Man Found Innocent Of Diarrhea Medicine Shoplifting

[matcom]

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VENICE -- Shoplifting charges have been dropped against an 89-year-old Venice resident who was accused of walking out of a local store with a box of diarrhea medicine stashed in his pocket.

George Lott was taken to jail in handcuffs June 28 from the Kash n' Karry on U.S. 41 Bypass.

The state attorney's office dropped the charges against him soon after speaking to Lott's doctor.

Lott's wife, who entered the store with him and was to meet him at the checkout counter, said he'd forgotten that he had put the box in his pocket.

She said her husband had suffered two strokes and was in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

On Thursday, Lucille Lott said well-wishers keep making her husband relive a painful memory each time they call the Lott home for an update.

"I got two yesterday, and look how long it's been," she said.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004407300694

[underpants]

1. Warning! Really tasteles joke inside Warning!

Alzheimers and Diarrhea huh? I hope he doesn't sh*t his brains out.

[bo44]

2. Cops did not have to haul him off to jail

They could have resolved everything with the store and the old man without cuffing him and throwing him in jail. Children are afforded the opportunity to make amends without going to the hall. Why can't an old about to shit ass get a break?

[yellowcanine]

3. Why didn't he just swallow the evidence? Right there in the store before

he left? You know no one is going to try to retrieve it. When he needed more he could have "hit" another store. Kind of cool - the Bumbling Bowel Bandit.