This has been reported several places, but there has been an increasing number of newspapers being stolen. The deviant behavior causing this? Extreme Couponing. You read correctly. Couponing!Here's an example from Christian Post.com.
"A 34-year-old woman was charged with a misdemeanor theft last week in Arkansas when she stole 185 unsold copies of the local newspaper. She told police that she was a coupon club member, and felt that she had not committed a crime, reported the Huffington Post."
Since when is stealing not a crime?!?
I had heard the story above reported on my local Fox station this week and then today, I heard about this phenomenon first-hand.
You see, this was my first time going to Dollar Tree for my Sunday paper. I don't know about across the nation, but locally, Dollar Tree offers the Sunday paper for half price! Cha Ching!
But get this, half price is not good enough for some people. The store is making a rule that you can't go any farther than the check outs with the papers any more. When walking through the store, the employees often find newspapers lying around with just the coupons gone! They had already found five of them today!
So, all this to say, "DON'T STEAL NEWSPAPERS!!", but if you want a good DEAL on your newspaper, go to Dollar Tree.
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