New Jersey firefighter shoplifts $7.98, loses job

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ATLANTIC CITY - A New Jersey firefighter will lose his $78,096-a-year job after being convicted of shoplifting $7.98 worth of items.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a Superior Court judge in Atlantic County denied Ashton Funk’s appeal of a lower court ruling on Thursday. He’s required to forfeit his jobs as a firefighter and lifeguard.

Funk wasn’t on-duty as a Margate firefighter or member of the beach patrol at the time of the offense in August 2015. But prosecutors wanted him dismissed from the job he’s held since 2011, saying a public employee is subject to dismissal if convicted of an offense involving dishonesty.

Prosecutors say Funk passed two long lines at a Wawa convenience store then left without paying for sunflower seeds, a breakfast sandwich, Gatorade and coffee.

Read more: http://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2016/12/15/nj-firefighter-shoplifts-loses-job/95502578/

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1. sunflower seeds, breakfast sandwich, gatorade, and coffee all for just $7.98? that's a steal!

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2. Most certainly it is.

However, the question that this article begs is
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"Where's the fire?"

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3. apparently he's got the fire in his belly.

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4. No sympathy.

He was so arrogant that he thought he was entitled and would face no consequences for stealing and cavalierly breaking the laws that didn't suit him. He acted like he was better than all the other customers waiting in line and with indifference to the losses he cost the store owner, as if theft was his normal M.O. and this was not his first offense, and unlikely to be his last.