>> Man caught on video taking from Springfield Girl Scouts fundraiser
But the duo were not done stealing. As this dad left with the box of money from the sales ...
“Another one ran up to me, pushed me broadside, grabbed the box from me and took off running,” he said.
The teens got away with hundreds of dollars.
“It gives them the money for them to do the trips, their events, their badging, all the stuff that goes along with the Scouts, takes that pressure off of the group,” he said of the funds raised by the kids who saw it get taken away.
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This dad’s message to those teens: “Get a job. Earn it that way. Don’t take it from other kids.”
While some may find it hard to fathom that people would steal from children, the experience also highlighted the good in others.
“People in the parking lot were even offering money from out of their pockets, just to compensate for what we had lost, because they asked what happened and I said, ‘They just robbed from the Scouts.’ One woman broke to tears, she felt really horrible. She handed me a $20 and said, ‘I’m sorry it happened.’”
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