This particular case is a little tricky. On one hand, you have the fact that for religious purposes, Santeria requires certain sacrifices at certain times. In this case, a goat must be slaughtered for an initiation. The city of Euless does not allow for the slaughtering of animals in the city limits for any purpose. This only gets tricky when we take into account that the law was not originally set up to target Santeria or its followers, but in fact was set up to keep farming out of the city. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
What does bother me about the fiasco is the way that news agencies have handled it. Only in certain print does it bother to mention that the sacrificed animal is eaten. When broadcasting, this simple fact is often overlooked.
Once again, modern man amazes us with his ingenuity. After all, what could be easier and simpler than stealing an entire atm?!!?!? Robbing the clerk? Mugging someone? Getting a job? Oh that was sill of me! Apparently this guy actually planned on hauling the entire damn thing into his truck. Apparently he didn't really think it through either... What's really inspiring about this entire story, is that this is only one of over a dozen attempts in the past month!
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Even if he had been able to take the ATM, it is basically impossible to break into them by force... At the store where I work, if he had shown the gun, we would have given him all the money in the registers without any problems. We would have given him the scratch-off cabinet for the road, too...
lol wow i never would've thought of the scratch off tickets but that's great
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