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    Weepy college frosh nabbed for high-tech price-switch scheme

    I Pod for 5 bucks

    DECEMBER 2--Jonathan Baldino is no master criminal. The 19-year-old University of Colorado freshman just got arrested for a harebrained scheme in which he replaced the bar codes on expensive electronic items at Target with homemade bar codes carrying rock-bottom prices, according to the below Boulder Police Department arrest affidavit. Baldino's swapping spree ended Wednesday when he tried to buy a $149.99 iPod speaker system that carried a phony bar code with a $4.99 pricetag.

    Baldino was detained by store security and turned over to cops, who hit the electrical engineering student with a felony forgery rap and two misdemeanor theft counts (he allegedly bilked Target out of $370). In a marvelous police statement, Baldino, pictured at right in a Boulder County Sheriff's Office booking photo, wrote, "I am a 19 year old boy who has never really been in trouble for anything in my life...I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN & I am once more terribly sorry! I have never even stolen a candy bar from a 7-eleven before!!! Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please! I am scared half to death." In a follow-up statement, Baldino added, "I am extremely sad now, & I just want to go to bed. Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight.


    what a plonker !
    Lifes a *****, and then you marry one.

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    Toss his @rse in a deep hole for a few months,, that'll learn the whiney crybaby

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    Quote Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
    Toss his @rse in a deep hole for a few months,, that'll learn the whiney crybaby


    The death penalty would learn 'em as well!

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    And his parents too

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    The problem was that he was thinking too small.
    Now, if he'd screwed around with some electronic voting machines to record phony votes he'd be the prez by now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gringo
    I Pod for 5 bucks

    "I am a 19 year old boy who has never really been in trouble for anything in my life...I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN & I am once more terribly sorry! I have never even stolen a candy bar from a 7-eleven before!!! Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please! I am scared half to death." In a follow-up statement, Baldino added, "I am extremely sad now, & I just want to go to bed. Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight.


    what a plonker !
    Errr, There is 19 year old MEN fighting in Iraq. I suggest this BOY be given a choice. Go to Iraq, or go to jail.

    I figger jail would look nice and cozy to him if he was given my choices.

    WIMP!!!

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    Thats a nice choice. I'm sure the wimpering coward would choose jail.

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    There actually used to be a program where in some cases, depending on the crime the judge could offer a young man that choice.

    The military decided it no longer would take people with a criminal record and the "enlist or jail" choice became a non factor.

    I'd say he wouldn't make it in the military anyway since at the age of 19 he still considers himself a BOY!

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    This story should be featured on the Larry King show ................ & if he gets back from iraq on the right side of a zip up baggy ......... He should be made to go & be interviewed by Larry

    Then shot

    His family shot

    The house burned to the ground

    his county Nuked


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    Quote Originally Posted by j.m@talk
    This story should be featured on the Larry King show ................ & if he gets back from iraq on the right side of a zip up baggy ......... He should be made to go & be interviewed by Larry

    Then shot

    His family shot

    The house burned to the ground

    his county Nuked
    And then he should be slapped around for crying like a little wuss for getting caught stealing. Little thief, I hopes they stick him in jail with a big mean homo rapist. That'll learn him not to switch price fingys.

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