Stealing From A Girl Scout: Worst Crime EVER

According to an article on ParentDish, a nine-year-old Girl Scout was recently selling cookies in a supermarket when two teenagers snatched her money (a little over $150) and ran. The teens were later caught, providing a few classic quotes, such as “We went through all that effort…and we had to give the money back.” Yeah, that sucks, doesn’t it?

By Carly

I think we can all agree that this is a “WTF” moment. You don’t steal money from a Girl Scout, no matter how stupid you are! Girl Scouts, in the eye of the American public, are on approximately the same level as troops in Iraq or bald eagle chicks.

Plus, how traumatizing would it be for the Girl Scout to watch her hard-earned money be plucked away like that? True, I can think of worse things, but not many.

I was a Girl Scout once. Not for long, because I hated wearing the uniform and I wasn’t girly-girl enough to hit it off with all the other girls, but I know what it’s like to shoulder the doom and responsibility of big-ticket cookie profits.

It’s freaking hard to sell $150 worth of cookies. You can only guilt so many boxes’ worth out of relatives, and after that it’s all going door-to-door in the bitter cold, peddling your sales pitch to people who politely feign interest until they can close the door without causing you to burst into tears.

Forget teen pregnancy, teen drug use, and teen drinking…it pains me to know that there are teens in America willing to steal Girl Scout cookies for fun and profit.