Heartless thieves burglarize Girl Scouts, steal cookies
MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- A Girl Scout troop is asking for help after falling victim to a heartless thief.
Police say the burglar or burglars forced their way into a back door of a Marysville office the scouts were storing items they were going to sell in a garage sale to raise money for an upcoming trip to Europe.
"(The trip) is something completely new, (something) we're not used to because we've all grown up around the northwest area and we all haven't really got out," said Girl Scout Shannon Davidson.
The girls are heartbroken about the theft, but they're determined to find a way to fund their trip.
Like all Girl Scouts, the Marysville teens are dedicated to community service. They've helped senior citizens, raised money for an animal shelter and planted trees in the county. But now they're hoping the community will help them.
The owners of the office where the items were stored came in Monday morning and found the place in disarray. A laptop was stolen, and the scout troop's garage sale items were also gone. The scouts had nearly $500 worth of items, including an Xbox and games, tools, kitchen appliances and clothing.
"I feel devastated," said scout Kaitlyn Samaniego. "We've been loading cars and unloading cars with heavy things."
The burglars even took boxes of Girl Scout cookies, but they left a box of thin mints in the doorway.
The teens have a message for the person who took their donations.
"You have not just taken items, you have taken some hopes," Samaniego said.
Despite the loss, the girls say this is just a bump in the road.
"We all are really strong as a troop," Davidson said. "We're going to get up and we're going to go work 10 times harder and we're going to get to that London trip. We are going to make it there."
The trip will cost each Girl Scout about $3,000. If you'd like to donate any garage sale items, you can contact the troop by email.
Police say the burglar or burglars forced their way into a back door of a Marysville office the scouts were storing items they were going to sell in a garage sale to raise money for an upcoming trip to Europe.
"(The trip) is something completely new, (something) we're not used to because we've all grown up around the northwest area and we all haven't really got out," said Girl Scout Shannon Davidson.
The girls are heartbroken about the theft, but they're determined to find a way to fund their trip.
Like all Girl Scouts, the Marysville teens are dedicated to community service. They've helped senior citizens, raised money for an animal shelter and planted trees in the county. But now they're hoping the community will help them.
The owners of the office where the items were stored came in Monday morning and found the place in disarray. A laptop was stolen, and the scout troop's garage sale items were also gone. The scouts had nearly $500 worth of items, including an Xbox and games, tools, kitchen appliances and clothing.
"I feel devastated," said scout Kaitlyn Samaniego. "We've been loading cars and unloading cars with heavy things."
The burglars even took boxes of Girl Scout cookies, but they left a box of thin mints in the doorway.
The teens have a message for the person who took their donations.
"You have not just taken items, you have taken some hopes," Samaniego said.
Despite the loss, the girls say this is just a bump in the road.
"We all are really strong as a troop," Davidson said. "We're going to get up and we're going to go work 10 times harder and we're going to get to that London trip. We are going to make it there."
The trip will cost each Girl Scout about $3,000. If you'd like to donate any garage sale items, you can contact the troop by email.
Creeps; hope they are caught......doubt they will be caught.....too easy to fence this stuff and eat the cookies. This sort of theft happens every year all across the country when cookies go on sale.
Oh geeze not the Thin mints....
As disappointing as any burglary is (especially when it impacts the kids), I don't understand why a reporter always places a quote in these types of stories like "along with the stuff you took, you took our dreams". Burglars don't care whose dreams they take, or they wouldn't be stealing stuff in the first place.
That said, I commend the girls in the troop for their positive, can-do attitudes in the face of the unexpected.
Can you blame them? Those Samoas have crack in them.... if my hands were full and I had to leave a box of Samoas or Thin Mints, I'd have to begrudgingly leave behind the Thin Mints as well.
"Heartless" pretty much describes anyone who would take something that doesn't belong to them.
Um . . . yeah, the perps were scum, what thief isn't? But I also gotta ask . . . is sending these young girls to Europe with anything less than Secret Service style protection a good idea? I mean, it's safer than Mexico, but if I was their father, no way would I allow my girls to be exposed like that, not while they were minors and I had any say in it. So, maybe this was a blessing in disguise, Americans are nothing more than targets in much of the world.
Hyperbolic opinion doesn't belong in the headlines. Â Heartless? Â Those thieves were probably just misunderstood inner-city kids trying to get just enough to feed their starving younger siblings. Â THEY DID IT FOR THE CHILDREN. Â Meanwhile the spoiled upper-class girl scouts even had laptops and an X-Box there, items they clearly didn't need that the poor underprivileged inner-city kids were unfairly denied. Â
Seriously, all theft is bad, but KOMO seems to opine that it's worst when it's old people or kids doing pseudo-volunteer work that are stolen from. Â It shouldn't matter. Â The crime is the same, the intent was the same, and under Washington's leftist policies, the time (none) is the same.
We all know who the #1 suspect in the crime is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Monster
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