I was reading an AP article about Dr. Phil Guests.  In this article it states that a couple who was on the show in the Fall is in hot water with the Secret Service and members of a multi agency Fraud Task Force stormmed the Eaton’s house.  The seized toys, a car and other unlisted belongings.  Now here is the kicker.  This family went on the Dr. Phil show, bragged about stealing $100,000 worth of merchandise, video taped themselves shoplifting from stores with their three children in tow, and then admitted on television that they sell the stolen merchandise on Ebay.

Let me start by saying that the Eaton’s are not all that bright!  They had a good thing going for them.  They were making $100,000 with little work.  Yes there is risk but they were obviously willing to take it.  This part of their plan was semi bright but when they went on a nationally broadcasted show and bragged about getting away with it they had to have known that they  would set some flags soring.  Was the local police department and all of the people in their town just suposed to say, “good for the Eatons?”  How did they not know that by going on a national television show such as the Dr. Phil Show that it would not be long before their little plan began to ravel?  I just do not understand the criminal mind and why it is so stupid!

I hope that they loose everything have to pay money to the stores the merchandise came from and go down!  It is people like this who take things that they are not intitled to receiev who have driven up the cost of everything in this great nation.  I can perhaps excuse a package of diapers or milk being stolen.  Only if the mother has no money and really needs them.  But to make an entire Ebay business out of your shoplifting is just worng.  You and I pay for that each and every day!  We pay for that in taxes, we pay for that in the stores and we pay for that on ebay.

I love ebay as much as you do!  I just think twice when a deal looks too good to be true.  Imagine if these people were to put their minds to something constructive.  Perhaps they should have to spend their time in jail helping stores better reduce the shrink levels.  Perhaps they should spend their time in jail with someone who steals from them.  When you shoplift you are stealing from the people in this country who work so hard for the things that they have.

Either way the Eatons are most likely going to loose their children and as far as I am concerned nothing is worth this punishment.  No amount of money would matter when the end result is the fact that I have endangered my children and their lives as they know it.  So I will sit here in my rented house, with my run down cars and my dreams.  Nothing would be worht me loosing my babies!  NOTHING!!

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