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Deerfield Baskin-Robbins caper: Husband turns wife in for takin...

Full story: Chicago Tribune

After learning a surveillance camera had captured his wife grabbing a child's ice cream money in a Deerfield Baskin-Robbins, the husband did what any loving spouse would do under the circumstances.

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quesoclan

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#1
Jun 4, 2009
 
That's good stuff right there...'Hey, I think you're looking for my wife,' ".....lol!!!
DeFence

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#2
Jun 4, 2009
 
How rude and unfeeling of the Trib to print this and humiliate the mom. THree kids in tow? of course she was distracted.
Not buying it

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#3
Jun 4, 2009
 
Take another look at the video.

The woman looks directly at the girls then turns her back to them as she is taking the money so that they can't see what she is doing.

If it was her money, why the look at the girls with the awkward back-turning as she palms the $20?

I don't buy that it was an accident. She knew that that $20 wasn't hers. She's lucky that the cops buy her story.
Reality

Winfield, IL

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#4
Jun 4, 2009
 
Yea, I often mistake some child's $20 bill for my own after I've already paid and received my own change. Yea, sure. Want to buy a bridge.
JJR60616

Chicago, IL

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#5
Jun 4, 2009
 
The Great Criswell predicts: There will be a divorce attorney who will get a new case soon.

"Hey, I think you're looking for my wife" has to be an opening gambit.
Hissyfit

Dayton, OH

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#6
Jun 4, 2009
 
She knew exactly what she was doing. Anyone who would steal from 2 kids like that (in an ice cream shop, no less!) is twisted. She deserves to be embarrassed, at the very least.
thingy

Mukwonago, WI

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Jun 4, 2009
 
I don't get why hubby turned her in.
Did he talk to her first?
Is there more to this story?
As the swirl turns....
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#8
Jun 4, 2009
 
Wow what a head line !!!! What about some focus on parking meter fiasco; crook county taxes, federal aid for pot holes, city hall corruption, broken state finances and the list is endless. It is a good distraction though.
Female Cynic

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Jun 4, 2009
 
Good for the hubby and what a piece of trash the wife is. She should be ashamed of herself. Ignorance is not a defense, but she is. I've shopped with my children and although they can create a distraction, to take a child's money is inexcusable. And if there is a divorce, so what, would you want that thief for a spouse?
a despicable woman

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Jun 4, 2009
 
This woman is despicable. She did not pick up this money by mistake. Sounds like Baskin Robbins doesn't want to lose a regular customer so they are letting her go. The police should charge this woman. The poor kid who lost her $20 has probably lost faith in people too. Throw the book at this despicable woman. Her husband turned her in because he probably knows that she is the type of person who would do something like this.
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Jun 4, 2009
 
Why would the husband need to turn her in if "the case was cracked" by a friend coming forth and outing the woman? That doesn't make any sense.
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Chicago, IL

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#13
Jun 4, 2009
 
again, this story is told from the entirely WRONG vantage point.

the young girl needs to learn a lesson, but that lesson is not that she's "special," which is exactly the lesson she learns when the media blows up her mistake and ridicules the wrong party.

the lesson is an important one: you MUST take care of yourself. you must be aware of yourself and your surroundings. if something is important to you, take care of it.

it's sad that the woman had to steal a girl's money, but i cannot pity a girl who has $20 to lose. i can, however, feel bad for a girl who is robbed of an opportunity to learn an important lesson.
minniemoose

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Jun 4, 2009
 
I can't believe this is even making the news. Come on, people are getting killed over car jackings and muggings and we're making a big deal over 20 bucks.
U of Chicago Professor

Batavia, IL

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#15
Jun 4, 2009
 
The times-are-a-changin'. "Deerfield woman resorts to stealing from child in today's economic times".
True Dat

Oswego, IL

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#16
Jun 4, 2009
 
Blame the dumbarse parents of the kid who's money was taken for not teaching the kid that there are thieves in this world. Yeah, I always put my money on the counter while I decide what ice cream I want. You hang on to it until you place it in the cashier's hand. The kid should have gotten a beatdown if that lady really wanted her ice cream money.
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Jun 4, 2009
 
Hmm wrote:
Why would the husband need to turn her in if "the case was cracked" by a friend coming forth and outing the woman? That doesn't make any sense.
It is a poorly written piece, like most in the Trib these days. Lazy journalists, lazy editors.
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Jun 4, 2009
 
minniemoose wrote:
I can't believe this is even making the news. Come on, people are getting killed over car jackings and muggings and we're making a big deal over 20 bucks.
It's the principle, not the $20 that makes this news.
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Jun 4, 2009
 
That husband is trash. The lowest form of humanity are informers, stool-pigeons, whistle-blowers and snithches Nobody likes or trusts such vermin. The girls have been deprived of a life-long learning experience. The wife cannot trust her husband, and she should be inavailable to him for 6 months,
Can you spell

Hobart, IN

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Jun 4, 2009
 
D-I-V-O-R-C-E!
corporate suit

Park Ridge, IL

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#22
Jun 4, 2009
 
This must not have been the first time this woman has stolen something. Her husband probably turned her in to give her a wake up call, because his other efforts to correct this problem have failed.

This way, this woman's friends (if she has any more) and family don't have to perform an awkward intervention.
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