Safeway drops sandwich theft charges

[The Straight Story]

Safeway drops sandwich theft charges

HONOLULU (AP) — The Safeway supermarket chain is declining to press charges against a Honolulu couple whose arrests over stolen sandwiches led state workers to take their 2-year-old daughter and sparked nationwide outrage.

Safeway told Honolulu police Tuesday that it won't press charges against Marcin and Nicole Leszczynski, company spokeswoman Susan Houghton told The Associated Press. The couple were arrested last week when Nicole, who is 30 weeks pregnant, ate a sandwich while shopping and walked out without paying.

Their daughter Zofia was taken away by state Child Welfare Services officials. She was returned to her parents 18 hours later.

Karl Schroeder, a Safeway division president, called Nicole Leszczynski on Tuesday, and, "He apologized for what she's been through," Houghton said.

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-safeway-drops-sandwich-theft-charges-022842086.html

[Tesha]

1. You knew they would the moment this hit the media.

Stories like this almost *ALWAYS* work out this way.

Somewhere in some office within Safeway, the conversation
went something like this:

"They did *WHAT*? And you did *THAT* in response?
What are you, a fuckin' moron? Do you see this newspaper
story? Did you see that TV story? We'll be doing damage
control for months!" Get the Hell out of this office; you're
scheduled to be bagging on Lane 3 in our Podunk store.
For the next ten years!!! Maybe you can handle *THAT* job!

Tesha

[mainer]

2. I can't believe the nasty comments on that article

Accusing the couple of being deadbeats and thieves. This couple paid $50 for groceries and forgot about the $5 sandwiches. Absolutely believable when you're fussing with a 3-year-old kid, starved from a bus ride, and trying to load your groceries into a cart.

Have we lost our sense of compassion and empathy?

[woo me with science]

3. Yes. nt