Originally posted by: Millennium
"Authorities said they followed a trail of meat juice to a woman suspected of stealing steak from a neighbor's barbecue.
Calaveras County, California authorities arrested Lindsey Blackledge for allegedly stealing the steak off the outdoor grill when her neighbor wasn't looking.
The call to Calaveras County Sheriff's Department came at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday from a woman who said she only turned away from the grill briefly to find her meal gone.
Authorities didn't have to bring in the blood hounds to solve the case of the missing meat.
"It had been stolen and a trail of meat juice was followed up to the next door apartment," said sheriff's deputy Blain Smith.
The deputies found the partially cooked meat on a bathroom counter in the apartment occupied by Blackledge.
Blackledge was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property and having an outstanding warrant for allegedly stealing stolen property in an unrelated case.
She was being held in Calaveras County jail on $25,000.
The steak never made it back to the grill.
"I doubt if it was returned and I don't think they booked it in evidence," Smith said."
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Why shouldn't it be a felony?
A piece of white trash stole something that did not belong to her. If someone will go as far as stealing the steak you're about it eat, I wonder what else she'd steal?
I agree with the police. People need to learn to respect other people's property. She did not buy the steak, she had no right touching it. She's a piece of garbage that society should dispose of.
Originally posted by: Spac3d
I would have eaten the evidence.
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Why shouldn't it be a felony?
A piece of white trash stole something that did not belong to her. If someone will go as far as stealing the steak you're about it eat, I wonder what else she'd steal?
I agree with the police. People need to learn to respect other people's property. She did not buy the steak, she had no right touching it. She's a piece of garbage that society should dispose of.
Because theft without force or violence, and valued at only a few dollars, are normally misdemeanors.
Originally posted by: Millennium
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Why shouldn't it be a felony?
A piece of white trash stole something that did not belong to her. If someone will go as far as stealing the steak you're about it eat, I wonder what else she'd steal?
I agree with the police. People need to learn to respect other people's property. She did not buy the steak, she had no right touching it. She's a piece of garbage that society should dispose of.
Because theft without force or violence, and valued at only a few dollars, are normally misdemeanors.
It depends on the amount stolen and many other factors. Secondly, she wasn't charged with theft of property. She was charged with receiving stolen property and already had another warrant for the same thing.
