3 Dec 2014
Sure, we know it sounds crazy, but there is a connection – more than one, in fact. Here’s the story.
The owner of a meat company in south Austin stopped by his place of business this weekend, and was surprised to find a stranger asleep in his office, with his feet up on the owner’s desk. A surveillance video and other clues indicate that the intruder spent about twenty minutes kicking in the door of the business. After he got in, he went over to the meat cooler, grabbed some sausages, and left. Shortly thereafter the man returned to the cooler, and, although the report is not entirely clear, may have returned the sausage whence they came.
The police were called, and when confronted, the man said he and some friends were out drinking, and apparently broke into the business not to steal anything, but to find a warmer place to get some sleep. He has been charged with criminal trespass, although no theft charges have been made regarding the sausages. The suspect, we think, could have done a lot worse. He’s facing a misdemeanor charge for the trespass, but could have been charged with more serious crimes.
We ordinarily wouldn’t be writing about this event, bizarre though it may be, but for some activity in San Antonio that took also took place over the Thanksgiving weekend. In the San Antonio case, a woman has been charged with what police describe as a “sausage heist.” Details are scanty, but police officers say that a woman was caught on videotape taking a palette of goods from the Kiolbassa Provision Company. The palette, they tell us, was loaded with $6,400 worth of sausage. They are fairly certain that theft was the motive on this one, especially since, it is alleged, some of the sausage was sold to a third party. The charge against her is likely a state jail felony, quite a bit more serious than the trespass charge against the Austin man.
We should tell you that we have nothing against sausage, but we were surprised that it figured so highly in two separate Texas crime reports during the same holiday weekend.
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