Why does she have so much hate in her heart?

BY LINDA BENTLEY | MARCH 23, 2011

Circle K policy leaves no good deed unpunished

When it comes to cops and robbers, Circle K would rather be robbed

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CAVE CREEK – Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies were only able to apprehend the two Cave Creek Circle K robbers, Soldato Giganti, who has been linked to 15 other Circle K robberies, and his accomplice Stevi Clements, on March 15 because Stewart, a Circle K employee, went outside to get a description of the getaway car to give to fellow employee Kippi while she was on the phone with Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Stewart was immediately terminated for his part in helping apprehend a serial Circle K robber.
Although we’ve been unable to reach Stewart, it is our understanding that he had just completed his shift when the robbery occurred and, therefore, would have been leaving to go home anyway.
On March 11, Karen, who has worked at the Circle K located at 6802 E. Cave Creek Road for seven years, was terminated for her assistance in helping MCSO catch a couple of young shoplifters who made off with four packs of cigarettes a few days earlier.
According to Karen, when she was working Tuesday night she heard a loud pop and went to check inside the cooler to see if everything was OK but said when she came back out she saw two teens go behind the counter.
She asked them what they were doing and said they managed to grab four packs of cigarettes before fleeing the store.
Karen said there was a couple outside at the red box (DVD rental machine) so she went outside and asked if they saw which way the two shoplifters went.
The couple said the two were on foot and told Karen they saw them go across the street to the Mardi Gras event at the Buffalo Chip Saloon.
Karen said she went back inside and called the sheriff’s office to make a report. That was on Tuesday.
Karen went to work on Wednesday and said she was off on Thursday.
Friday morning Karen said she received a call from the store manager, who called her in to fire her.
She said the manager told her the policy book does not allow employees to go outside at night during their shift because they are putting their life at risk.
Circle K apparently has a zero tolerance policy, even if it means employees are using common sense and looking out for the company’s best interest.
Karen said MCSO came to her house after the incident with a couple of mug shots and asked if she could identify the two shoplifters, which she said she was able to do.
Because of her assistance in the apprehension of two thieves, Karen is now unemployed.
According to Karen, management would have employees sign various notices from time to time regarding company policies, which she said everyone signed but probably never read.
She said some employees go outside to smoke cigarettes during their night shifts and that has never seemed to be an issue with management.
Karen said management also saw no problem with having an employee working alone make up bank deposits at the front counter with large sums of money. 
But she was astonished to learn going outside for the express purpose of obtaining information that could assist law enforcement with apprehending robbers could get an employee canned.
Karen said she was told going outside at night puts employees’ lives at risk and would not be tolerated.
Kim Kwiatkowski from Circle K’s corporate office returned Sonoran News’ call on Tuesday morning to say “Circle K respectfully declines to comment.”

That article was possibly the most poorly written piece of garbage I have ever seen and I proof-read my blog. I had to read this four times to figure out what was going on.  Journalists everywhere should be happy because they are officially not the worst,  Linda Bentley is.  She didn’t try couldn’t find Stewart (no first name? is he a Brazillian soccer star clerking at Circle K in the offseason?) for comment on the story.  So instead she decided to get Karen’s side of the story (no last name).  What’s Karen’s relationship to this story, you ask?  Uh, nothing.  She got fired a week prior because, according to her, she helped capture a couple of shoplifters.   What’s not pointed out is that Karen could have prevented the shoplifting if she had stayed behind the counter like she is supposed to.  She would have known this if she had read any of the policy notices she signed.    Or, perhaps it’s because she was “robbed”  5 months ago.  http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2010/101013/frontpage_CircleK.html (ho-hum article, don’t bother unless we have trust issues)     Robbed is in quotes because neither time was a weapon used (would have been in first paragraph, always is).  I also know Karen is full of shit because  there is no absolutely, positively, bet my life on it, no way Frito-Lay is making a convenience store delivery on a Sunday morning in October.  No chance.   And I”m also supposed to believe the bicycle bandits had the capabilities to cut the power but couldn’t get into the safe, settling for Playboys instead?  Karen  was fired because she was either complicit or really really stupid in two robberies thefts in a five month period.   
Now that I’ve eviscerated the journalism, or lack thereof, I need to know what Linda Bentley’s beef is with Circle K.   Obviously, she is a poor journalist.  She is also a blogger who blogs mainly about Obama not being born in America.  The blog hasn’t been updated since 2009 (guess she lost that battle)  Also, it is on blogspot, not WordPress.  For shame, Linda, for shame.  In her free time, she dabbles in tile setting, glass etching, graphics and more.  I don’t believe Circle K has a glass etching department that may be infringing on her little Cave Creek monopoly and I don’t think they sell copies of Obama’s birth certificate.  Is she a Krispy Kreme buff with an irrational hatred towards the Doughnut Peddler?  I will not be sleeping until I know the answer. 

she was hot 40 years ago

P.S. Bravo to Kim Kwiatkowski for not responding to this despot.

Are there no more rich guys?

Police are investigating a robbery Wednesday night at the Corner Shoppe on Church Street in the Yalesville section of town.

Police said the robber went into the store about 7:15 p.m., punched a clerk in the face, demanded money, then tried to rob the clerk of his wallet. Paramedics treated the clerk for his injuries at the scene.

|By DAVID OWENS, dowens@courant.com, The Hartford Courant

 

Umm, I may not be an expert in the art of robbing convenience stores but isn’t the idea to obtain money?  Sure, sometimes you might grab a couple 30 racks of Natty Ice but usually cash is the endgame.   This guy is apparently operating on a higher plane of consciousness than myself.  How else to explain why he attempted to steal the clerk’s wallet.  How much cash can the $8/hr clerk have on him?  Especially on a Wednesday night, two days before payday?  The cash register is literally two feet away filled with the tear-soaked twenties of Yalesville residents who handed the last of their mortgage payment to the smiling Middle-Eastern gentleman who  promptly handed them a piece of cardboard with pretty colors and shiny dollar signs on the surface but ultimately are filled with empty promises and broken dreams.  Wouldn’t that have been a better target for the newest resident of Yalesville’s Most Wanted?  Again, not an expert.

Laziness Defined

A mother-of-two was nearly cheated out of $90,000 she had won on the lottery after a convenience store owner tried to pass her ticket off as his own, authorities said.  Kecia Parker from Dunn, North Carolina, was able to be tracked down by state lottery staff because she played the same numbers, at the same store every week since the lottery started in 2006.

Police arrested Pop Mart owner Sureshbha Patel after lottery officials became suspicious that he didn’t claim the cash for several months after the ticket had been purchased.

 

 

Mrs Parker explained to NBC-17: ‘I bought the ticket while I was on vacation.’

On her return she went through the Pop Mart drive-thru to get her ticket checked by Patel, who told her she had not won, she claimed.

Parker ‘I had no idea I had won.

‘I didn’t check my tickets anymore. I just let them scan them in and tell me.’

But had she been in the store, the lottery machine would have set off a winning alarm.

‘I went to a drive-thru and so I was on the outside and didn’t see or hear any bells that go off when you do win big.’

I first saw this story and was like, whatever, store owner rips off customer, not that interesting.  Happens waaaaay more than you think.  Although 90k is a pretty good haul.  But two words slipped seamlessly in the story caught my eye.  Read it again and see if you see what I saw.  Just do it already, it will be fun.  Done? Is your answer “drive-thru”?  I dropped my I-pad and almost drove off the road after I saw that.  They have drive-thru’s  in North Carolina for the fucking lottery!?!  (sorry for the exclamation points.  I know it’s a tool of the hack writer but if ever a situation called for them, this is it)  I’m speechless and blogging is a silent pursuit.  

I think this covers 6 out of the seven deadly sins.

Lust-  Don’t shoot the messenger, but for some women money is an aphrodisiac.  Get over it, Martha Burke.

Gluttony- This broad plays the lottery every day.  There is only one thing that if done every day is not overconsumption.  See above. 

Greed- Check

Sloth- No need to even get out of the 1987 wood-paneled station wagon.

Wrath-Unless she is attempting to show up her deadbeat dad of an ex-husband, I am forced to give Kecia a pass here.

Envy-A little tricky.  I submit that there would be no desire to win the lottery if not for envious feelings of what others have.  Keeping up with the Jones’s,  however circular your route, is a function of envy.

Pride-Maybe I’m stretching but hear me out.  Kecia is too proud to set foot in the Pop Mart and allow her fellow Dunn-ites to see her checking her daily affront to God’s will.  North Carolina being the heart of the Bible Belt, her gluttonous act is extremely shameful and too much for Mrs. Parker to bear, so she conducts her lustful business in the relative obscurity of the drive-thru.  Or, perhaps she had too much pride to suffer the indignity of the bells and alarms when a big winner is scanned inside the store.  Either way, we’re checking pride off the list.

Bottom line is we could have been spared all the rain and the fat guy puking if Kevin Spacey had lived in Dunn N.C.

P.S. I don’t know why the hell my font went huge and bold and then not bold even though it’s all bold as I type.  Will fix as soon as my technical better half gets up but this shit is too hot to withold from my adoring public.  WordPress does not appear to have an undo button

Aliens attack!

By Kyle Stucker
kstucker@fosters.com

Thursday, March 10, 2011

 BERWICK, Maine — Most mornings, the only encounters that happen at the School Street Cumberland Farms are between employees opening the store at 5 a.m. and bleary-eyed commuters and truckers.

Tuesday morning brought a different, eerier kind of encounter, though — one that included hovering lights seemingly moving forward and backward above buildings on Allen Street and the New Hampshire state line.

An employee at Cumberland Farms who wished to remain anonymous said he was standing in the store along with a couple of other individuals at about 4:45 a.m. when one person commented that the lights looked like an unidentified flying object.

The employee was skeptical, though, because he’s never heard of any alien abductions or sightings in town and because he didn’t have any strange gaps of missing time in his workday.

“Not that I know of, anyway, unless they implanted something,” said the man.

How pissed were these aliens when they found out that Cumby’s was giving away free coffee on fridays not tuesdays?

Suicide, Just another Z&Z suicide

Associated Press – March 14, 2011 3:45 PM ET

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma City police have released the name of a man who apparently accidentally hanged himself after breaking into a convenience store.

The Oklahoman reports that the body found Thursday stuck in the ceiling of the northeast Oklahoma City convenience store is that of 44-year-old Theophilus James Mollie. The state medical examiner’s office has ruled the death to be an accidental hanging.

Police say they believe Mollie burglarized the Z&Z Convenience Store and got stuck while trying to escape.

His body was found Thursday morning by a store employee.

Give this guy credit for ingenuity.   Between surveillance tapes and clerks tapping into their inner John Wayne,  it’s hard trying to eke out a living robbing convenience stores these days.   So, why not try to make it a 3rd shift position? Genius!  Problem is, I think Theophilus might have bitten off more than he could chew for his first foray into B&E.  Maybe he should have tried grabbing some scratchers at 7-11 before trying for the golden idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Escaping thru the ceiling tells me that the front door had been blocked by the giant boulder booby trap.  Too bad he touched one of the dark ceiling tiles.  The only question is: did Theophilus get the golden idol?  Did he possess the treasure for even a fleeting moment?  I need to know.  Do your job, Associated Press.  No wonder the newspaper industry is dying.

This whole me and God are tight thing is working out quite nicely, thanks

I’ll grant you that this video is much ado about nothing.  Biebs and his chick are just trying to get some hamburger rolls at 7-11 and he politely tells the annoying broad to leave them alone.  He even said please for crying out loud.  But the larger point is this;  the world is dying for some bored jack-off with a little too much time on his hands to point out how nutty and weird these places can be.  Also,  the first tag I put on this post is gonna be JUSTIN EFFIN BIEBER and the second is gonna be Selena Gomez (whoever that is, she’s famous?).  Can you say website hits?  Internet superstardom is next.  Then my ultimate dream can be realized, TROPHY WIFE! 

P.S.  A Ford Escape? He must have good parents who won’t let him spend all his dough.  That’s why he was buying hamburger rolls at 7-11 and not Whole Foods.  7-11 only sells generic bread.  That kind of inside knowledge is what will keep you coming back.

How the hell did this guy get this chick?

I’m minding my own business, putting snacks on a shelf when I hear the air get sucked out of the store.  I turn and look to see what is going on and am face to face with Penelope Cruz’s hot sister with bigger knockers and longer legs.  (disclosure: references to Penelope Cruz are for visual effect only.  I don’t want to piss off hardcore Cruz fans or Penelope herself,  just in case she’s reading) After I pick my jaw up off the floor, I notice the guy she is with.  Do you know any new words?  Because words I know don’t begin to describe how horrific this guy was.  Missing teeth, scraggly beard, stench of curry and a commitment to a soap-free lifestyle.   Mind-boggling.   I’m gonna guess that this guy was banging this chick and here’s how I know.  Because he had both hands on her ass while he kissed her harder than I’ve kissed anything since I was 15.   I know there are cultural differences at play here, but I’m pretty sure I can tell when a man and a woman like to show each other how much they love each other.  Just a skill I have, I guess. 

The questions left to ponder:  How much money is enough to land a chick out of your stratosphere? and How disgusting does one have to be before even filthy rich can’t get him laid?  There has to be some sort of trigonometrical equation that answers this.  $ squared divided by the square root of ugly=level of chick.  Lemme know if I figured it out, ladies.

P.S.  It was the guy on the left in the picture.  The guy on the right is kinda sexy

5th Grader pins drug bust on store clerk

Vallejo pot-laced cookie traced to gas station convenience store

By By Lanz Christian Bañes
(Vallejo) Times Herald

Posted: 03/01/2011 03:11:17 PM PST

Updated: 03/01/2011 05:22:54 PM PST

 

 

 VALLEJO — Vallejo police have traced to a gas station convenience store a marijuana-laced cookie that sickened several local elementary school students Monday.

The clerk at Calco Mart and Gas gas station and convenience store on Maine Street told investigators that a regular customer gave him the two ginger snaps that he then passed on to a Grace Patterson Elementary School fifth-grader, Sgt. Jeff Bassett said in a statement.

The fifth-grader made regular stops to the convenience store, and the clerk would give him small food items, Bassett said.

The student shared one of the cookies with three others at lunch Monday, not knowing it had marijuana in it, said Vallejo City Unified School District spokeswoman Tish Busselle.

Three of the students were taken to Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center and released Monday evening. All four were OK Tuesday, Busselle said.

The Vallejo Police Department said at least six students may have eaten the cookie, though Busselle said the district has identified only four.

The store clerk told police that he did not know the individually packaged cookies had marijuana, Bassett said. The packages were not clearly marked, Bassett said.

A Patterson Elementary teacher discovered the cookies contained marijuana after she read the label of the uneaten cookie when her students became sick.

The cookies’ ingredients are listed as sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, cannabis butter, whole eggs, organic flour, ground ginger, vanilla beans, baking soda and sea salt.

 

I’m calling shenanigans on this fifth grader here.  First off, what ten year old shares two cookies with 6 friends with leftovers for evidence?   Those ginger snaps never would have made it to school if this wasn’t a setup.  Sharing sucks.   Secondly, aren’t ten year olds onto smack by now?  There isn’t enough weed in 2 cookies to get 6 kids with a high tolerance sick.   They blow lines off their cubbies in homeroom these days.   It’s pretty clear what’s going on here.  The fifth grader has been selling weed to the clerk for years.  The clerk pays him with “small food items”.  Everyone’s happy.   But then, the clerk gives his little delinquent the cookies, which, unbeknownst to him, contain weed.   The fifth grader thinks that he now has some competition in the Calco Mart weed trade and decides he’s gonna show who’s boss.  He then poisons his 6 buddies and claims  it was from the cookies.  Competition vanquished.  Vallejo cops are retards

Breasts and Milk anyone?

A Virginia woman has been sentenced to 18 months supervised probation for taking off her clothes in a Maryland convenience store and sexually harassing patrons and employees.

Twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Riegler of Accomack County also agreed not to return to Maryland as a condition of probation.

She was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to assault and disturbing the piece.

Police said on Dec. 18, Riegler danced naked around a Royal Farms store in Hebron, making sexual gestures and propositioning customers and employees.

Riegler apologized during her trial, saying she was not in the right state of mind.

I was actually a little concerned when I decided to start this blog that I wouldn’t have enough to write about. I mean, I see plenty of wacky stuff, but enough for a blog? Then God smiled upon me like Scott Baio at an 18 year-old homecoming queen from Idaho. Thanks, buddy. Talk to ya Sunday. This was the first story I came across after I put convenience store in the magic Google box. The first, honest (me and God are tight now, I wouldn’t break one of his rules on our first day together).
Anyway, I am setting the over/under on this chick at 250 lbs, and taking the over. The state of Maryland took a 22 year-old chick with loose morals and said “No thanks, keep your naked ass out of our state and if we see you, we will toss your ass in the clink”. Have you been to Baltimore?, seen “The Wire”? I thought dancing naked in a Royal Farms and propositioning young hoppers picking up burners was a class in school. Has to be gross.

Welcome aboard

Have you ever walked into a convenience store, took a look around, and wondered exactly what the hell goes on here? Probably not. Well, I am here to fill that void in your life. I am a salesman (really a delivery driver, don’t let my boss fool you) who spends 8-10 hours a day in various convenience stores trying to grab a piece of the pie. Yes, it is as mundane as it sounds. Except for those moments that leave you shaking your head, looking around, and wondering, is it me? or it it them? This blog will celebrate those moments. Enjoy