NJ teens rewarded after paying for items at store with no clerk
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These football players scored a touchdown without setting foot on the field.
Four members of the William Paterson University football team in New Jersey each scored $50 gift cards after surveillance cameras captured them at a Wayne store paying for batteries and sunglasses, even though no employees were around.
Buddy's Small Lots was actually closed Sunday night. But the lock malfunctioned and the lights were on, making it appear as though it was open.
Buddy's management got a call from police that there had been a break-in, but upon arrival, nothing was missing from the store, News 12 New Jersey reported.
Cameras showed the men calling an audible, shouting out for a clerk. Two can be seen depositing cash on the counter, one waving bills in the direction of a camera.
"Not only did they leave money on the counter, they counted out the change," store operations manager Marci Lederman told News 12 New Jersey.
Lederman went to the university personally to present the players with the gift cards and to thank them.
"I didn't think it was going to blow up to be this big," one of the players, Kell'e Gallimore, said.
His teammate, Thomas James, told the station that not everyone is a thief.
"You can't judge people by the way they look," he said.
The security issue at the store has since been fixed.
Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/23281071/nj-football-players-rewarded-after-paying-for-items-at#ixzz2dImJhY2b
Four members of the William Paterson University football team in New Jersey each scored $50 gift cards after surveillance cameras captured them at a Wayne store paying for batteries and sunglasses, even though no employees were around.
Buddy's Small Lots was actually closed Sunday night. But the lock malfunctioned and the lights were on, making it appear as though it was open.
Buddy's management got a call from police that there had been a break-in, but upon arrival, nothing was missing from the store, News 12 New Jersey reported.
Cameras showed the men calling an audible, shouting out for a clerk. Two can be seen depositing cash on the counter, one waving bills in the direction of a camera.
"Not only did they leave money on the counter, they counted out the change," store operations manager Marci Lederman told News 12 New Jersey.
Lederman went to the university personally to present the players with the gift cards and to thank them.
"I didn't think it was going to blow up to be this big," one of the players, Kell'e Gallimore, said.
His teammate, Thomas James, told the station that not everyone is a thief.
"You can't judge people by the way they look," he said.
The security issue at the store has since been fixed.
Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/23281071/nj-football-players-rewarded-after-paying-for-items-at#ixzz2dImJhY2b
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I bet if I went to the comment section of nj.com I'd still see all types of racist comments
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So what they're saying is under normal Circumstances these ? would steal. Because they acted in a way that the "typical" ? would not have they deserve a reward. Got it.
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in before they are suspended for the first 6 games of the season
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BlackGerald wrote: »I bet if I went to the comment section of nj.com I'd still see all types of racist comments
Once they learn they're race...but if not they'll be assumed white and be praised by the savages that we call Caucasians -
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CoonKillaThird wrote: »So what they're saying is under normal Circumstances these ? would steal. Because they acted in a way that the "typical" ? would not have they deserve a reward. Got it.
You can't say that as you don't know if they would have done it had they been white customers -
Dumb ?
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Well......good for them.
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INB4 Fox News disregard the the facts, and say ONLY 3 black thugs were caught stealing, saw the cameras, and acted like they were paying for the batteries & sunglasses.
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in b4 NCAA ends they careers for accepting a $50 dollar gift card.
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This is news because they're black.
Would this ? make news if a white kid did it? -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »This is news because they're black.
Would this ? make news if a white kid did it?
Short answer? No it wouldn't. We're perceived as mindless "thugs" so whenever something happens that doesn't fit that stereotype, then people are shocked.
Pretty pathetic but it is what it is. Change a mind one ignorant person at a time and this may end one day..... -
good story but damn shame that doing the right thing is so atypical this has become a story
in other breaking news I gave up my seat to old lady on the train. where my gift card? -
These kids were dumb as ? . How about you just leave and go to another store that's actually open?
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Rewarded for NOT doing the wrong thing?
Welcome to 2013. -
? squares.
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whats so special about that
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u telling me they added up the tax and all tho?
? squares -
Good job brothas, keep doing the right thing.
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HAF BAYKED wrote: »u telling me they added up the tax and all tho?
? squares
Lmao -
I'd have done the same ? ...immediately before making a phone call to my peeps to clean that ? out.