He picked up a gold-plated statue of Tara, the Hindu goddess of universal compassion valued at $39,940, and ran out the door, the Daily News reports.
A store manager followed Rotolo, who, at 6-8, was hard to miss. Someone alerted an NYPD patrol car nearby. As the police approached, Rotolo reportedly stopped, handed Tara back to the manager and apologized.
According to the News, he remains in jail held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Art is not of actual allegedly stolen Tara
They have $40,000 statues just laying about?
ReplyDeleteI hope they have compassion for him.
Why should they? He's been a career criminal for 30 years, and had no problem with stealing something from them. Because he apologized? Yeesh. If there hadn't been a cop car nearby, he would have kept going.
ReplyDeleteA career criminal is out of jail. Oh, I forgot, this is the People's Dumbocratic Republic of New York. In a civilized state such as Texas, they'd take care of him properly.
ReplyDeleteTwo car killers recently got slaps on the wrist.
Bill, opponent of government "justice"
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ReplyDeleteLooks like the invisible hand of the market has successfully closed several residential apartments in the EV for the near future.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteMarkets include the rule of law, not criminal activity. From all accounts, it appears that the horrific event on 2nd Ave. and 7th St. might have been due to criminal activity that would not be countenanced in a legal system, either the one we have, or a better one based on common law, not statute law.
It does seem crazy that there is such a valuable object sitting around a fairly large store where the employees are generally behind the counter. Also, this is a chain of discount furniture stores, odd they would have such a valuable thing in there amongst the inexpensive fake distressed wood cabinets.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering what Bill might have to say about this. After all, regulations only reduce profitability and promote monopolies. Right? The market alone should decide which contractors will prosper and which will not.
ReplyDeleteI would love to speak to the appraiser.
ReplyDeleteto Anonymous at 4:21....
ReplyDeleteBecause she is the Hindu goddess of universal compassion. That there's some irony, son.
I'm an antique dealer for nearly 25 years and I was surprised a piece listed at that value was in the store I have not been in but did a peek into the window and can tell you that it is not a high end shop. Still I thought I would take a look at their website and furniture pieces and various decorative items not so unlike this nearly stolen statue sold all for under $500. Why then the nearly $40,000 price tag on this statue? Hope to cash in on insurance? Someone thought this would change the crime from petty theft to grand larceny? I dislike thieves as much as the next guy but some either reported the value of this statue of someone is playing up this for personal gain.
ReplyDeleteCon Ed (a horrible company IMO) is a regulated monopoly-crookopoly. I don't own the stock and never will.
ReplyDeleteIn a free market, there would be competition, not gubment regulation.
In Chicago around 1900 there were severak suppliers of electricity. Then the regulators took over, prices went up and soivice (Jersey pron.) went down.
Bill
That was not a real statue of Tara, the goddess of compassion, that was stolen. If it had been real, then more compassion would have been bestowed all around.
ReplyDeleteBill the Libertarian whatever
ReplyDeleteThe US Energy Information Administration counts the retail price of electricity in NY the second highest in the US. Only the island state of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific, is higher.
Why? because Enron spent more than $200,000 on NY's legislature prior to Pataki's deregulation of NY's electric market in the late 1990s. The result of Pataki's deregulation was the cost of electricity almost doubled overnight in NY and hasn't come down since.
Further, the U.S. Department of Energy data shows that between 1997 and 2011, increases in retail electric prices were significantly higher in states with deregulated electric markets than in regulated states.
Another miracle of deregulation brought to us by your invisible hand of the market.
Regulations are needed on services which are a necessity to modern life. When private corporations have no oversight its called the recession, depression, etc... We would have even less fresh air and clean water in this country without oversight and regulations. Deregulation only comes about when big money buys a senator or congress person and like good hired help they proceed to remove regulations and corporate profits soar while safety and workers health are put in jeopardy and we all have to pay more. History has show this time and time again since the 1980's. Maybe people think the word "free" justifies anything when it does not.
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