Priest Accused of Shoplifting at Wal-mart in Illinois

[pioneer]

ABC News: A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He's charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the store's bedding section, picked up a memory foam mattress and switched the pricing bar code. That caused the $145 item to be scanned for $31.

Allegedly, Poole also possessed a stolen laptop computer power pack.

He's the priest for St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Christopher and St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sesser.

Poole does not have a listed home telephone number, and messages left for him at the churches were not returned.

[bugsay]

klypto?.....kalooy sab!!!

[ms da binsi]

sus illness jud tawon na nija! kalooy sad oi! mas maluoy pa ko ana kay sa mang molest! tawon sad...

[statesville]

Uy! gimagnet tingali or basin nakalimot lang ug bayad

[hubag bohol]

Thou SHALT shoplift: Priest tells congregation it's better than robbery or prostitution

By Chris Brooke
Last updated at 9:44 AM on 22nd December 2009
(from www.dailymail.co.uk)

Poor people who are desperate for cash have been advised to go forth and shoplift from major stores - by an Anglican priest.

The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.

He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment 'thou shalt not steal' because it 'is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve'.

But his advice was roundly condemned by police and the local Tory MP. Father Jones, 42, was discussing Mary and the birth of Jesus when he went on to the subject of how poor and vulnerable people cope in the run-up to Christmas.

'My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,' he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.

'I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

'I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.

'I would ask them not to take any more than they need. I offer the advice with a heavy heart. Let my words not be misrepresented as a simplistic call for people to shoplift.

'The observation that shoplifting is the best option that some people are left with is a grim indictment of who we are.

'Rather, this is a call for our society no longer to treat its most vulnerable people with indifference and contempt.
'When people are released from prison, or find themselves suddenly without work or family support, then to leave them for weeks with inadequate or clumsy social support is monumental, catastrophic folly.

'We create a situation which leaves some people little option but crime.'

[ms da binsi]

Thou SHALT shoplift: Priest tells congregation it's better than robbery or prostitution

By Chris Brooke
Last updated at 9:44 AM on 22nd December 2009
(from www.dailymail.co.uk)

Poor people who are desperate for cash have been advised to go forth and shoplift from major stores - by an Anglican priest.

The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.

He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment 'thou shalt not steal' because it 'is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve'.

But his advice was roundly condemned by police and the local Tory MP. Father Jones, 42, was discussing Mary and the birth of Jesus when he went on to the subject of how poor and vulnerable people cope in the run-up to Christmas.

'My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,' he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.

'I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

'I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.

'I would ask them not to take any more than they need. I offer the advice with a heavy heart. Let my words not be misrepresented as a simplistic call for people to shoplift.

'The observation that shoplifting is the best option that some people are left with is a grim indictment of who we are.

'Rather, this is a call for our society no longer to treat its most vulnerable people with indifference and contempt.
'When people are released from prison, or find themselves suddenly without work or family support, then to leave them for weeks with inadequate or clumsy social support is monumental, catastrophic folly.

'We create a situation which leaves some people little option but crime.'

ija nalang na gi justify ija pagka KLEPTOMANIAC. Honest to God, wa jud insaktong ginikanan mo ingon sa ija anak nga its ok to shoplift! for heaven's sake!
Beg!!! dont steal!!!

Now, i would like to ask Chicky, is it okay to shoplift if one is hungry? One can ask! ilabi na diri sa Merika nga people are very generous!

He is a shame, im sorry to say. makadaut sa moral sa ubang mga pari nga maajo!

[statesville]

Ang usa ka pari  nag ingon okey ra mangawat, so the other priest
   put the words in action. hmmp

"Thou shat not steal" mao nay pulong sa Ginoo
  no matter how much excuses ang buhaton
  it's still a sin.

[hubag bohol]

Ang problema sa pari nga nangawat, he wasn't really in dire need. I mean, I can't imagine a priest, with a parish and all, to have nothing to eat.   

[ms da binsi]

Ang problema sa pari nga nangawat, he wasn't really in dire need. I mean, I can't imagine a priest, with a parish and all, to have nothing to eat.   

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basi nag damgo sija Hubs nga he was starving! hahahha! bali bitaw na oi! binuang lagi jud nah!

[glacier_71]

the shoplifting catholic priest can be psychologically ill

the preaching-to-shoplift anglican pastor can be morally liberated

one has to answer the doctor, the other to his superior.