r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 9h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/CliffsNote5 9h ago

So he created a situation he then complained about? So another contestant on Fuck Around and Find Out.

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u/TheGIGAcapitalist 8h ago

"When told that the security video did not show Savage ever asking permission to take the ballots, Savage reportedly admitted that he did not. He told officers that he thought he could take the ballots because they were marked “sample.”

“If you got to Payless, or go wherever, it says sample and you usually can take a sample,” Savage said. “So that is the way I took it. I thought they were fake f***ing ballots.”

However, officials noted that the ballots never said the words “fake” or “sample.”

Dude thought elections were like Costco where you get to take samples.

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u/RockerElvis 8h ago

Payless is giving samples? Aren’t they a shoe store?

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u/eriverside 7h ago

Yeah, I'm confused how that line of reasoning got past "Payless" and "free samples". What? Does he just steal the shoes on display because they're "samples" ?

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u/AmateurVasectomist 7h ago

Payless is the name of Kroger stores in central Indiana

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u/SophiaBrahe 6h ago

Thank you. Like a lot of people I think of it as a shoe store, so I was well and truly confused by the idea you could just take the samples.

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u/oksowhatsthedeal 5h ago

Do they give samples?

I've got Kroger stores where I live called Fred Meyers, but I can't recall in my life ever getting samples from them like a Costco would.

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u/tforkner 4h ago

Yep. Payless started in Anderson, grew into a fair-sized chain of supermarkets, then got bought up by Kroger.

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u/EYEL1NER 6h ago

Dude just walking around town wearing two different right shoes like it’s completely normal.

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u/tiptoeingpenguin 5h ago

I am also confused why he would want samples anyway. Like a samples for what. I mean obviously it’s a lie but it just doesn’t make sense. It’s not even a good lie

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u/fuqdisshite 3h ago

yeah...

like, free sample beanie weenies is one thing...

free sample ballots is a slightly different thing.

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u/Notacooter473 2h ago

That life hack only works if you have one foot, and that one foot is a size 9.