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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Honesty (New Subject?)
Message-ID: <1448@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 15:20:41 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1448
Posted: Thu Mar  6 15:20:41 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 07:24:25 EST
References: <2444@sdcc6.UUCP> <3322@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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Summary:

In article <2444@sdcc6.UUCP> kemasa@sdcc6.UUCP (kemasa) writes:
>If someone  commits  a crime at what point do you turn them in or do
>you?  

Seven years ago (just over the statues of limitations), my roommate at the time
found a girl's checkbook in a dormitory parking lot.  The register indicated
that there was about $900 in the account.  He proceeded to pull some strings
and have a Student ID made with his girlfriend's face and the victim's name on
it.

They then took the Id and the checkbook and went shopping for stereo equipment
at a store that he knew didn't ask for much ID when checks were involved.  He
bought about $800 worth of merchandise, which his girlfriend paid for with one
of the found checks.

I knew about the whole plan from the beginning.  What was my responsibility?
Well, I asked him what he felt about the girl whose money he was stealing.  He
didn't seem to care at all.  So, my decision was to move the damage to a party
that I felt could whether the loss of $800 more than someone with only $900.

I called the bank and reported the checkbook stolen.  My roommate got his
stereo, and the girl kept her money.  The bank bounced the stolen check and
the stereo store had to eat it.  I suppose that I should have turned him in,
but I just didn't feel right about it.  I certainly couldn't sit and watch him
steal almost all of some poor girl's tuition money, so I found a compromise.

Before I left town, I rendered the stereo inoperable, and for all practical
purposes, unrepairable.
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Mark D. Freeman                                             mdf@osu-eddie.uucp
StrongPoint Systems, Inc.				    mdf@osu-eddie.arpa
Guest account at The Ohio State University		 !cbosgd!osu-eddie!mdf

I speak, therefore I disclaim everything I say.
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