Pedicab Man

My friend William has a small mom and pop regrind business near Birmingham. He and his wife grind up scrap plastic to re-sell. It's a lot of low margin, hard work, and when he realized that wooden pallets that would cost more than $8 a piece to replace were missing, he started to get concerned. Later William caught a couple guys in back of his shop loading more of his pallets on a U-Haul Truck. When William turned to go back in his building to call the sherriff, the crooks tried to run him over with the truck. He was hit and knocked into a ditch. William managed to get the truck's tag number, and they were caught in a few minutes. Turned out the guys in the truck were charged with 3rd degree burgulary and out on bond before William got home from the emergency room. Since he has no medical insurance, William will have to pay his medical bills. Worse, he is also paying to bond out the crooks since they used money from the sale of his stolen pallets to post bond. Here is the crazy part: if 60 Minutes happened to do a segment on this story, the storyline would be sympathic to the crooks since it would be politically incorrect to do anything else.

Labels: Will 60 minutes do a story on personal responsibility?