Evil, Evil Person Steals $800 From Cookie-Selling Girl Scouts
The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska.
According to the Juneau Empire, the girls and their troop leader were just about finished with a four hour cookie shift when "a man in a ski mask and goggles allegedly nabbed a cash box around 5:50 p.m. and fled through the parking lot."
The troop leader tried chasing the man, but he got away. Apparently someone was quick enough to jot down the license plate of the car, but the Juneau police have yet to comment on the status of the cookie investigation.
Linda Sylvester, program and membership coordinator for the Tongass Alaska Girl Scout Council, said she has never heard of a similar incident involving the annual fundraising event. Last year, someone purchased cookies with a counterfeit $50 bill, and Sylvester said she heard a story of someone using a fraudulent check in Washington.
"Those were the most egregious things that I'd ever heard of, but nobody has robbed a Girl Scout troop," Sylvester said. "That's really bad karma."
It's tough being a Girl Scout in an economic meltdown.
Masked man nabs $800 from Girl Scouts [Juneau Empire]
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Would they get a badge for that?
People are messed up. What the hell :(
At first I thought he had stolen the cookies. But stealing the money - that's even worse.
I tell you what robbery is... selling a box of 10 cookies for $4.
The universe finally finds the perfect job for Sarah Palin and she fails to appear when needed.
"Sylv-ester". For some reason, I imagine this isn't a typo and people from Juneau have last names like this.
Also... I wonder if the police had a hard time believing they had $800 dollars of cookie sales in that box.
Damn cookie monsters!
The really sad thing is that whomever stole the money was probably wanting to pay his mortgage or feed his family...
@philmin: Sometimes hyphens happen when people copy and paste stories to the web and get lazy about checking for these things.
Quote "The really sad thing is that whomever stole the money was probably wanting to pay his mortgage or feed his family..."
If by "mortgage" you mean "dealer" and if by "family" you mean "Meth addiction" then yes, I agree with you.
@Costner: Purchasing Girl Scout cookies just a donation to a worthy cause. Why would that upset you?
$4 for cookies is stealing...200 boxes of cookies, $800...ridiculous.
What a piece of scum to steal from little girls. I hope when he gets caught the entire scout troop gets to beat him within an inch of his life.
@Costner: Right. And you're absolutely forced to buy them, right? It's not like they're the only cookies in town.
Apparently, even with the ski mask, the Juneau police were able to get a character sketch of the guy:
sorry, couldn't resist
are those beggars still out there trying to hawk their cookies? They are worse than those Salvation Army bums. Everyone's got their hand out it seems.
BlondeGrlz
"The universe finally finds the perfect job for Sarah Palin and she fails to appear when needed."
You have me laughing so hard I can't even reply to your post properly...
Serves them right, I had girl scouts double charge me for cookies once. Ordered them and then again on delivery, of course I wasn't home when they arrived so I had to pay my roomie back.
I don't think you needed to say "Cookie-Selling", isn't that all the Girl Scouts do?
Is, is robbing them worse than the fact that these little girls are being pimped out to sell a product?
@codepage9: You're right. Those girls in Juneau deserved to have $800 stolen from them because you overpaid about 12 bucks some other girl scouts one time.
Uh, oneliketadow, that's not all the Girl Scouts do. I was a Girl Scout. It is a great organization (not at ALL related to the Boy Scouts, btw) and I have fond memories. We didn't do much cookie selling, actually. LOTS of camping and fun stuff, though.
strathmeyer, what? They aren't being "pimped out" -- perhaps you need to look up the definition of "pimp." They are fundraising.
@Costner: What cookies are you buying? All the boxes are $3.50. While the number of cookies per box varies, they are primarily between 15 and 20.
So there! Get your facts straight TROLL!
Jesus, what have I become? I think I need to get my daughter out of Girl Scouts.
@BlondeGrlz: Maybe Bristol sent Levi to get the cookies, because she's hungry and trying to take care of the baby and the least he can do is rob a cookie stand for her.
@HFC: NO - YOU get your facts straight. The pricing apparently varies per state. Here in IL the cookies are all $4 per box.
I know because I have purchased from one troop member and 2 stalls at the local grocery store.
@philmin: Not really - if they were selling them at the inflated price of $4 per box, that is only 200 boxes. If they had a really good location, like outside a Walmart, they'll sell 200 boxes in a couple of hours.
@Costner: Just give the Girl Scouts $4.00, decline the cookies, and ask for a receipt. Then you will have the satisfaction of having done something good for your fellow Americans, you don't have to question the value of each cookie you swallow, and you can take off the cost as a tax deduction.
Oh, and when the high school band comes around selling almond roca, you have my permission to close the door on them. That stuff looks like cat poop.
I've been trying to clean up the image of the ski mask and its wearers for years. This store undermines years of my hard work.
@strathmeyer: Yes, yes it is, much worse. Of course, I am assuming that by "pimped out" you mean "learning first-hand how our system of capitalism works."
Palin needs to do something to make that $17,000 that she stole from the people of Alaska in order to pay for her kids to fly to events they weren't invited to.
Two teenage girls stole money from Girl Scouts last year. They were caught a few hours later, but had already spent the money on clothes. When asked by the press if they were sorry for robbing little girls, they said they only sorry that they got caught. It's not surprising that the 2 thieving girls were Paris Hilton/The Hills wannabes...
If you steal from Girl Scouts YOU ARE SUPPORTING TERRORISM!
Girl Scouts =/= Hookers.
Why do the media and the girl scouts always accuse someone of intentionally buying their cookies with counterfeit bills? I seriously doubt people are saving up their counterfeit bills to dump on the girl scouts every year. I'm quite sure many of us have unknowingly received, handled, and paid with counterfeit bills at some point, and I'm sure many of us have purchased girl scout cookies. If those two events happen to coincide, that doesn't mean anyone has committed an "egregious" offense.
Given it was Alaska, I am amazed nobody shot the guy dead.