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'Peanut Butter Cup Bandit' Is Harmless Compared to Crazy People on Bath Salts (VIDEO)

by Jacqueline Burt on June 20, 2012 at 11:42 PM

reese's peanut butter cup banditIf somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to pick one absolute favorite candy in the whole wide world, it would probably be Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. (I really like candy, so it would be super tough to narrow it down.) So part of me totally empathizes with the "Reese's Cup Bandit" a Lorain, Ohio thief who has apparently snatched approximately $600 worth of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups from a Sunoco gas station in the past several months. (Also, on Tuesday at 1 a.m. he stole a bag of chips to go with his peanut butter cups. Dinner AND dessert!)

Sunoco employees describe the thief as a young man, probably around 18 years of age, who dresses all in black and usually strikes after midnight. Oh, and apparently he's a non-violent sort of criminal: When a clerk tried to block his way into the store, the thief simply spun the clerk around, grabbed his snacks, and bailed.

Police have yet to identify the bandit, but honestly, I don't know why they'd even bother. All this guy wants is peanut butter cups! What are they gonna do, put him in jail?!

Look, I'm not saying it's okay to steal or that the alleged candyman shouldn't have to face some sort of consequences. But let's put this in perspective: He's not busting in with a box cutter and raiding the cash register. He's not stealing ... um ... well, I don't know. Is anything valuable sold in gas stations besides the actual fuel? Hmm, they still sell bath salts at some gas stations, right?

As long as we're on the topic of bath salts, let's just go ahead and compare the Peanut Butter Cup Bandit's "crime" with the recent unlawful acts committed by people under the influence of the "designer" drug. Let's just go ahead and compare stealing candy with eating somebody's face off, or dressing up in lingerie and killing a pygmy goat, or eating somebody else's face off, or stabbing a priest, or attacking your 3-year-old.

I really, really don't think the peanut butter cup guy is someone to worry about. Why not just leave an open case of the candy outside the gas station with a sign: "Free Reese's here! All for you! You don't even gotta come inside!!"

What would you do for a Klondike bar Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?

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Comments

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  • Jespren
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    Jespren

    June 21, 2012 at 7:22 AM
    Um...WHAT?? A *criminal* STEALS $600 of merchandice and your response amounts to 'well he should be given it for free'. Let's see, $600, that's the price of a cheaper t.v., vcr, and an Xbox put together, if someone broke into your home and stole your home theater set up do you think you should smile and give him your dvd collection because the most violent he got was to push you when you tried to stop him? Stealing is *wrong*, and, more pertinent to the point, *illegal*. Do we decline to prosecute molesters because there are serial rapists? Or abusers because there are serial killers? There is *always* a worse crime out there (or wait a few months and there will be) and we don't ignore criminals just because they aren't the current 'worst'. Jail? Maybe not. Arrest, record, recompensation, parol and/or community service? Absolutely. (Personally I'd vote for double recompensation and making him stand outside the store with a sign that says 'i was stupid enough to steal $600 of candy', that will nip his theivery habbit in the bud.)
  • EmmaF...
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    EmmaFromÉire

    June 21, 2012 at 8:46 AM
    Incredible, your second bizarre article in a day. On what planet is stealing okay? It's NEVER okay to steal. I can understand if you're homeless, but even then homeless people would steal real food, not total junk like that. If you genuinely believe that hitting someone is okay as long as you're smaller, and stealing peanut butter cups is perfectly okay, then i worry about what kind of person you are.
  • Sabrina
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    Sabrina

    June 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM
    Let's imagine that someone robbed your house, and the police said that since they didn't try to eat your face while they were robbing you that it was no big deal that you were just going to have to suck it up and get over it and quit being a big loser. Maybe you should leave your electronics outside, or your kids outside your house for other people to take as they please. Your articles are terrible.
  • NatAndCo
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    NatAndCo

    June 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM
    Anyone else notice her article about Kris and Kim is gone?
  • Lord K
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    Lord K

    June 21, 2012 at 11:09 AM
    Well if he keeps this up he'll soon be to fat to run from clerks...
  • Cassy
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    Cassy

    June 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM
    Obviously these commenters don't love some Peanut Butter cups like I do. The easiest solution is just put the PB cups behind the counter lol
  • banan...
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    banana-bear

    June 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM
    You are a special kind of nitwit. Wow. When is it EVER okay to steal? Let me take $600 from you and say, "Well hey, at least it ain't bath salts!"
  • the4m...
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    the4mutts

    June 21, 2012 at 12:49 PM
    I hope someone steals every damn thing you own. I also hope they get away with it, on the logic that "at least they didn't eat your face."
    Then I hope a midget kicks your ass, because they're smaller than you.
    Maybe you're trying to be funny, but let's be real, you're not. There's something wrong with your thinking process.
    I am officially done reading or commenting anything you post.
  • kuwel...
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    kuwelsdestiny

    June 21, 2012 at 1:11 PM
    #clicks on article
    #reads
    #facepalms
    #prays
    #clicks on comments
    #prostrates self on floor THANKING THE HOLY LORD ABOVE that at least the commentors here have some sense

  • Histo...
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    HistoryMamaX3

    June 21, 2012 at 2:01 PM

    The author fails to realize that the 'bath salts' are not really bath salts... you know, the kind you buy off the shelf. The dangerous ones that cause people to eat people's faces off are an actual DRUG made by people and CALLED bath salts, you know- in order to make them sound cooler than calling them highly dangerous substances that cause you to eat your fellow humans.

    But, research isn't a strong suit here on CM- and they have writers who believe stealing is 'ok' so long as it contains chocolate. *sigh*


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