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After Thieves Rob Man of Valuable Coin Collection, Guess What They Did Next…

File this story under “world’s dumbest criminals.” This one’s a doozy.

Three thieves broke into an Oregon man’s shed and stole tools, two safes with approximately 50 to 60 lbs. of silver and jewelry inside and a coin collection worth thousands of dollars. However, instead of cashing in on the full value of their ill-gotten goods, the thieves first headed over to the nearest Coinstar machine and tried to exchange the coins for cash.

A Coinstar machine. Thousands of dollars worth of rare, valuable coins. No joke. Did they at least get a sizable payout? Nope: they got a whopping $450.

Making matters worse, police say one of the thieves is the son of the man they robbed.

“The crooks were idiots, just simply an idiot,” said Dan Johnson, Sr., the owner of the coins.

Deputies said Dan Johnson, Jr., along with two other suspects, broke into the outbuildings on Christmas. Yes, Dan Johnson Jr. robbed his father on Christmas day, stole jewelry, silver and his coin collection and then tried to jam the coins into a Coinstar machine.

See the FOX 12 Oregon update:

“To not know the value of what they had taken, just to get pocket change for it. Makes me feel good he was a stupid person and didn’t realize what he had,” Johnson said.

Yeah, he’s talking about his son.

After Thieves Rob Man of Valuable Coin Collection, Guess What They Did NextThis guy.

The Coinstar machine wouldn’t take some 500 silver quarters the burglars had stolen; they carted those off to the bank, KPTV reports.

Luckily, Johnson has been able to recover portions of his collection.

Once the theft was reported, the bank contacted Johnson and returned the coins. As for the ones they put in the machine, Johnson — with the help of some friends — has been able to recover portions of his collection by going through the coins deposited in the Coinstar receptacle.

“It was an inheritance, which made it even worse because I lost an inheritance that was meant to go forward for my children and grandchildren,” he said.

And it’s safe to say that Johnson is just a little peeved with his son (who’s still at large) and has no problem with the idea of Jr. being put behind bars.

“I feel much better and I‘m hoping that they’ll be off the street for a long time. I don’t want them to be around anybody else,” Johnson said.

(h/t Newser)

Comments (208)

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:04am

    If I was the father, I would be vastly disappointed and deeply saddened.

    Like all fathers, I have cradled my daughters when they were babies, fed them, and changed their nappies. And wondered how great their lives might be. Fantasized about their future.

    And I’m sure he was just such a father.

    And then this.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:37am

      It just makes you sick, doesn’t it?

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:22am

      I’m sure he was saddened and disappointed ..a long time ago. But he knows who is son has become. That’s probably one of the reasons why he has a safe, I bet.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:25am

      You just do the best you can, love them and hope when they are old enough to make their own choices, they make the right ones. Very sad, but hopefully his son will have time to reflect in jail and make some life changes when he gets out. Drugs make you stupid.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:44am

      @Grandma

      Yes you do your best and you hope that you are doing things right. I gaze at their little faces in wonderment, but I know that they will grow up all too soon and become their own women. The die, as they say, are cast.

      If I wasn’t an atheist I would spend a lot of time praying.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 6:54am

      “Dice”, I meant. Plural.

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    • drago
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:48am

      Hmmmm, didnt i see this guys son down on wall street humping a tree, and crapping on a cop?………..Like they say, you can chose your friends, but not your family……

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:51am

      It is called Meth.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:32am

      Bet the kid was never spanked.

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    • HKS
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:33am

      Another fine product of our gubmnet educational system.

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    • Roberto G. Vasquez
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:59am

      @NZKIWI

      When my son started to go bad when a senior in HS, I conned him into enlisting in the Marine Corps. The USMC did in fact make a man out of him and he’s been a great (and grateful) son ever since!

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:34am

      I bet he was home from an OWS event!!

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  • Copper Catfish
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:30am

    What a dolt!

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:09am

    Sorry I know its stereotyping ..But what sane grown man wears earnings ..If you would have shown me his picture, and asked for a description ..I would have said …Idiot…

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:49pm

      And it looks like he left a little chili dribbled on his chin.

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    • deloclem
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:42pm

      Not just earrings! He has grommets in his ear lobes as well!

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    • deloclem
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:44pm

      Not just earrings! He has grommets in his ear lobes as well.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:13pm

      My son is a sane grown man and has earrings that are big. He’s a good father and good citizen and runs his own successful business. A Christian trying to emulate Jesus would not judge people by their earrings.

      I thought he looked like a druggie because he was so skinny and the look in his eyes. Not by his apparel.

      1 Samuel 16:7
      But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

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  • BubbaT
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:21am

    Well aren’t most thieves idiots?

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    • Rob Adkerson
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:01am

      No. There is overlap, but all idiots are not thieves, and all thieves are not idiots. Take several members of the house, the senate, and the administration for instance. Many are idiots, many are thieves, but some of the thieves are quite brilliant in their theft.

      (Realized after writing this you said ‘most.’)

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    • RIGEL_ORION
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:39am

      It’s hard to say really. I think the statement that most thieves that get caught are idiots would be more accurate.

      The good/great thieves are most likely caught much less frequently and their crimes are much more intricate and difficult to prove. Given this fact, it’s hard to say that most thieves are dumb. Personally, I think you have to be rather smart to get elected to Congress.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:45am

    Nuts!

    Its all going to be worthless soon enough. They’ll have a real good laugh about this someday soon.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:35am

      No…real silver will go up in value because it is a precious metal. Even the crappy copper pennies will be worth a little more.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:44am

      @ Baddoggy, too true. Silver especially is ready to go sky high. Especially when you realize that gold is at a high but proper price and silver should be 1/16 of that value but trades at a fraction of that. That silver will skyrocket in price. And copper is already skyrocketing, my family is in the electrical contracting business, so I hear about that all the time.

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    • McNamara
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:04pm

      Brass and lead are precious metals too.

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    • nmax
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:36pm

      I doubt any kid creepy and disgusting enough to do something like this to his father who collected these coins at great sacrifice likely over many years….he was also ripping off his brothers & sisters and their children (grandkids)…this guy is a real jerk and likely a druggie….judging by the pictures…. This is not the kind of thing you laugh about later…. this showed real moral bankruptcy which doesn’t necessarily have morality spring out of it suddenly just because somebody grows a few years older…. Unfortunately too many parents are letting the culture raise their kids….if you can get your kids in private school do it…I did with my daughter for 5 years and believe me she is nothing like her peers…I kept her out of the “culture at large”…and she is a sweet, decent old-fashioned firl and I couldn’t be more proud of her! I had a large video library of decent movies and kept her away from TV programming which is helping in the depraving of America….also keep them out of “Health” classes in school….this is where a lot of the evil is done….sex / drugs / also keep them out of any drug or alcohol program or bullying….these are the doorways the anti-American folk creep into schools to destroy morals and decency…and promote PCness.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:02pm

      CHIEFGEORGE “Their silver and their gold will avail them nothing in the terrible day of the LORD !

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  • ZAP
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:40am

    MUST be democrats

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    • Rob Adkerson
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:02am

      Yes, because republicans can do no evil…

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:24am

      Independents can do no evil too.

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    • Your Name Here
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:43am

      Rob Adkerson
      Yes, because republicans can do no evil…

      Wrong. Politicians are all thieves. Democrats believe it’s justified and a right to take from anyone they deem unworthy.
      Conservatives have morals and live by them. Liberals have no morals and ridicule anyone that does have them.

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  • Bombgod1
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:35am

    And it all starts with the piercings. Earrings, the gateway drug.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:41am

      Plus greed mixed with utter stupidity – the beginning of a Progressive Politician

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    • timej31
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:46am

      Progressive indeed.

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    • Wayne
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:53am

      I always question a male who has big earrings and want to look stupid.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 8:48am

      If my son ever gets an earring…it will be followed by a hole in his face where I yank it out.

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    • Homeschoolmama
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:27pm

      I’m a woman with multiple piercing(not just in my ears) and tattoos. I’m also conservative, educated, intelligent, law-abiding mostly (I live in CA and have guns), church going, married to my high school sweetheart for 14 yrs., home-schooling my kids, honest, respectful, hardworking, and likeable. Please stop discriminating based on piercings and tattoos. They are apart of our culture now and you will over look many quality people if that is your measure of someone’s worth.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:15pm

      Isn’t smoking cigarettes the gateway drug? I‘ve never known a druggie that didn’t smoke cigs.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:35am

    Okay I will bite.. why on earth would you put a valuable coin collection in a shed.. maybe Dad and Son are really related after all… You won’t see my coin collection a my shed safe or not!!

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:48am

      Actually it’s kind of genius.

      If I was a robber looking for rare valuables, the last place I’d check is the shed… Who would guess it would be your ****** son to burn you?

      And with the way things are today, gold isn’t safe in a safety deposit box.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:53am

      Sorry for not being PC Blaze….

      Not “ ****** ” but “ man of limittal means of functioning cognitive awerness ”.

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    • JawaJam
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:15am

      It might have been more like an outbuilding or a workshop.

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:43am

      abbygirl…. exactly

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    • Cat
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:36am

      Abby >

      Because his mom is his sister and his brother is his father …

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:29am

    All you have to do is look at the picture. He is a poster child for “idiot of the month”.

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • String Bean
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:18am

    Don’t get cremated when you die, Johnson, Sr. That dumbass son of yours, that you raised, and his friends will snort your ashes thinking its coke.

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  • chasbronson
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:17am

    Poster boy to bring back the beatings at the post. SERIOUSLY.

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:14am

    Is this the Ron Paul supporter that called in today? lol… Had to say it. …just kidding.

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  • BlessedONE333
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:11am

    We told this kid and his friends that they were born as descendents from monkeys then we are shocked when they act like animals.
    We told them that ‘church’ was stupid and took the Scriptures out of school so he dismissed the truth in the Bible and plunged into the depth of despair in a life of drugs, satanic music and hate.
    We reap what we sow.

    America was the moral compass in the world and now we lost that in the last few generations.

    In 2012 we MUST fall to our knees and be humble of heart and PRAY that our creator God would forgive us. THEN we must turn from sin and teach truth and prepare to fight and debate the wicked at every opportunity… unto death!

    Ephesians 6:12
    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

    God help us and guide us in 2012

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    • DcBs Blaze
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:33am

      Amen.

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    • tbl10
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:54am

      Amen to that. Unfortunately only a small percentage will do that. The sand in the hour glass is running thin, sure wouldn’t want to live in California or along the East Coast when it runs out. You reap what you sow. Via Con Dios

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    • freedomofspeech
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:27am

      what is that a pic of on your profile pic? and to add to your post. the boy just taking from the 1% (his father) because he is the 99% (son).

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    • teebubba
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:57am

      I‘m a big believer in American exceptionalism but we’ve never been the “moral compass of anything.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:02am

      Please quote your scripture in church. Making like religion is the answer to all the problems in the world. Religion is the root of most crimes against man in the world. People like you who think that because they spout scripture that makes them more moral than the next.
      This kid is an idiot, no religion is going to help that. It is not the absents of religion that did him in, it was the failure of parenting that is the cause. You can’t blame God or the lack of God for such things.
      You must begin to take blame for your failures, because God might forgive you, but society will not.

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    • edwinmcarter
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:26am

      Amen

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    • mowspower
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:55am

      MACPAPPY, you are correct “religion” is not the answer. However, Faith is the answer to ALL of life’s challenges. In order for it to work one must start at the beginning and stay on the path. The path is not easy. In fact it is very difficult at times. It still works.

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    • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
      Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:14am

      Add my voice to the chorus of ‘Amens’ coming from these replies. Could not have said it better myself, Blessedone333. God bless and thanks!

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  • Warm In The Desert
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:04am

    A tale regarding a bad son is not news. Nor is leaving a safe or two in a shed considered wise.

    The untold story here should be….
    Don’t take your spare change to Coinstar. Understand they charge 10% and take all coinage. Doubt this Coinstar machine will alert you just deposited a 1933 Gold Double Eagle in mint condition worth possibly Millions.

    As we speak…Mason Jars containing years of “spare change” are being spread and examined in an unnamed room in my abode, protected by two former SAS members…..One never knows

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    • rukdnme13
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:49pm

      Warm, Coinstar machines REJECT silver coins, guess they’re too stupid to realize those are the ones of value!! :-)

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:03am

    Why don’t you know that it was his fathers tradition to hide the CHRISTmass presents in the shed for Jr to find, and wasn‘t daddy nice to buy presents for Jr’s friends So-solist and Com-u-nyst as well?
    Meanwhile back at the Occupy camp, Jr. Got mic checked into a leadership position due to his unselfish contribution to the common good.

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  • SDM-Shepherd
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:52pm

    they should have never left their occupy protest.

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    • lodgerat
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:05am

      His father should smack that smirk off his NoBama looking face. Human waste at it’s best.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:37pm

    Well at least one parent who has no problem disciplining his son and doesn’t protect his little angel.

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    • maccow
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:31am

      Sadly, it looks to me like dad is going to let the state finish his poor job of raising his son. I‘m sure he will find plenty of better role models than his own father in the state’s corrections system. This dad lost a few coins at Christmas but he lost his son a long time ago. Bad father award recipient.

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    • RBSWORLD
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 10:10pm

      NO NO NO!! YOU, don’t know the father or the kid. Some times there is nothing a father can do. Some kids just have to learn things the hard way. “I HAVE ONE OF THOSE”!!!!

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  • lel2007
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:36pm

    The ear rings and growth on his chin says it all.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:00am

      That his face looks like some ******’s “landing strip”?
      Sorry, had to go there…

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    • His_Way
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:20am

      Let me guess, his pants start hangin at his knees, his arms are riddled in tats, and his record of unemployment will be encouraged with free Obamacare!

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  • diablosho
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:35pm

    METH folks. GUARANTEED. I’ve witnessed this first hand by some tweaker “buddies” (past life), and Coinstar is THEIR BEST FRIEND. This guy needs help, or this will happen again (with a MUCH worse outcome for all involved).

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    • Firefighter 538
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:27am

      He breaks into my place he can get all the help he can stand, one round at a time!

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    • DcBs Blaze
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:32am

      Sad, but I have seen this sickness also in the past. Meth is known as a devil even among its users; however, it is the drug of choice for many youth. What does this say about our youth, our society, and ourselves as individuals? I fear the answers.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 2:00am

      I never used either, but from what I hear, meth makes heroine seem like health food.

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    • His_Way
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:09am

      What does this say about the legalization of drugs, gateway drugs? I won’t allow their “drugstore on every corner”.

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:35pm

    Dear Dad,
    You didn’t do your job. Now taxpayers have to.Please don’t whine about what this “cost” you. If it were up to me you would do time for unleashing your “precious” into society.

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:34pm

    He’s got those Osama ears. Thats not good

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  • William Hemenway
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:34pm

    Meth heads or oxy junkies

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:30pm

    That’s funny!

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:27pm

    I’ll bet ya he is part of the 99%!!!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:45pm

      This guy is what is technically known as a 99th percentile idiot.

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  • smokey888x2
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:27pm

    Public education.

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    • lel2007
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:38pm

      He may have attended, probably chewed on the books, but educated – no.

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    • drago
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 7:50am

      Make that “pubic” education.If you dont want to raise a moron, keep your “willie” away from the “pubic” area……

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