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Kathianne
08-28-2013, 08:36 PM
Think of your own kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces, neighbor kids, are they mostly 'good kids' or 'bad kids?' My experience, with more than normal regarding teens, good kids. Sometimes they act goofy, like first waving the money in front of the camera, after trying to get service. But in the end, did the right thing.

Most are not wannabe gang bangers or out to take whatever they can get. Enjoy!


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/honesty-pays-teens-grab-items-closed-new-jersey-store-pay-flee-article-1.1439324

Honesty pays! Four teens grab items from closed New Jersey store — but pay before they flee

The honest burglars — Thomas James, Kell'E Gallimore, Jelani Bruce and Anthony Biondi — didn't know the store, Buddy's Small Lots, was closed when they walked in Sunday evening. They couldn't find an employee after they grabbed several items, so they left the money on the counter and fled

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 1:41 PM



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The four teens, who play football for William Paterson University, walked into the store thinking it was open.



Now that’s a clean getaway.


Four teens waltzed into a closed New Jersey store, grabbed several items — and then paid for the goods before they left.


And a security camera captured them doing the good deed, which included them adding the appropriate tax.
The honest burglars — Thomas James, Kell’E Gallimore, Jelani Bruce and Anthony Biondi — stepped forward after the owners of Buddy’s Small Lots went public about the bizarre Sunday evening break-in, News 12 (http://newjersey.news12.com/news/honest-shoppers-praised-after-buddy-s-small-lots-in-wayne-security-malfunction-1.5961402) first reported.


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Two of the men were captured on surveillance footage paying for several items that they grabbed from a closed New Jersey store.


The four teens, who had recently moved to the area to play football for William Paterson University, said they didn’t know the store was even closed.


Store management told the news station that the doors were open due to a malfunctioned lock.


“It looked like it was open,” Gallimore told NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/passaic-county/index.ssf/2013/08/men_who_left_money_on_the_counter_at_wayne_store_l eft_open_after_closing_were_william_paterson_footb .html#incart_m-rpt-1). “Some lights were on, some lights were off. No one was at the register.”



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The four football players left money, including tax, for the items they took out of the New Jersey store.


The quartet wandered through the empty store looking for audio cable and batteries they needed after moving to their dorm rooms. But once they gathered what they needed, they still couldn’t spot a single employee.

They finally gave up and started waving cash in front of a security camera before placing the bills on a counter as they left.


“We had to get to practice, because we were running a little late,” Bruce told the news site. “So we decided to put the money on the counter instead of stealing it, because that’s just not right.”


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The four teens didn’t know the store was closed. The doors were open because of a broken lock.


Marci Lederman of Buddy’s Small Lots said she wanted to reward the four teens after she saw surveillance footage of the good deed.


“Just to say thank you in person,” she told News 12.


The teens were a bit reluctant to step forward, but eventually turned themselves in.


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The store’s manager said the lock on the door has since been fixed.


“We thought we were in trouble at first,” Bruce told NJ.com. “We didn’t know.”


But when the four football players showed up, Lederman made sure the teens got a few extra items for their dorm rooms on the house.


“They represented themselves, their families and the team very well,” the school’s head football coach told the news site.



From another article I found she'd given them each a $50 gift certificate, to 'thank them' and encourage them to be regular customers. How classy were all!

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
08-28-2013, 08:48 PM
Think of your own kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces, neighbor kids, are they mostly 'good kids' or 'bad kids?' My experience, with more than normal regarding teens, good kids. Sometimes they act goofy, like first waving the money in front of the camera, after trying to get service. But in the end, did the right thing.

Most are not wannabe gang bangers or out to take whatever they can get. Enjoy!


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/honesty-pays-teens-grab-items-closed-new-jersey-store-pay-flee-article-1.1439324


From another article I found she'd given them each a $50 gift certificate, to 'thank them' and encourage them to be regular customers. How classy were all!
Bravo! Good people tend to inspire others to do good. I am sure millions of black kids will see this honest act on video and call those good kids --suckers.

Fusco
08-28-2013, 08:50 PM
Not that I insult these fellows, but

Why are we celebrating this? SSDD.
Gosh, its like coddling a 4 year old. Good job, guys, here's some milk and cookies and a Dora cartoon sticker! gift certificates and a cameo on a daytime talk show.

Why are we going so far to celebrate something which, 35 years ago, was second nature? sick. For instance, my mother and grandmother told me stories of how they didn't need to lock their doors or cars.
Why are we celebrating what should be second nature and the norm? Are our collective standards so low?

Kathianne
08-28-2013, 09:00 PM
Not that I insult these fellows, but

Why are we celebrating what should be second nature and the norm? Are our collective standards so low?

I think of it as more of balancing out all the 'big negative' stories out there. Since the whole Trayvon thing, on many sites, folks seriously offended by the justice system and undue influence of racial leaders, have been giving many cases of black on white, hispanic on white, accounts of horrible crimes.

Hey, I'm in Chicago. We've had many stories on the 'flash mobs' via texts. They do happen. How many kids? 20? Less? More?

Every day, most teens do just what your saying, behaving as second nature to the norms. They will go on to successful lives in all likelihood.

But with all of the coverage of the 'bad kids' seems nice to find one saying, "Hey we have proof! We don't need to draw conclusions. These are 4 decent young people." The good kids need attention too.

And the older people need to remember that they shouldn't let the bad folks get them down.

Kathianne
08-28-2013, 09:02 PM
Bravo! Good people tend to inspire others to do good. I am sure millions of black kids will see this honest act on video and call those good kids --suckers.

White kids too. 3 blacks and 1 white. How totally normal today. :laugh2: I am kidding.

Gaffer
08-28-2013, 09:04 PM
Not that I insult these fellows, but

Why are we celebrating what should be second nature and the norm? Are our collective standards so low?

To answer your question, yes they are. The celebrating is to show that everyone should be this way. But the standards of this country are not just low, they are abysmal.

Kathianne
08-28-2013, 09:10 PM
To answer your question, yes they are. The celebrating is to show that everyone should be this way. But the standards of this country are not just low, they are abysmal.

I understand why you'd say that, but let's look at this reasonably. You just responded to an early 20 something who's already put 4 years into the Navy. Look at your grandsons. I'm saying that for the past 15 years, I've met literally hundreds, if not a thousand kids from 13-19 years old. Many of those 'developmentally challenged.' I would bet whatever, that 90% of them would have acted the same under the same circumstances.

I blame Bush the media.

Fusco
08-28-2013, 09:12 PM
I would have walked out, for fear of somebody stealing the money.

aboutime
08-28-2013, 09:23 PM
Those are four regular, honest, personally responsible kids.

It came to light, and became a big story because all of the GOOD stories generally are never told, or reported today. It's just the way our society has become, and the press has avoided such reports because...to them. It isn't the right kind of story they want to tell anymore.

How many newspapers, radio, and tv stations report GOOD NEWS all the time??

Answer. ZERO.

Based on the old editor warnings to what used to be REAL journalists...."IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS" is the standard. Anything else is just boring, and doesn't sell.

LIKE TRUTH, HONOR, and RESPECTABILITY.

Gaffer
08-28-2013, 09:36 PM
I understand why you'd say that, but let's look at this reasonably. You just responded to an early 20 something who's already put 4 years into the Navy. Look at your grandsons. I'm saying that for the past 15 years, I've met literally hundreds, if not a thousand kids from 13-19 years old. Many of those 'developmentally challenged.' I would bet whatever, that 90% of them would have acted the same under the same circumstances.

I blame Bush the media.

You may be right. I am too cynical.But then I have spent too many years dealing with that other 10% you are speaking of. And it's true the media does tend to be bias and never reports on the good stuff. But I do think these guys need to be celebrated. Too many good deeds go unnoticed.

Kathianne
08-28-2013, 09:38 PM
Those are four regular, honest, personally responsible kids.

It came to light, and became a big story because all of the GOOD stories generally are never told, or reported today. It's just the way our society has become, and the press has avoided such reports because...to them. It isn't the right kind of story they want to tell anymore.

How many newspapers, radio, and tv stations report GOOD NEWS all the time??

Answer. ZERO.

Based on the old editor warnings to what used to be REAL journalists...."IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS" is the standard. Anything else is just boring, and doesn't sell.

LIKE TRUTH, HONOR, and RESPECTABILITY.

I agree in the main. Of course a news organization wouldn't survive saying, "Not much wrong today, go about your business, that will be $1.00'

However, folks need to realize that what they are seeing on the tv, hearing on the radio, and the few still reading the papers are the exceptions-those that kill, maim, and are outside the norm.

Truth is, since teens became a 'special category' in the early 20's, they've been defined by the worst behaved amongst them. Most of them, like I said previously, in my experience probably 90% are upstanding people and citizens.

Kathianne
08-28-2013, 09:55 PM
You may be right. I am too cynical.But then I have spent too many years dealing with that other 10% you are speaking of. And it's true the media does tend to be bias and never reports on the good stuff. But I do think these guys need to be celebrated. Too many good deeds go unnoticed.

I agree. It was these kids luck that they basically committed burglary, unknowingly. LOL! But they paid. They were clueless the store was closed, it appeared open. They did the right thing, though they could have just left with the stuff. That it WAS TAPED made it a story.

Most 'good stuff' isn't taped. Helping a kid that's fallen off their bike. Calming down a challenged kid overwhelmed by something. Helping someone who's dropped books/papers. Getting the morning paper for mom. The lists go on and on. Good kids are constantly doing things that just aren't 'news.'

When a video tape catches them in a situation they hadn't a clue they were in, that is news. That the owners seemed to want them to get the accolades, bully! It seems to me the kids 'came out ahead' in this deal. By doing the right thing.

Marcus Aurelius
08-28-2013, 10:26 PM
whomever wrote the NY Daily News piece is an idiot.


left the money on the counter and fled

Fled? They figured out no one was there, needed the stuff, left the money (after waving it at the security cameras) PLUS sales tax...

Fled???

Dumb ass writer.

No1tovote4
08-28-2013, 10:56 PM
I love how it says they "before they fled"...

More like "before they went home".

Why was the store unlocked?

Kathianne
08-29-2013, 12:45 AM
I love how it says they "before they fled"...

More like "before they went home".

Why was the store unlocked?

Broken lock, fixed before article published. I like it for the positive message regarding young folks. More are like this than not, IMO. Really shouldn't be 'news' but so rarely covered where the crimes are.

Voted4Reagan
08-29-2013, 05:59 AM
from Wikipedia:

William Paterson University has been honored as a “Military Friendly School” by militaryfriendlyschools.com (http://www.militaryfriendlyschools.com) and is included in their 2011, 2012 and 2013 Guide to Military Friendly Schools.

Also...

JOE CLARK is an alumni.

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/m.php/2011/01/joe-clark-time.jpg

Larrymc
08-29-2013, 06:05 AM
Think of your own kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces, neighbor kids, are they mostly 'good kids' or 'bad kids?' My experience, with more than normal regarding teens, good kids. Sometimes they act goofy, like first waving the money in front of the camera, after trying to get service. But in the end, did the right thing.

Most are not wannabe gang bangers or out to take whatever they can get. Enjoy!


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/honesty-pays-teens-grab-items-closed-new-jersey-store-pay-flee-article-1.1439324


From another article I found she'd given them each a $50 gift certificate, to 'thank them' and encourage them to be regular customers. How classy were all!Its always nice to see young people doing the right thing, Great Story