For those of you who think punishments are too severe, here's one to sink your teeth into:
Man faces 30-year prison term for stealing doughnut
Farmington, MO (AP) -- A Park Hills man could potentially pay a hefty price to satisfy his sweet tooth.
Scott Masters has been charged with felony second-degree robbery.
He is accused of slipping a 52-cent doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying last December and then pushing away a clerk who tried to stop him.
The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to a strong armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. Given Masters' criminal past, prosecutors could boost that sentence to 30 years to life.
The 41-year-old Masters has been arrested more than a dozen times for crimes ranging from shoplifting to drug possession to torching a car for insurance fraud.
While part of me finds that too stupid to be true (and hence, a crazy punishment given the offense), part of me thinks he's too stupid to ever shape up and should never see the light of day again.
I am the Reaper of Men, The Chaser of Souls, The Weaver of Nightmares, I am The Heart of Darkness. I now, and ever will be, The Purity of Evil.
That must have been one heck of a push he gave the clerk for it to be "strong armed robbery" I thought armed robbery involved an arm of some kind. Unless his actual arm is the arm, in that case that's whacked.
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by Madison » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:59 pm 
I thought armed robbery involved an 
Unless his actual arm is the arm, in that case that's whacked.
