Eyman's attorneys: Not paying for $70 chair was inadvertent
LACEY — Tim Eyman’s lawyers say it was an accident that he didn’t pay for the $70 chair he’s seen on surveillance video rolling out the front door of an Office Depot store.
And they tried to make things right.
The city prosecutor says it was a crime and has cited Eyman, 53, with theft in the third degree, a gross misdemeanor with a potential punishment of 364 days in jail and a fine of up to $5,000. The complaint was filed Saturday. No court date has been set.
On Tuesday, Eyman’s attorneys offered an explanation and provided a statement from Eyman in which the professional initiative promoter vigorously proclaimed his innocence.
“I did not … walk into an Office Depot in Lacey wearing a bright red ‘Let The Voters Decide’ t-shirt, smile for the cameras, and steal a $70 chair just moments before spending $300 on 2 printers and after getting some life changing good news,” Eyman wrote. “The reason that doesn’t make any sense is because it doesn’t make any sense. It’s ridiculous, it’s insane, it’s completely unbelievable.
“As the video shows, I went back into the store to pay for it,” his statement continued. “That’s right, rather than hopping in my car for a daring get away after my successful bank heist, I walked back into the store and inserted my debit card into the chip reader (Jesse James I’m not).”
In their statement, attorneys Dan Gerl and Casey Arbenz said they contacted store officials “in an effort to return the chair and/or pay for it, as its removal without payment was accidental. We also reached out to the City of Lacey to explain the circumstances of the chair’s accidental removal.”
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