Thank goodness their home

[ALACOWMAN]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/14/3- ... ng.html.... I'd hate for those Chinese folks to serve justice with the outstanding men...

 

[ga.prime]

Everybody knows that everything in China is recorded on CCTV. Except these idiots.

 

[Caustic Burno]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/14/3-ucla-basketball-players-return-to-us-after-being-detained-in-china-for-allegedly-shoplifting.html.... I'd hate for those Chinese folks to serve justice with the outstanding men...

Future pro athlete if the pro’s would go to affrimitve action in the NFL and NBA where the pro teams had to represent the ethnic makeup of America.
All this protest would go away and most of the players could put a cohesive sentence together on national TV.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Bet they would take a knee, if we left their butts over there...

 

[Rafter S]

The link doesn't work for me. Can someone please summarize?

 

[Caustic Burno]

The link doesn't work for me. Can someone please summarize?

Some of elite black college basket ball players got caught shoplifting.
Should have left them in China as a teaching experience.

 

[boondocks]

I seem to remember a bunch of folks on CT having admitted to shoplifting or other idiocy in the teens (or even 20s). A sorority sister of mine in college took clothes from TJ Maxx...From a good family, who got her a good attorney, resulted in a slap on the wrist. Not condoning the act; hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes made so young, just as we all (hopefully) do.

 

[Nesikep]

Wow, Mr T did something wrong?

 

[boondocks]

The link doesn't work for me. Can someone please summarize?

Some of elite black college basket ball players got caught shoplifting.
Should have left them in China as a teaching experience.

CB not sure why their race is relevant here. White kids never shoplift or do anything knuckleheaded in their youth? That would be news to me.Heck, I know a young white boy who, as a teen, along with a friend got into a railway switchbox near their homes and pulled a lever that could have derailed a train. One (then)young man went on to serve a long career in the military; the other is an MD. (One of them is my brother).

 

[Caustic Burno]

The link doesn't work for me. Can someone please summarize?

Some of elite black college basket ball players got caught shoplifting.
Should have left them in China as a teaching experience.

CB not sure why their race is relevant here. White kids never shoplift or do anything knuckleheaded in their youth? That would be news to me.Heck, I know a young white boy who, as a teen, along with a friend got into a railway switchbox near their homes and pulled a lever that could have derailed a train. One (then)young man went on to serve a long career in the military; the other is an MD. (One of them is my brother).

It’s relevant when you look at crime stats on who is committing the majority of offenses.
The elite college basketball player was dripping in sarcasm as well.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I seem to remember a bunch of folks on CT having admitted to shoplifting or other idiocy in the teens (or even 20s). A sorority sister of mine in college took clothes from TJ Maxx...From a good family, who got her a good attorney, resulted in a slap on the wrist. Not condoning the act; hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes made so young, just as we all (hopefully) do.

I agree, I sincerely hope they realize how close they came to some awful consequences and stay on the straight and narrow from here on out.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Wow, Mr T did something wrong?

No, he did the right thing. Too bad he wasn't around in time to save Otto Warmbier.

 

[True Grit Farms]

I seem to remember a bunch of folks on CT having admitted to shoplifting or other idiocy in the teens (or even 20s). A sorority sister of mine in college took clothes from TJ Maxx...From a good family, who got her a good attorney, resulted in a slap on the wrist. Not condoning the act; hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes made so young, just as we all (hopefully) do.

My family would of never got me out of jail much less hire an attorney for stealing. I've done a lot of bad things, but stealing isn't one of them. My pop told me stealing is the worst thing a person can do, and if I ever did he'd beat me till I was blind. I don't know what he meant, but I know he meant it. I have no use for a thief, and feel after three strikes, they deserve a bullet behind the ear.

 

[boondocks]

I seem to remember a bunch of folks on CT having admitted to shoplifting or other idiocy in the teens (or even 20s). A sorority sister of mine in college took clothes from TJ Maxx...From a good family, who got her a good attorney, resulted in a slap on the wrist. Not condoning the act; hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes made so young, just as we all (hopefully) do.

My family would of never got me out of jail much less hire an attorney for stealing. I've done a lot of bad things, but stealing isn't one of them. My pop told me stealing is the worst thing a person can do, and if I ever did he'd beat me till I was blind. I don't know what he meant, but I know he meant it. I have no use for a thief, and feel after three strikes, they deserve a bullet behind the ear.

Care to tell us what some of the bad things were that you got away with?

 

[True Grit Farms]

I seem to remember a bunch of folks on CT having admitted to shoplifting or other idiocy in the teens (or even 20s). A sorority sister of mine in college took clothes from TJ Maxx...From a good family, who got her a good attorney, resulted in a slap on the wrist. Not condoning the act; hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes made so young, just as we all (hopefully) do.

My family would of never got me out of jail much less hire an attorney for stealing. I've done a lot of bad things, but stealing isn't one of them. My pop told me stealing is the worst thing a person can do, and if I ever did he'd beat me till I was blind. I don't know what he meant, but I know he meant it. I have no use for a thief, and feel after three strikes, they deserve a bullet behind the ear.

Care to tell us what some of the bad things were that you got away with?

No I wouldn't want to bore you, and no I didn't get away with them all either.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Stealing isn't always about stealing, it is often a sign of a deeper issue especially when the thief is well off enough to not even need the item he or she stole.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Stealing isn't always about stealing, it is often a sign of a deeper issue especially when the thief is well off enough to not even need the item he or she stole.

Especially if there no consequence to your actions because you can play a sport.
I usually think Grit goes overboard a little in this case I tend to agree.

 

[TexasBred]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/14/3-ucla-basketball-players-return-to-us-after-being-detained-in-china-for-allegedly-shoplifting.html.... I'd hate for those Chinese folks to serve justice with the outstanding men...

Future pro athlete if the pro’s would go to affrimitve action in the NFL and NBA where the pro teams had to represent the ethnic makeup of America.
All this protest would go away and most of the players could put a cohesive sentence together on national TV.

This is not a sentence, let alone a "cohesive sentence". :lol2: :lol:

 

[Caustic Burno]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/14/3-ucla-basketball-players-return-to-us-after-being-detained-in-china-for-allegedly-shoplifting.html.... I'd hate for those Chinese folks to serve justice with the outstanding men...

Future pro athlete if the pro’s would go to affrimitve action in the NFL and NBA where the pro teams had to represent the ethnic makeup of America.
All this protest would go away and most of the players could put a cohesive sentence together on national TV.

I understand where your coming from.

 

[boondocks]

Stealing isn't always about stealing, it is often a sign of a deeper issue especially when the thief is well off enough to not even need the item he or she stole.

Especially if there no consequence to your actions because you can play a sport.
I usually think Grit goes overboard a little in this case I tend to agree.

My neighbor across the street when I was growing up was the most religious person I've ever known. Went to church every day of the week. Yet somehow steaks kept falling in her big purse at the grocery. They'd bust her on it, then let her go because she was a "good church woman" and just made a mistake. Lather rinse repeat. Got to be the local joke. (Maybe she needed a smaller purse). I guess if we're going to call "off with their heads" when people do stupid s__t, the same rules need to apply to a churchgoing white woman as to young black teen athletes.....