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Nun Robbed in Parking Lot

By Tiffany in Crime & Law, Odd News, Religion on Nov 24, 2009 at 4:49 pm


A man asking for money approached two nuns in a California parking lot.  When the nuns refused to give him money the man made off with sister De Leon’s purse instead. This guy is on Santa’s naughty list for sure.

Sister Mary De Leon was with another nun and had just finished their shopping at the Food 4 Less. They were loading groceries in the trunk of their car when the suspect approached them in broad daylight two weeks ago. Surveillance video captured the crime on tape…

“She was blaming herself for leaving her purse in front of the car,” said Sister Mary Fatima Guevara of the Poverello of Assisi School.

Guevara said De Leon has already forgiven the suspects for the crime.

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  1. Wes
    Nov 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    He's an equal opportunity mugger. Why should their ridiculous costumes automatically exempt them from crime?

  2. Rocky
    Nov 24th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    Only an atheist can find the nobility in theft of an elderly woman.

  3. Wes
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:25 am

    Nobility? Only someone with a prejudice against atheists can make such a ridiculous inference ... and assume that someone who thinks habits are ridiculous must be an atheist.

  4. Rocky
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:36 am

    Only a ridiculous person uses the word "ridiculous" so often.

  5. Ratz
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 4:12 am

    The church has too much money anyway.

  6. wow
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:43 am

    so why wouldn't the nuns just give him the money in the first place? aren't they supposed to help the less fortunate?

  7. PaulVI
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am

    I agree with 'wow'. That would be the appropriate Catholic line of thought.

    Then let the punishment fit the crime, sorta. When caught and convicted, he should receive raps on the knuckles with a ruler, equal in number to the cent value of what he stole. Throw in the cent value of the purse? (JC Penney, $29,99 = 2,999 raps added.) Add jail time, sitting in the front of the cell in student desk, in view of the others. Did I miss anything?

  8. Gauldar
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am

    @Rocky

    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=number+of+atheists+in+prison+stati stics&meta=&aq=f&oq=

    I hope those links are educational to you.

  9. Rocky
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Not particularly. Atheists can be good at manipulating statistics, too. Like with the prison population, almost 20% of prisoners answered religious affiliation as "none." I'll be generous and say that that closely matches the American proportion of agnostics/atheists. Religious affilioation has little to no bearing on the prison population.

    I'd be very interested in the religious affiliation of the purse snatcher.

  10. Wes
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    "Only a ridiculous person uses the word 'ridiculous' so often."

    Wow, got me there. Yet, I'm still waiting for you to explain how I depicted the thief as noble in any way.

  11. Rocky
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Wes, you already had an audience for far too long. You can't even shore up sympathy for an elderly woman who has taken a vow of poverty to pursue helping others, hence the "ridiculous costume."

    Seriously, man, evaluate your life.

  12. pwscott
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    The Rocky and Wes show will be back tomorrow. The topic? Turbans and muslims. :p

  13. Wes
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    Rocky, you seem to have inferred an entire belief system into what I said. Let me explain it to you.

    Thieves don't care who you are. They're jackholes. Why is anyone surprised that a thief would rob a nun? It's no more surprising that a jackhole robbed a woman wearing a habit than if had he robbed anyone else. I never understand why people think it's so unbelievable when a church or a religious figurehead becomes the victim of a crime, because *criminals don't care about people*. Or as I summarized it initially, "Why should their ridiculous costumes automatically exempt them from crime?" Got it now?

    My comments were targeted at the presumed exceptionality of the story, not toward the criminal or the victim. I never said, or even implied, I supported the thief. I never said, or even implied, the nun deserved it. But being a nun doesn't give a person any special protection from crime, so it's no more newsworthy than anyone else getting robbed.

    Read only the words I wrote, Rocky, not the ones you wish I had written.

    Oh, and my life is fine, and my audience is awesome.

  14. OhYes
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Wes: I am in full agreement with you. 99% of these thieves don't care at all as to who they rob and what effect their loss has on them.

    And churches get robbed all the time. The ones here in Chicago are sometimes locked with thick metal chains, and the richer churches have ADT systems installed. It's not because they think the signs are cute, it's because some people are just deprived enough to rob a church.

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