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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
Because it contains a platinum AmEx card, they can bump it up to a felony. They won't wait to see if you intend on trying to find the owner on your own, and this is entrapment.
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This is an interesting distinction. It seems that many of these people are arrested before they become aware of what's in the wallet/purse. Even if we assume that their intent is theft, I don't see how it's fair to punish someone more severely because of the presence of a credit card. If you don't know what's in the wallet you're stealing, shouldn't the penalty be the same whether it happens to be a credit card or a few bucks?
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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