes, they are that good.
If only there were more 10 Commandments! Wallet sized 10 Commandments! Then, a good guy with Commandments could have handed his copy to the bad guy (without the portable version) before he grabbed those candy bars, and prevented this situation from ever occurring.
11This guy was in need of a sugar high! Pathetic!
12and on top of that…the anti-pan handling law that GJ had in effect, was thrown out by SCOTUS…as panhandling is protected speech…I really don’t feel sorry for scumbags….
13Having lived in Grand Junction,I can attest to the fact that very few places there sell Big Hunk candy bars (One usually finds them at the Kum & Go gas stations..And yep,that’s really what they’re named). So,one must stock up where and when they can,as I used to. Since I am a life long registered Democrat,I have always payed for mine with money I earn by working an actual job. All joking aside,Junction (as it’s referred to by the locals) is a very beautiful place,and one of the favorite places I have lived in. But,it is a red town,in a red county,and conservatives seem to be really good about breaking the rules/laws that they expect the rest of us to follow/live by.
14They know the Commandments. It’s the “thou shall not” part they forget.
15I’m just surprised that he didn’t hide the “big hunks” in the front of his pants…
16I guess I’d better go run the vacuum before the grandbaBy gets here. You think maybe that guy drove the local five and dime crazy when he was a kid?
17I didn’t even know that they still make Big Hunks. They’re pretty good – but not worth venturing into Cabela’s.
18Somebody living around Grand Junction should take a roll of transparent shipping tape and plaster a Big Hunk bar onto that Ten Commandments monument, right next to the “Thou Shalt Not Steal” line.
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