December 08, 2005

Bar Codes Never Lie

I always knew that engineering students thought they were smarter than everyone else, but when push came to shove, were pussies.

It seems that Jonathan Baldino, University of Colorado engineering student, thought that he could make his own bar code stickers and put them on boxes, thus giving him a little discount. He thought he could pass off $150 iPod speakers for $4.99. What a dumbass! He should have used an M.O. of a former client, who kept getting caught and spent three stretches in Ohio prisons because every Wal-Mart east of the Mississippi had his picture up at cash registers. Put the electronics in a large box for a cheap kid's toy and try to get through check-out paying for the kid's toy.

Anyway, Jonathan wimped out and confessed in a hand-written statement:

I am a 19 year old boy who has never really been in trouble for anything in my life. I a m am obviously extremely upset & nervous about this. I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN & I am once more terribly sorry! I have never even stolen a candy bar from a 7-eleven before!!! Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I don't just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please! ca I am scared half to death! Sincerely, Jonathan Baldino

Then, in a second statement, he showed his true colors when he wrote:

I am extremely sad now, & I just want to go to bed. Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight.

He should have called a lawyer. Don't they teach that in engineering crime school?

Posted by Bill at December 8, 2005 06:16 PM
Comments

Isn't it amazing how stupid some smart people can be?

(Consider, for example, you know who -- the one who thinks she can write her own dictionary over on my blog....)

Posted by: Joel Sax at December 9, 2005 12:19 AM