Do we really want to live in a country where the pandemic of entitlement is so severe that people are will to endure this kind of humiliation to ‘save’ two bucks and some change?
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What Price DIGNITY?
July 14, 2026
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Once again I need to point out that just because this one person did this incredibly stupid thing and suffered avoidable consequences doesn’t mean this is increasingly the norm for the rest of the nation. Because of the gargantuan expansion of media information you hear about things like this now whereas 30 years ago you probably would not. People were doing stupid, entitled, idiotic things back then too. It has always been thus you’re just more likely to become aware of it now.
When Rudolph Giuliani came in and had the police arresting fair jumpers, people said why is he going after them when there’s so much other crime in the city? What they didn’t realize is that these people obey no laws so when they arrested a fair jumper, quite often they’d find he was wanted on several other outstanding warrants for more serious crimes.
That’s how Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City Federal Building bomber) got caught too. He didn’t have a valid license plate on his car and got pulled over for that. The trooper saw a gun in his car and being as the officer was aware of the bombing he suspected he might be dealing with more than just a young man with no plates and a .45 on the front seat. That whole case may not have been solved and McVeigh not brought to justice were it not for the fact that McVeigh deemed being as he was breaking very big laws… Read more »
I was buying decking at Home Depot, I don’t want to tell you how many boards, and the cashier range me up for the cost of one board. I looked back at my brother and shook my head. “That’s a mighty good sale,” I said. “Yeah, we’ve got good prices,” she replied. “I’ll bet no one’s gotten a better deal today,” I teased. “Bet it is,” she went on, looking at the next customer impatiently. “It’s like I only got charged for one board.” I kept on, worried I’d lose the ability to have her figure it out on her… Read more »
I worked at a McDonalds when I was in college, one of my very first jobs when I was something like 19 yrs old. A scammer “short-change artist” did a quick change thing on me and, even though I called a manager partway through the process after I realized that I had lost track of what had happened, that didn’t help. My cash drawer came up short, $20 I think, and I was fired from my job. It wasn’t even a matter of them asking me to make up the difference. I was summarily fired.