In West City, Illinois, police were a bit surprised when they arrested a shoplifter at Wal-Mart. It was not the fact that he had curiously chosen butter and a sofa cover (or the stolen computer power pack they found later). It was the fact that Steven Poole is the Rev. Steven Poole of St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Christopher and St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sesser, Illinois.
Father Poole is now charged with with two felony theft counts. The butter cost $3.22 and the sofa cover was $60.
He is not the first man of the cloth to be caught in the act of theft or worse recently, here and here and here.
Of course, he may be just following the sermon of Father Jones in England, here.
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All theives should be caught and prosecuted. This story only hit the news because he was a prist.
This is sad, I would say that at least he wasn’t a pedophile. But, my mind thinks why? Why the Sofa Cover, Butter and Computer Power Pack?
“Scratch a liar, find a thief…”
I am not excusing the priest but those small communities in Southern Illinois have lost many jobs and many people are living below the poverty line. He probably does not get much money in the weekly collections. Look what AIG among others did. Did anybody go to prison?
I hope he knew better than to confess.
“at least he wasn’t a pedophile”
LOL!!
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“Why the Sofa Cover, Butter and Computer Power Pack?”
Maybe Rev. Poole believes in taking an eclectic approach to shoplifting.
I think those might be elements used in creating a bomb.
“Sofa Cover, Butter and Computer Power Pack”
I think we’re still safe. If the list would have included a pair of size 6 tennis shoes, I think it would be time to worry.
True. I forgot about the size 6 tennis shoes.
But if his Name had been Father Nelson, and he stolen Hershey Bars and Mounds one might need to worry.
That would not have been a bomb, that would have been another type of explosion.
butter and sofa cover, sounds a little hinkey to me.
The article said he has a prior charge so I suspect he’s either a klepto or has the Robin Hood disease.
Just because you are a man of the cloth doesn’t mean you can’t be a klepto!
kathy:
“Just because you are a man of the cloth doesn’t mean you can’t be a klepto!”
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It is an irrelevant factor indeed –just like his gender.
I am afraid to ask what this man of the cloth was going to do with the Butter??
Well rafflaw,
There is always the Hershey Bar, the Milky Way and the Butterfinger …..and all done for the satisfaction of Father Nelson while instructing in the missionary position…..
Wouldn’t it follow that “a man of the cloth” would be interested in “material” things?
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rafflaw–
“I am afraid to ask what this man of the cloth was going to do with the Butter??”
As Paula Deen of the Food Network might say: Everything’s beddah with buddah.