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fleur-de-lisa

(14,663 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:29 PM Jan 2017

GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/ga-gop-lawmaker-recovering-after-being-shot-at-adult-cinema-parking-lot-carrying-thousands-in-cash/

Glad he is okay, but I really wonder what he was actually doing there and if the story about the cash is true. Republicans always turn out to be secret pervs. I checked Google maps for this store. It's in a separate building from the liquor store (NOT adjacent) and there is another business between the two. Smells fishy that he would park so far away. This isn't a dense urban area. The comments to this article are HILARIOUS!

A Georgia Republican lawmaker is in recovery after he was robbed and shot at an adult cinema parking lot while he was carrying thousands of dollars in cash.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that State Rep. Gerald Greene (R – Cuthbert) is now recuperating in his own home after being treated at a local hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg that he incurred during an armed robbery.

Greene claims that he had parked outside of the Foxes Cinema in Columbus, GA because he wanted to go into an adjacent liquor store.

Greene also claims that the thief — whom he described to police as “a male about 5 feet 5 inches tall who was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black pants” — only took his iPhone and was apparently unaware he was carrying a sackful of cash.

As for the money itself, Greene says that it was collected donations to help victims of storms that had ravaged Southern Georgia over the past weekend.

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GA GOP lawmaker recovering after being shot at adult cinema parking lot carrying thousands in cash (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jan 2017 OP
Was the GOP CONgressman going into the liquor store to buy guillaumeb Jan 2017 #1
Dear GOP Lawmaker, I'd like to donate to flooding relief and I assume LisaM Jan 2017 #2
Who needs a sackful of cash to go to the liquor store? WhiteTara Jan 2017 #3
HMMMMMM Drug deal gone bad? Or blackmail payment? appleannie1943 Jan 2017 #4
Two, and only two possibilities: mn9driver Jan 2017 #5
That's gonna leave a mark. yellowcanine Jan 2017 #6
Liquor store, porn shop. How much you want to bet it was bribe money? OregonBlue Jan 2017 #7

LisaM

(28,594 posts)
2. Dear GOP Lawmaker, I'd like to donate to flooding relief and I assume
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:36 PM
Jan 2017

that you'll take my donation as a sackful of cash?

mn9driver

(4,575 posts)
5. Two, and only two possibilities:
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:51 PM
Jan 2017

1. Drug deal gone bad. The location fits.

2. An alibi for a bunch of missing money.

He wouldn't be the first person to arrange to be shot in order to explain why all the money is gone.

yellowcanine

(36,336 posts)
6. That's gonna leave a mark.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:53 PM
Jan 2017

In more ways than one. Sack of cash which was collected to help storm victims and I am hanging outside of an adult cinema but actually was headed toward the liquor store and I was robbed - but perp only took my cell phone - not the cash. Sure I believe that. What's not to believe?

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