This guy stole! Plain and simple, he’s an admitted thief. But you know what? He probably won’t be off the team, and he’ll probably pay his fine, maybe get some community service, and that will be that. In the meantime, young kids are watching football, and at least to some, he’s a hero. So, what do you think they’ll see? Maybe they’ll think it’s cool to steal, since DeMarcus Granger did it.
What’s bad is that most news stories I’ve seen have made this to be something terrible for Oklahoma. Hey, what about the store? What will Oklahoma do without their star defensive tackle? Who cares?! This guy put himself, and his team in this situation when he decided to break the law.
Does anyone believe that Granger stole out of necessity? That he needed that jacket so badly, and just couldn’t afford it? Because I don’t. In fact, in my experience, most of those who shoplift have enough money on them when they’re caught to pay for at least most of what they stole.
This problem of shoplifting is just growing and growing. This isn’t the first incident of a famous or at least, semi-famous, person stealing in the news, but that just shows that the problem continues. Anyway, here’s the news take on this…
Oklahoma starting defensive tackle DeMarcus Granger will miss the Fiesta Bowl after being sent home from Arizona following an arrest for shoplifting.
Granger, 21, was arrested Saturday in Tempe after he tried to steal a jacket from the Burlington Coat Factory inside Arizona Mills Mall, Tempe police reported.
“Mr. Granger removed an anti-theft device from a jacket and then concealed the jacket in a bag. He exited the store walking past the cash registers without paying for the jacket,” Mike Horn, a spokesman for the Tempe Police Department, said in a statement.
Granger admitted committing the offense and was booked into the Tempe City Jail on one count of shoplifting, Horn said. He later bonded out of jail.
ESPN – Stoops pulls Granger from Fiesta Bowl following arrest – College Football
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