We have two more felons undone by social media habits. Logan Brooke Larrimore, 18, and Farren Marie Lane, 18, decided to break into a South Carolina water park and then posted pictures on Snapchat of themselves enjoying the slides and Italian ices. It did not take long for the police to track them down and they now facing felony charges.
Larrimore and Lane are charged with third-degree burglary after they admitted to jumping the fence at Myrtle Beach Waves Water Park around 4am Saturday. They also admitted to eating $8 worth of Italian ices. The amount of the ill-gotten goods is trivial but they are being charged over the break in. One of the people that they had on their Snapchat list turned them in.
While I would expect leniency in sentencing for first offenders, the law actually allows for a ten year sentence:
(A) A person is guilty of burglary in the third degree if the person enters a building without consent and with intent to commit a crime therein.(B) Burglary in the third degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years for conviction on a first offense and for not more than ten years for conviction of a second offense according to the discretion of the Court.
No comment about the reverend CNN that you consider legitimate “press” ? JT do you not consider a msm outlet’s blackmail of a citizen legally distrurbjng?
The smart money says it will be plea-bargained to criminal trespass and petit larceny.
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They should have all social media access removed for one year. They’ll get so depressed without their technology-enabled, self-esteem-boosting, electronic crack that they’ll likely take care of themselves.
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
So one out of three combined with social media is all it takes in modern times.
It’s crappy to be them. They may be 18 but they both have geraniums in their craniums.
Jeez, these two are 18 year olds! Community service should suffice – not going to a for-profit prison which taxes the state.
Damn, when I look back at all the stupid stuff I did at that age I would still probably be in jail!!
“Natacha” seems to have a thing for blondes – bottled or otherwise – very amusing.
not going to a for-profit prison which taxes the state.
The share of state and federal inmates whose incarceration is contracted out to private companies is currently 8%. You might work on not being a fanatic on continuous loop. People might confuse you will Jill or Natacha.
Bleached! What else is there to say? If they put them in the slammer, they won’t be able to do to their roots, and then the world will see them in their natural state. First, they’re dumb enough to break into a water park after it closed, but then, secondly, they created a record of their crimes.
So, there are no natural blondes in your world? It would be interesting to see just how natural you are. Well, maybe not…
Not the point, Jim, not the point at all: it’s all about not being true to oneself, about buying into the Barbie doll image created by others, not being an individual, not establishing and living by one’s own value system.
So you get to decide if these two are being true to themselves? Just because you choose to live a certain way does not make others inferior. You seem to be a unhappy person. I would look inward before outward on others.
No. When you alter your appearance to resemble a standard exemplified by a doll, there’s something wrong with you. Why fake yellow hair, anyway? Along with fake tans, the wearer usually looks ridiculous, but she has bought into the fashion standard that you must be blonde and tan to be attractive. Most times, there’s little difference between the shade of skin and hair color, and there’s the inevitable dark roots that make it look like a bird took a dump on top of their head. Take a good look at someone like Betsy DeVos, for example. Fake yellow hair highlights sallow skin tones, and usually doesn’t even look good. Then, there’s exposing as much skin as possible, and baring their arms, even flabby, fat ones, and even in the winter time. Even thin people sometimes have flabby and fat upper arms, but it’s the new standard, regardless of whether it looks good or is appropriate for the occasion. Sometimes, these women look like they are wearing a bathing suit top. It really says a lot when you have a round table with men wearing long sleeved shirts, ties and coats and bleached females sitting there, bare armed, skirts above the knee, showing a lot of cleavage, pretending to be qualified to opine about important issues on an equal footing. Check out Fox News and how absurdly inappropriate the females look compared to the men. They demean their own credibility by their appearance. That someone alters her appearance to look like a Barbie doll says a lot about the person. Totally contrary to the 1970’s when women refused to get perms or straighten their hair, as the case may be, they refused to bleach their hair, wear girdles or even shave their armpits because they didn’t buy into standards set by someone else. No high heels, either. These little dummies deserve the maximum penalty because they are little dummies. Their fake hair color is just more evidence of poor judgment and lack of insight.
Natacha is trying to tell you that she’s unattractive in addition to being obnoxious.
They’re young enough to have naturally blonde hair. They don’t look like Judy Woodruff.
@JT
“We have two more felons undone by social media habits.”
If I were a law school professor in the country that puts in cages more people per capita than any other country in the world, including North Korea and China, I think I’d be a little more circumspect than to characterize as “felons” two teenaged girls who have yet to be convicted of any crime whatsoever.
Speaking of felonies and the aptly named US criminal justice system, see attorney Harvey Silverglate’s sobering book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent:
“In the fall of 1989 the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, and two years later the Soviet Union itself was no more, replaced by Russia and a number of newly independent nations. Communism and its accompanying show trials, gulags, and politically oriented prosecutions, along with the faux legal system that undergirded it, supposedly disappeared.
“Perhaps the most chilling quote of the Soviet era came from Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the secret police, who bragged, ‘Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.’ Surely, that never could be the case in America; we’re committed to the rule of law and have the fairest justice system in the world.
“Civil libertarian attorney Harvey Silverglate begs to differ, and his newest book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, is a frightening reminder that the federal ‘justice’ system in this country seems to have picked up where the Soviets left off. We suffer from a combination of vague, expansive laws, the drug war, and prosecutors who are ruthless, relentless, and who face no consequences for their own lawbreaking. That has turned federal criminal law into a conviction machine, sweeping up the innocent along with the guilty.
“The very expansiveness of federal law turns nearly everyone into lawbreakers. Like the poor Soviet citizen who, on average, broke about three laws a day, a typical American will unwittingly break federal law several times daily. Many go to prison for things that historically never have been seen as criminal.”
https://fee.org/articles/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-feds-target-the-innocent/
“Civil libertarian attorney Harvey Silverglate begs to differ, and his newest book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent,
89% of the population of the incarcerated is to be found in state prisons and local jails. They’re not there because they committed exotic federal crimes. The majority are there for violent offenses and another 30% for burglary, auto theft, grand larceny, &c.
“Perhaps the most chilling quote of the Soviet era came from Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the secret police, who bragged, ‘Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.’ Surely, that never could be the case in America; we’re committed to the rule of law and have the fairest justice system in the world.
You’re quoting Stalin’s secret police chief to make a point about American criminal justice. You’re not only a gassy bore, you’re quite adept at making an idiot of yourself.
Community service
When I was in high school, my friends did a lot of stupid things no worse than this. I don’t think anybody ever went to jail – just some good tongue-lashings.
What a silly, entitled thing to do when they felt the need for adventure. They likely just thought of it as a prank.
It is true that they exposed the park to massive liability. If anything had gone wrong and they’d gotten hurt, the park would have been likely sued in this age of no responsibility.
The punishment should fit the crime. A 10 year sentence for trespassing and stealing $8 worth of dessert seems excessive. On the other hand, if one of them had gotten hurt, that paltry crime could have translated into the park going out of business.
Whatever the sentence would be for a first time offender adult breaking into a convenience store and stealing $8 worth of merchandise should be their sentence, so that it’s fair.
It is true that they exposed the park to massive liability. If anything had gone wrong and they’d gotten hurt, the park would have been likely sued in this age of no responsibility.
No, the insurance company would have insisted on an out-of-court settlement.
Right. If you get sued enough, or threatened with enough lawsuits, you lose your business, regardless of how many times you settle out of court. Your insurance goes up, or you lose your insurance, or maybe there is a clause in your insurance policy that doesn’t cover it. Or you get sued over and above your coverage. Or the news kills your reputation as a safe family park and business goes South. Or a lot of times your insurance refuses to fight the charges, and settles every time, and then either drops you or your premiums skyrocket, without giving you a chance to fight in court, because lawsuits are so very expensive.
This is the real scary part, the actions of larceny plus burglary AND then being stupid enough to put it on social media. 🙄
It would be classified as 3d degree criminal trespass in New York, and, I think, in most places.
can’t tell if they entered a “building” from the poorly written article. jumping a fence is trespassing in my state.
It wasn’t an adolescent prank. They’re full adults under the law and they were our at 4 AM. . Unless they are developmentally challenged and can prove it, they are old enough to have known better. It wasn’t free slices and a couple of ices, it was breaking and entering and stealing. Under the circumstances is still considered burglary, no matter how little they stole. If they were drunk, that’s another charge, not an excuse. Jail time might make them grow up, though there’s no guarantee.
If they enterred a closed, locked and gated area they should be prosecuted. If their records are clean they should do community service and if they remain without incident the criminal act should be expunged after a few years
Then there’s the case of Alexander Bond. Out of jail & posting anti-cop rants on facebook. Alex shoots an NYPD cop in the head. Alex & NYPD cop are dead…. July 4th.
Their testimony to the jury panel will be: ” We were a bit drunk and got there late. It was odd that we got in. So we water slided. The ice cream was available. We did not break into the cooler. The last time we were there the ice cream was free. We are sorry. Please let us go. The prosecutor was a felon when he porked a dog in high school at the fairgrounds. “
And: …”the last time we were there and were leaving, the guy at the gate said: come back anytime and I will have an ice cream waiting.”
Maybe some community service time will encourage these girls to grow up.
They’re already adults. They should Have grown up already. They need jail time.
Maybe a bit. But it’s not like they carjacked somebody or robbed a bank.
“They’re already adults. They should Have grown up already.” Unfortunately, a lot of people never grow up.
They don’t if they get away with criminal activity because they’re young and stupid.
I’m trying to find some comment to meet the post but jumping a fence, stealing Italian ice and free slides. Maybe some college kids should come out of their safe space, drop their hate signs and try some Italian ice.
Did they “enter a building?” Or just use a facility after hours? I think the charge of burglary is ridiculous. This was obviously an adolescent prank. The water park should be glad they didn’t get hurt. If I were the parent I’d sue them for negligence in keeping an “attractive nuisance.” On the other hand, that moniker aptly fits these two “felons.”