In short, Richardson ate the hot dog while he was shopping, paid for his $28 worth of groceries, then walked out of the store without paying for his 99-cent hot dog.
At that point the jig was up–store employees followed him to the parking lot and held him there until police showed up and arrested him. This despite what nearly every report describes as Richardson’s insistence that he simply forgot he ate the thing, and his willingness to pay the dollar for the hot dog right then and there.
Instead, he was arrested by the cops and charged with shoplifting by Cheney Municipal Prosecutor Julie McKay.
Eventually McKay offered Richardson a plea deal that would have dismissed the shoplifting charge if he’d pay the original $.99 for the dog, plus a $200 penalty for stealing it.
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It’s amazing that social network surfers are still falling for lame scams even after years of warnings about the dangers. Facebook has a new one making the rounds relying on member’s curiosity to help spread the scam by doing a copy and paste into their browser window. Copy and Paste… Really?
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A blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live – is to go on sale to the general public later this year.
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As if we weren’t getting robbed at the pump by gas prices, now you can really get robbed at the pump. Ugh, I hate scumbag crooks like this.
A pair of high-tech bandits were able to steal more than 3,600 credit card numbers with six electronic devices — known as “skimmers” — planted at five gas stations in Mountain View and Los Altos, according to the county district attorney.
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The US revealed its “International Strategy for Cyberspace” (PDF) yesterday. It’s mostly blather about how terrific “cyberspace” is, but it gets more specific on a few key issues like national defense. Could our next war start because of a hack? The government says it’s possible.
“States have an inherent right to self-defense that may be triggered by certain aggressive acts in cyberspace,” says the policy. Indeed, such aggressive acts might compel a country like the US to act even when the hacking is targeted at an allied country.
“Certain hostile acts conducted through cyberspace could compel actions under the commitments we have with our military treaty partners,” says the document. “When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would any other threat to our country.”
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