Stolen flamingos found in teen's garage

Submitted by KATU.com Staff on Mon, 2010-02-08 17:51

Peggy Connolly's friends gave her the pink lawn birds as a gift to cheer her up because she is battling cancer. It turned out two teens made off with them.

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Weird

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 18:24.

The whole thing is starting to smell of balloon boy hoax!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:10.

Are you just a downer all the time?

Submitted by mkepp (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 18:32.

Shoot 'em

Submitted by DaveH (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 20:02.

...flamingos? Don't think it's flamingo season yet.

Submitted by Daffy D (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:00.

RABBIT SEASON!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 05:42.

*DUCK* SEASON!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 07:54.

WABBIT SEASON!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 18:41.

If my teen was caught stealing and then storing the flamingos in my garage....i would make him do the dishes for a week and cut his allowance to $125.00 for that week...AND take his cell for a night...but just while he was sleeping. I know...I know a bit harsh..but how are these kids going to learn to act in a responsible manner?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:18.

$125.00/week? WOW.. I used to only get $10/month and had to work my arse off.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:16.

cell phone for a night? How about a year? Your punishment is comic. How about cleaning bed pans in a terminal cancer ward 8 hours a day for a month? How about holding a patients hand for hours on end while they writhe in pain caused by their bodies giving in on them? How about wondering why your child would steal something from any one's home after the great upbringing you supposedly gave them. I hope the D.A. goes for the max allowed a juvenile for A-Felony Theft, and the judge gavels down on these "children."

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 05:45.

I think (hope) that the punishment was actually sarcastic, but these days, you never know. :-)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:00.

You mean if you actually noticed. Evidently someone else had to point out to the parents that the flamingos were in their garage!

You also forgot to take his x-Box 360 away for an hour. Oh and you drive him to school late instead of him being able to take the $40k car you bought him for his 16th birthday.

There, that should do it!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 18:52.

A perennial favorite!

A similar story, probably over 10 years ago, the thieves went so far as to create ransom videos, and they were calling the flamingos "pelicans".

"WE HAVE YOUR PELICANS!!"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 19:00.

That is too funny!!!! Most flamingos on lawns are for a joke like TP-ing a yard. I'm sure the stupid teens did not realize they were harming anyone.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:15.

Well you are stupider then the teen who did this considering you think it is funny, gee I never knew that stealing was ever meant to be a joke.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:59.

imaginary thumbs up. Not a funny prank. book'em. To the young, actions have consequences.

Submitted by Scruffy (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:27.

All ur pelikans are belong to us!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2010-02-10 09:58.

I have seen it done with a garden gnome, except they didn't write a randsome note, they sent postcards home from it and took pictures of it in various spots as if it was on vacation. In the end of their trip, they snuck it back where it belonged. I think that was actually clever. I would get a garden gnome if someone would do that for me.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 19:35.

I can't believe you callous idiots are defending the teen's actions. But it does make it easier to understand how kids can grow up so unfeeling and disrespectful.

Submitted by Altazi (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 19:47.

I agree with your comments; there really is no suitable defense for their actions. The teens involved missed the chance to return the flamingos in a timely fashion, and ended up looking mean, uncaring, and selfish. Clearly not a lot of brain activity was going on in their little minds.

I think an appropriate punishment would be written apologies to the victim, and 100 hours of community service in the form of yard care, housekeeping assistance, and pretty much anything the victim desires.

I always tried to teach my children that you'll never get in trouble for leaving someone else's property alone.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 22:24.

Maybe the comments are comming from bad parents. The same ones that want the state to intervene, forgive, and to fix their screw-ups, at the expense of all of us.

Submitted by Altazi (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 19:52.

KATU: Can you PLEASE ditch this forum style? It is terrible. There is no provision for editing your post to correct a typo, and worse yet, there is no way for others to leave simple feedback to show approval or disapproval.

I would be interested in seeing a user poll on this subject. You game?

Submitted by DaveH (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 20:03.

AGREED... HATE IT! (yes, I meant the all caps)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:00.

Lurn too spele ant yu wont hav a probwem.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:52.

I agree. It sucks.

But hey, KATU don't care. Plus being anonymous means you can be as stupid as you want to.....

So there......

Submitted by Anonymous-but I do who I am (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:25.

I JUST LOVE THE COLOR OF THE PAGES.....sorry for shouting.

All I am looking for on this site is the breaking news....that is not breaking anymore as the ads all load and pages go up and down for ads.........and this site is slower.

Looks like the intense debate option is getting tiny'er also..

Ebay must be their model...........nuff said

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 05:48.

I concur, this forum style STINKS!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 20:36.

well it might be wrong but ya gotta admit it is funny.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 20:58.

I hope he didn't kill any of them!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 21:52.

Kids should get a medal. I hate those things.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 22:26.

They were on someone else's property. The kids should get buckshot.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 22:56.

They should have posted the kids' names so that they could be ridiculed and taught a lesson.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:12.

Go Peggy! - good luck with the treatment and enjoy the birds. Your friends are the best and you are fortunate to have them. They sure came up with a winner idea for keeping one's spirits up.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-02-08 23:26.

the teens didn't live in the house by themselves! Makes you wonder what the CONCERNED parents said when they showed up in the garage, "they just wondered in?"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 00:46.

Wasn't it just last year that everybody was laughing about the yard gnomes that were stolen in the night, and placed on somebody else's lawn? I have a feeling that had the flamingos not have caused such a media frenzy, that they too would have re-appeard on some unsuspecting persons lawn.

Submitted by Opinionated (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 04:56.

DaveH & Altazi: Cheers to you! I love people who take a few seconds to drop the Anonymous title and take on some sort of identity instead of walking around like an anonymous herd of sheep.

Submitted by DaveH (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 06:35.

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Submitted by Urgh at katu (not verified) on Wed, 2010-02-10 10:40.

See now, here is the problem with these new bs pages you have set up. Anyone can impersonate anyone else. On certain sites that is really funny, but on a news site it really isn't. It will take no time at all for this to be wall to wall blathering trolldom. I won't put my usual username on these 'community' pages because I don't want to have to keep saying "that wasn't me".

(I don't know what it is that KATU does that interests the trolls so much in the first place...but boy do you guys bring them in!)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 06:00.

Katu....LOVE the new forum. its fun getting people riled over nothing like a format change isnt it?

Submitted by Altazi (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 09:21.

I am not "riled" over this format, just disappointed. This was a clear case of something getting "fixed" when it wasn't broken in the first place.

When I see that a news item is presented in this format, I generally click away from it and go elsewhere. If KATU wants to encourage people to click away from their website, so be it.

I believe they would be wise to do a poll. Come on, KATU; step up to the plate.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:10.

you ARE riled and if you go away..we (the good guys) win. cuz like thats what katu wants ..is to get rid of hateful trolls like you!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2010-02-10 10:23.

Altazi isn't a troll you idiot.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 08:18.

Although this story would make for interesting reading (ie., "The Flamingo Brief"), the teens SHOULD be held accountable for their actions and made a clear example for other adolescent (sp?) idiots out there. Definitely give them lots of community service to perform (ie., 1000 hrs should suffice)!!!

Submitted by mkepp (not verified) on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:52.

KPTV still has the "Intense Debate" format. See ya there.