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At first I was with you but I was curious how she used $28,000 worth of gas and I'm kinda not with you anymore. I mean, has is expensive but let's be realistic, no poor person is buying a year's wages on gas over 6 months lol
"All told, the card was used 510 times, and more than 7,400 gallons of gas were pumped for free, the probable cause statement said." The article also says she was letting other people pay her to use her card to get gas - so the gas pumped out free and they paid her a portion of what the gas would have been if they had paid the actual pump. That's actually not the kind of thing I can really defend as just putting the poor people down.
Maybe they should fix their shitty ass software instead of arresting her?
They didn't arrest her. The cops did. If she didn't want to be arrested, she probably shouldn't have stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of gas. She's a thief, plain and simple. We can rail against a justice system that allows the rich to get away with crimes, while also recognizing that this woman is just a thief and there is no need to defend her.
You say thief, I say opportunist
Surely you don't actually believe that the police officers that does the arresting are working a secondary job as software developers?
Surely you don't believe I give a shit - the police work for the capital, and the capital wants to punish her.
The police works for the government. The government operates by laws. The woman clearly, knowingly, and with intent, set out to commit fraud.
No. There's no doubt in my mind that you give shit about what's actually factual. That much is obvious.
While you're right, also still sounds like schemes rich business leaders get a wag of a finger over. So it's not so much about it being too harsh on her, but instead how malicious rich person schemes earn too much leniency.