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Originally Posted by OilersBaby
Im so sorry to hear about the assault. If anyone ever did that to my dad, I would be so mad, I dont know what I would do...its a stupid crime and for 20 bucks.
My husbands a prosecutor here in California and he recently went to trial on a case where 3 people assualted someone and there was NO money in the wallet..they're going to jail/prison (prison for the repeat offenders..one of them got 3 years and jail for the dude who comitted the crime for the first time).
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This is one thing I think the media and people in general play up a little bit much; the amount of money the person had. Really it's just an assault by cowards every time, the amount of money taken is kind of moot imo, since the attacker(s) doesn't know what the person had on them. You often see "Man stabbed over $10!", well the idiot attacker didn't say, i'm going to stab someone over $10, he just attacked and hoped the person had lots of money.
I guess I'm being a little petty here, but when I read those kind of headlines, it always makes me think that they're implying that had the victim had say $2000 on them, that the attack would have been less outrageous.
You often read "Man stabbed over $50", with the emphasis on the fact that it was over a measley $50, but you never read "man attacked and stabbed, however he had over $3000 on him, so this obviously wasn't some coward criminal who would stab someone over $50"