The Pennsylvania man accused of stealing a Game Boy from a deceased teen's coffin this week has been arrested by police.
Police alleged that 37 year-old Jody Lynn Bennett, stole a "Game Boy" from the coffin of family friend 17 year-old Bradley McCombs, during a wake in Montgomery Township. According to the Tribune-Democrat, the boy's uncle, Robert McCombs Jr., confronted the "family friend" outside the funeral home, and Bennett handed back the Game Boy. When the uncle returned to the wake, he realized that Bennett did not return all of the items he stole: three game cartridges and a "Game Boy Light" were still missing.
Police recovered one of the cartridges but did not locate the other stolen items, according to the Associated Press. Bennett's mother blamed the theft on her son's alcohol and drug problems. He is being held at Indiana County Jail on charges of theft, desecration of a venerated object and abuse of a corpse.
Bradley McCombs died on Christmas morning after he lost control of his SUV and ran into a utility pole.
Sources: AOL News, Tribue-Democrat, Philly.com
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Gotta love the comments here. No worry about innocent until proven guilty, no worry about rehabilitation, nah, just form a mob and lynch. Stand proud, people, you trully are God's gift to this world.
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Rehabilitation means that people like this are allowed to walk the street.
-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-
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It also means less cost to us in taxes. You may want to pay for a bloated and dysfunctional prison system. I do not.
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And of course the call for blood means that the person will get punished, but not treated.. so rather then dealing with the illness that resulted in the theft the person will simply suffer a bit and we will be right back where we started.
Why fix a problem when we can make sure sick people get hurt!
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Why should such a kind favor of fixing the problems of this "person"?
-Ultimately what will do in mankind is a person's fear of their own freedom-
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Because if the person isn't treated, he will just turn around and do something else - perhaps something worse - next time. I don't want to have my taxes raised to pay for the thousands of dollars per year it costs to jail this idiot over and over again. I'd much rather pay the share of a few counseling sessions, which will cost much less and potentially stop him from re-offending.
Anyway, I'm not sure I understand why everyone's upset about this. The family were going to destroy a Gameboy. All this guy did was try to rescue it from burial. I really don't see how this makes him 'sick'. It's not as if he killed the Gameboy's owner. The owner was dead. The family are the sick ones if they think that the dead guy will need a Gameboy while he's rotting away 6ft under.
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Thank god that sick bastard got what he deserve.
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Not yet. Wait until prison, he better not drop the soap...
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Put this worthless fuckhole under the jail.
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