What a Mother. . .
It's stories like this that make me want to leave Charlotte and never, ever come back. A mother had her son arrested for stealing. Stealing Pop Tarts. Stealing them from the house. Not Food Lion. Not Harris Teeter. Not Wal Mart. But the house where he lives. What a mother ! (If you want to add an f-word to that, feel free.) According to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report, the mother called investigators on Monday to report her Pop-Tarts had been stolen. She fingered her own son, who is a juvenile, as the culprit. Neighbor Fred Patrick could not stop laughing when he first learned an arrest had been made over Pop-Tarts. He knows the young boy. "He seems real nice to me. I mean, he is real respectful," Patrick said. The report said that the boy was placed under juvenile arrest and was charged with larceny/misdemeanor. Another neighbor, Tiffany Covington, said in her house, food is there for everyone. "It would be nice if they asked, but th...