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Friday, July 22, 2022

"Y'all come on over for a barbecue"

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A Knoxville man and woman were charged after stealing food from a softball park concession stand, an arrest report states.

Cody Johnson, 28, and Sara Novak, 35, are accused of breaking into the TriStar Ballpark also known as Badgett Fields on Ball Camp Pike, and stealing several food items and a projector. According to the report, the two broke into the concession stand and took:

8 comments:

  1. Who leaves $1,000 overnight in a cash register? Sounds a lot like a "we was robbed, so let's claim there was some money stolen also" kind of stunt.

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  2. If I were a burglar and saw a keep out sign I'd keep on walking. Just like the gun free zone signs keep the mentally deranged from shooting innocent people. Or maybe they just don't know how to read.

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    1. you got here before me! Salmon! At the little league game?? Around here they cant' even get the nacho cheese warm But really Salmon, in TN At the softball game

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    2. Must be an upper class ball field. Around here we make do with catfish.

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    3. I buy all my Salmon from a concession stand!

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  4. My parents were just simple working class people. My dad was a foundry worker, and my mom did everything from nailing pallets by hand to cooking in a restaurant. They bought a resaurant from friends, by signing their names onto a whole lot of loans.
    The restaurant was my very small hometown, but was at a cross roads in Michigan that took people nearly everywhere. So the often grossed over 300 K per year, in that small place.
    But finding decent help was the real trick. The once caught one of their cooks stealing T Bone steaks from their freezer and putting them into her trunk, out the back door. She had been doing it for some time, according to their inventory. My dad fired her on the spot, of course, but they didn't press any charges, as was normal for a small town.
    Within 3-4 months, I think, she was back cooking for them. I was dumbfounded, asked them about it. They told me, that they just couldn't get anyone else to do it. I never heard that they had any more problems with her stealing from them, so either they did not have a problem, or didn't catch her, or just did not publicize it.
    The left money for the next morning in the till, overnight, but the amount that I seem to remember was 180$, in bills and change. Enough that it would suck if you lost it, but it would cost more to repair the damage done for the criminals to break in, given how they secured the place at night.
    I have a lot of fun stories of that place, from an old guy hitting the gas instead of the brake, and driving through the wall, with nobody getting hurt, to a fryer malfunctioning, and me being the only one around, and going up and pulling the fire extinguisher system, and the entire kitchen getting flooded with that white powder, over every fryer, grill, and stove in the place. I got smoke inhalation, and had to spend the night in the emergency room, getting breathing treatments, and the insurance company paid the lost financial receipts for the place, plus all of the employees lost wages, plus they paid all of the employees to clean the kitchen and wash every single plate, cup, fork,knife and spoon, etc. They were down almost a week, and didn't lose a dime. Oh, the insurance company paid my lost wages for the night as well.
    Insurance seems to be a pain in the ass when it is so expensive, but when you have a claim and they are that good, and don't even bat an eye, it makes it much easier to take.

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