Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Woman Loses It After EBT Card Won't Cover Purchase, Slugs Store Clerk: Police
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Call it a postcard from the entitlement culture.

Shelby Parham is a 20-year-old mother of a 1-year-old child who lives in Michigan. Apparently, the mom’s electronics benefits transfer, or EBT, card didn’t have as much money on it as she thought it did.

So, she did what any sensible person whose remaining dole portion wasn’t as large as their purchase was: She apparently knocked out the cashier. In front of her kid. Good parenting there.

According to WJBK-TV in Detroit, the 20-year-old is facing a charge of aggravated assault after she rendered the 49-year-old clerk unconscious at the St. Clair Shores, Michigan, Kroger grocery store on Tuesday.

Parham, police say, was in the self-checkout lane when her EBT card — called a Bridge card in Michigan — didn’t have enough money to cover her purchase.

She asked the clerk for help in deducting some items, which the clerk couldn’t help with at that moment.

“The employee walked away from her. … the defendant was upset and followed her and struck her in the face,” St. Clair Shores Police Detective Gordon Carrier told WJBK.

“The victim did lose consciousness for a bit, and was transported to the hospital for treatment of head injury.”

The cashier was, as of WJBK’s Wednesday report, taking time off from work due to her injuries.

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The incident was caught on the store’s security cameras. As you can see, Parham’s child is in the cart as she decks the cashier:


Carrier told the station that the 20-year-old will now face “a misdemeanor charge. However, it is an enhanced charge of aggravated assault.”

“It’s obviously very clear-cut. There’s no questions as to who’s at fault here,” he added.

The aggravated assault charge carries a one-year sentence if she’s convicted. She’s been released from custody on a $1,000 bond.

The lesson here? According to WJBK, Carrier said he’s “asking the public to take an extra second this holiday season before doing something they will regret.”

“Everybody can be stressed out, right?” he said. “There’s got to be better resolutions than violence.”

Yes, one might indeed say that. One might also note another obvious lesson for the average person: that entitlement culture breeds, well, entitlement.

I would guarantee that 99 percent of the people reading this — and that’s a conservative estimate, really — have had a frustrating experience with customer service somewhere at some point. If you aren’t reading this from prison or while you wait for your parole officer to see you, chances are you haven’t dealt with it by splaying the customer service representative on the floor with a knock upside the head.

In most cases, I would also venture to guess, that frustrating experience with customer service had something to do with goods bought and/or services rendered using money we or someone in our household earned. Not Parham. Her money came from taxpayers.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Black, kid, EBT card, violence. The perfect democrat voter.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Plus a dependent child.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Isn’t she a cuteee!

Big dog

Makes perfect sense

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Decades ago, NYC welfare authorities were putting women into posh hotels, the Waldorf-Astoria, as temporary housing for welfare recipients. Someone asked one such woman how she felt getting free housing at one of the most expensive hotels in the world. She said, the maid service could have been better.

Esquire Magazine gave that a Dubious Achievement Award for the year with the headline, "What do they want? What do they really want?"

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

https://static.onepoliticalplaza.com/upload/2023/12/10/t1-735418-shelby_parham.jpg

That spoiled ugly bi*ch needs tp go on a diet.

WinkyTink Loc: Hill Country, TX

One porkchop over the line, sweet Jesus.

Peaver Bogart Loc: Montana

Before even reading the article, I knew what color the woman is.

son of witless

Looks like a hate crime to me. Different races were involved.

F.D.R.

I'm willing to bet that his woman has never worked a day in her life, was raised by a mother on welfare who was raised by a mother on welfare. Lyndon Johnson's legacy lives on. "Welfare" was supposed to be a temporary safety net not a lifelong family tradition.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I’m willing to bet you’re correct.

facts matter

We need a safety net. That said, we need to spend more on investigation and enforcement to get rid of fakes and scammers. The investment would pay dividends.

microphor Loc: Home is TN

Hope that poor little baby is in the hands of someone who doesn't have an anger problem. I always think "if people will do this in public, what must they be doing behind closed doors".