TSA Agent Grabs Rick Case's Pen, Faces Grand Theft Charges (Updated)

• They should have confiscated Rita's dopey hat.

• Press charges against TSA for not being able to better store lost/found things, but to single out one man who happened to pick it up doesn't seem fair. I own a similar pen valued at $650, but I can also understand if someone was to look at it and think that they had no idea it was worth so much. It's only a pen. Mr. Case if you have any class you could have sought out another way to reprimand Mr. Puddie, but i guess him losing his job wasn't enough for you. "Gray Cat" you simply have no idea about you're talking about other than utter nonsense. if i was to ever be pressed charges on such a ridiculous case you can bet my lawyers will be giving you the run around.

• you are so on target......

• At lwast it wasn't Rick's rolex watch!

• Gray cat:  Your many posts ignore the fact Mr. Toussain picked the pen up from the top of a cabinet.  The pen was left unsecured by one or more of the other agents, where one could reasonably assume its available for use by anyone.  Mr Toussain did not take the pen from any sort of designated "lost property" area or lock-up, nor was the pen tagged as lost property.  As such there is a lack of demonstrable intent on Mr. Toussain's part and very much reasonable doubt if Toussain realized what he was doing.  The fact the pen was returned in good order weighs as well.  The D.A. is not going to get beyond a misdemeanor 'misappropriation of property charge" on this. Ultimately was it wrong to take the pen?  Yes.  However, I can assure you if it was your or my Mount Blanc pen, its unlikely anything more than a police report would be taken.  This is all about law enforcement currying favor with a car dealer so they may likely personally benefit.  And that stinks.

• I have had things stolen from security checkpoints, mostly pre-9/11/01 when they were staffed by $6/hour ignorant nudninks.  I had a Canon Rebel Camera stolen at the Continental checkpoint in SFO in year 2000, and the Police did not give a rats arse. However some common sense here:  The agent did something wrong, and has already paid a big price by loosing his job.  The D.A. should cut a misdemeanor plea deal so the guy gets another chance without a felony hanging around his neck.  If the lackey pandering Broward Sheriffs looking to get in good with the car dealer or Case himself does not like it, pound sand. Of course, this assumes the D.A. is not corrupted by the allure of car dealer favoritism either....

• And that is your business . . . how? And that is wrong, in what way? Why do you care?

• Someone who's not you, and that you have no right to judge. Someone who paid for that pen. Someone who's entitled to pay with his own money for whatever he wants. Just like you.

• 1. Mr. Puddie is an agent of the TSA: charged with protecting and safeguarding people and their property. 2. Mr. Puddie took what was not his. 3. Mr. Puddie did not turn in the pen -- that he knew he had in his possession -- for two weeks he knew it was being sought. 4. Mr. Puddie only turned in the pen when he thought he could escape the consequences of his theft. Any questions? If that kid came crying for the coin, wouldn't you immediately give it back to him? Or would you wait two weeks until he promised not to look at you and ask why you kept it as you placed it on the table in front of him? Yes, I'd call myself a thief for taking what I know is not mine. For that is what I would be. If Mr. Puddie did not think the pen had value, why did he know exactly what pen was being sought? When you casually pick up a pen, do you think about it? Do you know exactly where and when you did it? If so, why did you take it in the first place?

• Though you really know nothing of him first-hand. How about your "humanity"? People today place no more value on vanity than they ever have. People today place no less value on humanity than they ever have. People today place themselves just as superior to their fellows and feel qualified to judge them as they always have. The "meaning of Life" is to mind your own business. If you choose to help someone, fine. But you have no right to judge anyone else if they don't make your choices and think like you do. And it's certainly no justification for theft. Humanity is to let others make their own choices, and to let others be free -- of your control, your judgment, your dictate, your taxes, your coercion. Humanity is to treat others as you want to be treated: if you don't want others telling you what to do with what's yours, and judging you, then don't do that to anyone else. Humanity is not hiding behind government. Government is a monopoly on force. Unless you think it's a good thing to force other people to do as you think. Then you're not much of a humanitarian.

• This justifies someone stealing from him? Really?

• "Property rights" means there is someone entitled to property: their own, that they inherited, earned, paid for, acquired through voluntary exchange. And no one else is entitled to it. So what, the "haves" have something you don't, but want -- envy? If you don't envy in fact, then it doesn't matter to you what others "have" because they have earned it and paid for it and you haven't. If you want it, go out and earn it. Otherwise, what someone else has is none of your business, and you're certainly not entitled to any of it. You can earn it and pay for it, but you certainly have no right to take it otherwise. What qualifies you to dictate to someone else what they can or cannot do with their own property (money)? Anyone who buys something has first responsibility to make sure it is not "shitty" or overpriced. If they pay for it anyway, it's on them. You know the saying: buyer beware. NO ONE is forced to buy anything from Mr. Case. If in fact some car is defective, then do something to remedy it peacefully; there are remedies -- but they require proof. No one stays in business if his product is consistently bad. "Property rights" are to protect the people whose rightful property it is. Anything else is not "property rights," but theft, dictatorship, mob rule, tyranny. For if they can take property from the "haves" and give it to the "have nots," what is to keep them from taking that, too, when they determine the "have nots" have become the "haves"? And when there is a forced "equality," and no one has more than the "have nots," what will you have gained? You will never be able to be anything else. And that by your own hand, by your own envy.

• Same thing as always: some busybody thinking they are qualified to pass judgment on what someone else does with their own money.

• Why do you assume nothing has been said? And given the circumstances, who would one say anything to? Does someone not saying anything make it less a crime? Should anyone get away with theft just because someone may not have "said" anything? Is it wrong to commit a crime, or wrong to get caught? If you don't get caught, are you thus not a criminal?

• Yes; so why do WE THE PEOPLE allow this government theft and enslaving of us in the first place?! It's not up to Congress; WE THE PEOPLE need to simply stand up and en masse say "NO!" to this and every other bogus government agency!

• Doesn't negate that he was stolen from.

• No thief is owed anything, much less an apology from his victim!

• Would that all the "guards" of the TSA were in jail, for taking a job that directly violates our rights! Who are you or anyone else to say who can pay what for what? So what if yours didn't satisfy you? That's not a reason to denigrate anyone else for having one. (Besides, what does that say about your having TWO of them?! Why did you mention that to begin with other than to indirectly brag about it by trying to establish authority to denigrate someone else for having one?) Mr. Puddie and the illegitimate, anti-Constitution and anti-Bill of Rights government agency he worked for, the taxpayer-supported TSA, put Mr. Puddie in the situation he's in, not anyone else. If not for the TSA, this would never have happened. If not for Mr. Puddie's sticky fingers, he would not be in the situation he's in.

• Whose cabinet was it and why did he take the pen from there? After two weeks of police seeking the very pen Mr. Puddie knew he had, why did he only turn it in when he thought he could escape the consequences?

• Who are you to say who should buy what with their own money? You wouldn't have known anything about Mr. Case's $450 pen if it weren't for the TSA and Mr. Puddie's sticky fingers. Mr. Puddie wouldn't have stolen the pen if he weren't a security agent of the TSA.

• The young man ruined his own life by betraying the oath he swore to protect and safeguard persons and their personal property. That's the ostensible mission of the TSA. As an agent of the TSA, he knew what he did was theft. Only when he thought he could get off the hook without consequences did he turn in the pen. Mr. Case may be an unlikeable person, but TSA agent Puddie was supposed to protect and safeguard all persons and their property. Property not Mr. Puddie's is someone else's, not Mr. Puddie's. No matter where he may have "found" it. If another agent didn't turn in the property, so what? That didn't license Mr. Puddie to take it. "Finding" it, he should have turned it in. That's what he's being paid to do; that's what his job is: to secure persons and their property. The young man committed theft, knowingly.

• The issue is theft by a person sworn to protect persons and their personal property. If it's not yours, don't take it. If you do, without permission or payment, it's theft. For two weeks he knew the pen was being sought, and that he had it. He only turned it in when he thought he could get off the hook for doing what he knew was wrong. In his capacity as a security agent. Mercy is a good thing. Excusing crime is not.

• "Let's home [sic] every pen you touch, you return. Every coin you find, you report." These used to be words to live by. If it's not yours, don't take it. Simple. They certainly should have been for a security agent entrusted with safeguarding people and their personal property. He knew the pen he took; he knew the pen the police were searching for. For two weeks. Not until he thought he might be let off the hook he put himself on did he turn it in. Mercy is a good thing, but excusing crime isn't.

• Two weeks he kept the pen he knew the police were looking for; he knew the pen wasn't just any old pen (but even then, it wouldn't have been right to take it!), and he didn't do anything about it until he thought he could get away with it. He was an agent of SECURITY. His job was to protect and safeguard people and their property. He wasn't honest; he knew the jig was up and tried to get out of a situation he created for himself.

• Yeah; the threat of being punished for a crime is certainly a reason not to be honest! The TSA guy was IN THE BUSINESS OF BEING HONEST!!! Mr. Case isn't the only person who accidentally leaves behind personal property. Anyone who takes something that is not his is stealing. Especially if he is entrusted with safeguarding the personal property of others! Whose property WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND IF NOT FOR THE TSA!!!

• The issue isn't a pen; it's not whether Mr. Case can afford another one; it's not jobs or how much anyone makes, it's not whether someone is likeable or not. The ISSUE is theft. The fact remains Mr. Puddie took private property that didn't belong to him, knew it, and made no effort to find its rightful owner, even after he knew the police were looking for the very pen he took. He didn't turn it in until he thought he could get away with it. On top of that, he did it in his sworn capacity as an agent of securing persons and their private property.

• Balderdash! If you know or care anything about rights, freedom, and human dignity, you've been objecting from at least the 1970s! It's not a matter of political party; no one has the right to invade your person, your life, your private property. Not for any excuse. "Inalienable" means you can't be separated from them; you're born with certain rights simply because you're a human being. These rights DON'T evaporate because on ANYTHING. If you're so blind you can't see past partisan politics to the Nazi evil that's being forced on us, starting 'way before Bush/Obama, you are beyond hope! Learn some history! NO PRESIDENT/POLITICAL PARTY is justified or has the right at any time to invade anyone's person or property, to violate anyone's body or privacy, for any reason, if they haven't ACTUALLY committed a crime. A REAL crime: like initiating violence against someone, or stealing from them, or defrauding them. Name one single terrorist/terrorist plot the TSA has prevented or caught. Just one. There aren't any.

• Mr. Case didn't "lose" his pen. It was overlooked in a SECURITY SCANNING BIN during the rush and hustle of this bogus "security" theater, and accidentally left behind. That no one charged with that "security," who found the pen, made an effort to find its owner then and there speaks to theft. That Mr. Puddie knew which pen was being sought in the two-week hunt for it speaks to theft. That he didn't turn it in immediately speaks to theft. That he only turned it in when he thought he could get away with it speaks to knowledge that he committed theft. In the capacity of a security agent sworn to protect persons and their private property.

• Your government and your taxes at work for you. The issue isn't "a pen." The issue is the existence of the TSA.

• Because Mr. Puddie was in a position of trust to secure and safeguard our persons and property? Because Mr. Puddie knew there was an ongoing investigation for this pen, and knew exactly which pen, but didn't come forward with it until someone said charges would be dropped? Because "holding onto pens" that don't belong to you is theft? That whether it's $450 or $10 or $.50 doesn't change that fact? That just because you do it and think nothing of it (really? You're aware of it, and that the pens don't belong to you . . .) doesn't mean it's not theft? Because even a "douche bag" has the right to his personal property and not to be stolen from? If Mr. Puddie had been concerned about his job perhaps he wouldn't have gambled it on someone else's stolen property -- especially since his job is supposed to be of someone above suspicion, honest, a protector of other people's persons and property?

• If that someone had been in the least concerned about his income, he might have thought twice about taking property, as a "security" agent, that did not belong to him, and only turn it in after hearing that charges wouldn't be pressed. Why is his income more important than the fact that he stole what was not rightfully his?

• Why? Because he has a right to his own property, and to prosecute the thief who stole it? Being an asshole does not mean it's okay to steal from you and get away with it.

• The decision to pay for and own a $450 pen is not yours to make for anyone else. If you don't want one, fine. But that doesn't make you virtuous and give you license to pass judgment on someone who does -- and paid for it. The fact is Mr. Puddie took something he knew wasn't his. And he kept it for two weeks while knowing an investigation was going on for the very pen he had taken. He knew right from wrong, and only finally wanted his guilt assuaged when he thought he wouldn't have to be accountable for it. It's not what the item is or its value; it's the fact that it isn't yours (Mr. Puddie's) to begin with.

• What if he weren't a "douche bag" but a kindly little old lady? If someone can pay for it, what's a $450 pen to you? If you can't pay for it, that's not their fault. Earn it. If you don't want it, so what? That doesn't make you virtuous, and it doesn't give you license to pass judgment on someone who does and can pay for it. Since when are there people who "deserve" to be stolen from?!

• Maybe it's more a case of envy and basic dishonesty -- especially for someone charged with safeguarding our lives and property. If you don't like "wealthy" people, don't be like them. Your not liking them, no matter what they may be wanting in, doesn't justify stealing from them -- even if the pen were only worth $.50. If it's not yours, and it's not voluntarily given to you, don't take it. "Common goods" or "luxury goods" doesn't make a difference; if you didn't earn it or pay for it, it's not yours and you're not entitled to it.

• If you cared about the issue of private property, you wouldn't be casually picking up and never returning pens (implies you know who their rightful owners are). If you cared about your damn tax money you'd be trying to get rid of the malevolent government that is confiscating -- stealing -- your money to pay for this TSA farce in the first place. It wasn't "just a pen." It was an item of personal property worth $450 that no one among those great protectors of our persons and property bothered to try to find the proper owner of. If it was worth only $.50, Puddie still took something he knew didn't belong to him. And he knew exactly which pen was being sought for two weeks prior to his turning it in, and only did so when someone said charges wouldn't be pressed. Theft is theft; it's time for it to be stopped. It's not just this one "little" isolated incident. If Puddie didn't want his life ruined, he shouldn't have taken what was not his.

• Taxpayers' money is being wasted on the TSA, without which this incident would never have happened. The fact is Mr. Puddie knew exactly which pen was being looked for in the two weeks prior to his finally turning it in. Mr. Puddie is a person ostensibly charged with safeguarding passengers and their property. Wouldn't you think he'd know better than to take anything lying around that didn't belong to him?!

• Yes, let's get our priorities right: the pen did not belong to Puddie, and he knew it. Whether you would accuse the owners of casual sticky fingers of being thieves or not does not change the fact that they are. As are you, if you also walk off with someone else's property. It doesn't matter what the property is; it matters that it's not yours. If you cared about other people, and respected them, you couldn't be so casual about it.

• The fact of the matter is that a TSA agent -- someone supposedly entrusted to guard, secure, our persons and property -- took something that didn't belong to him. You think that because TSA is to "secure" flight "safety," they are not accountable for also safeguarding passengers and their property? What's it all about, again?

• Doesn't make it okay to steal from him -- or anyone else. If you think you've been defrauded, prove it and press charges. Defrauding you does not make it okay to steal from anyone else.

• In the meantime, maybe Puddie shouldn't have taken what was not rightfully his in the first place?

• It's okay to steal from someone if you don't like them? Why? What about if someone doesn't like you: is it okay to steal anything from you? And would that be okay with you?

• So we really don't have equal rights? There are classes of people and categories of people it's okay to steal from? REALLY?!

• The man who takes what is not his ruins his own life.

• What would it have to be before it could be justified as theft? Anything else valued at $450 and stolen would be classified theft. Maybe you should stop "picking up pens" during the day, since they don't RIGHTFULLY BELONG TO YOU?!

• If you can prove your allegations, then by all means do. That's your right. It is also Mr. Case's right to have his private property safeguarded by "security" personnel there for no other purpose! Theft isn't justified because the property owner is unpopular. It isn't justified in any case.

• Mr. Puddie wouldn't have to go through anything if he hadn't filched the pen in the first place. Two weeks of investigation went by, then someone said charges wouldn't be pressed before Mr. Puddie did the right thing. He knew exactly which pen was being sought and why. If it was something else more generally "recognized" as costing $450, would that REALLY change this incident of theft -- by a "security" agent?

• If the man had been "honest" in the first place he wouldn't have waited until it was announced that no charges would be pressed before he turned in the pen -- the exact pen he knew it was -- in the first place. It doesn't matter what the character of the property owner is; it's still his property, and not anyone else's. Theft is theft; no one is entitled to it for any reason. Two wrongs don't make a right.

• Who are you or anyone else to dictate who can spend their own money, and on what? You obviously have a computer or the equivalent, and Internet access, so you value throwing in your two cents here. Why is your right to your property (you did pay for it, right?) more valuable and important than anyone else's? You have a right to make your own choices about what you spend your money on. So does everyone else -- or at least they should. The fact of the matter is that the pen -- whether $450, $10 or $.50 -- is private property; it's not up for anyone else's fingers to filch. If it had been anything else worth $450, this would be more "worthy" of calling it by its right name: theft? Why?

• If it was anything else worth $450 it would be theft; why doesn't it matter just because it's a pen? The fact is the pen did not belong to anyone else. Even if it was only worth $.50, it's still private property, and belongs to no one but who paid for it.

• Being scum doesn't make taking the pen right. The fact is the pen didn't belong to anyone else.

• How many of you "innocently" picking up pens remember each one? And if you do this regularly, knowing the pen is not yours in the first place, why do you do it? Why does it matter how much the pen cost? Property is property; it's valuable to its owner, and in the case of theft, casual or deliberate, someone else, obviously, or it wouldn't be contended for. As I read the article, Puddie knew of the investigation for a couple of weeks; it was only after it was announced that charges wouldn't be pressed that he turned the pen in; he knew exactly which pen was in question, and why. He picked it up from the top of a cabinet? Really? If the pen was properly in a security scanning tray to begin with, but no one made the effort to get it back to its rightful owner, someone was stealing. TSA is supposedly in the "security" business to safeguard and protect passengers and their private property. Nothing at those checkpoints is free for the taking by anyone but rightful owners. This shows that up for the farce it is. As someone else pointed out, the pen wouldn't have gone missing in the first place if not for the illegal and invasive "security" measures that divests every person of their rights, property and dignity. If you think the TSA has and is protecting us, please name one single terrorist/terrorist plot they've saved us from. Just one. Only idiots and Nazis would see nothing wrong with this violation of basic, innate, inalienable personal rights. Just because something may be legal doesn't make it right. Legalese is a very bad thing to base an honest and honorable society on.

• Thou shalt not steal.  The TSA thug got off way too easy.  Police should ransack his home and seize all the other items this TSA thug has in his possession without a receipt.  Who knows how much this criminal has stolen while working for the TSA?

• The TSA thief knew the pen did not belong to him, but he took it anyway.  He should at minimum be required to reimburse the city for all the police time needed to solve the case and have his assets seized and a lien placed against his property until his debt to society is paid in full.  Plus go to jail for a long, long time with no hope of parole for the crime of possession of stolen property.  Maybe he should be tortured until he squeals about who really stole the pen.

• Possession of stolen property is count 1 against the TSA thug.  He says he didn't steal it, like every other thief.  So, he'll have to cough up which of his fellow gang members did steal the pen.  He should go to jail for a long time either way, with no hope of parole.

• all TSA agents should be publicly humiliated and imprisoned.

• Congratulations, you've been brainwashed. Either that or youre a TSA goon... or a porno-cancer-scanner manufacterer.

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• Wow if they are going to charge him for finding a lost item and returning it, we should charge anyone who has found anything and returned it. That or we need to right a new law that says if you steal a person's pen or pencil you should go to jail regardless of the value of the pen (can't dispute a case over a couple of nickels).

• If that is the case everyone in the world who mistakenly took a pen from someone should serve some time!!! That would be everyone! I have had my pen taken from my desk intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes it would "makes its round" around the office and I get it back, and sometimes it ends up pen jail with the other hundreds of pens on someone's desk. They aren't kleptos, its just some people mindlessly walk off with a pen.

• As someone that knows rick case personally because I worked for him, I can tell you that he is one of the biggerst scumbags and pieces of shit on this planet.  He AND his wife rita (we called them prick and cheetah) were the most cold, insensitive, and inhumane people you will ever meet.  If you were caught stealing from them, (padding your payroll check using various methods) it was called theft, and you were prosecuted immediately.  Yet if they stole from you, (ACCIDENTALLY forgetting to pay a commission on a car you sold, and cutting your agreed upon pay plan many times) it was called business.  Ladies and gentleman, I don't care what you think you know about them, how they give to charities and are pillars of their community, the truth is that they are what you find around the drain of your shower if you don't clean your tub for 10 years or so.  Back in the 70's Mr case was prosecuted for fraud and several other things, (which doesn't mean he shouldn't get a second chance of course), but then let me tell you about his "bikes for kids" program.  For many years he had people donate bikes for underprivilaged children, and this on the surface was a great program.  The bikes would get dropped off at our dealership, then they were supposed to get refurbished and donated to various groups.  Well what we all witnessed was a bit different!  The bikes would be dropped off, the nice ones would be cherry-picked by people that would simply come in and take them, (many non-needy people as was easy to see) then ricky boy had the rest of them thrown in large dumpsters and thrown away!  What a PILLER of the community!  More like a PARASITE folks I am telling you the way it is... signed, employee #  356,210,784,010.

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• to think the BSO take time out of their busy day to investigate a pen, and we cant get them to look for a missing person.

• you dont get it, and I dont think you will

• So by you saying nothing you're complicit in his crimes.  Or else you're just another lying asshole.  Either way, you're a dick.

• When I first heard about this case I was in shock and disbelief that someone could lose their job and be prosecuted for taking home a stupid (albeit pricey) pen. The prosecutors are going to have a heck of a time proving criminal intent on the part of Mr. Puddie. Mr. Case is only trying to make an example out of this innocent hard working man. If everyone was to go to prison for taking up a pen then I guarantee that these prisons would be overflowing right now. This is ridiculous and a total misuse of the judicial system.

• There was no intent to "take someone's property." The pen seemed to have no owner. Puddie did not even realize the pen was worth more than a measly $10. He gladly handed the pen over and apologized. He got his stupid pen back, this is ridiculous.

• This is ridiculous!!!! It's just a pen!!! He did not intend on stealing the stupid pen. Who carries around a pen worth more than ten bucks. Omg!!! This whole story just pisses me off!!! Why ruin/damage someones life because you forgot your pen!!! Most car dealers are all snakes and in this case it's obvious that Rick Case is one!!! I and probably many other people will NEVER buy a car from Rick Case.

• Why were Rick and Rita Case singled out for a special TSA screening anyway?  Because they look like first class nuts?  Were they being arrogant?  Did they think there could be potential WMD's under that woman's  garish hat?  Do these Cases think they're considered pillars of the community?  It just shows the greed of these car dealers.  I hope a bunch of people decide to not shop the Case Dealerships.  Enough to make his business lose the value of thousands of mont blanc pens.  That would be justice.

• have any of you ever been to one of his saturday morning pep talks before the dealership opens?  He shouts and squeals like a stuck pig to make his salespeople go out and get the moneyyyyyy from anyone who casually walks through the door.  It's obscene.  and his wife wears those goofy hats with the annie oakley braid.  This pen incident is just another example of the Case's have no class.  CASE CLOSED!

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• Its a shame that something like this had to happen to such a great guy, I've known this guy for years and he is no thief. My girl bought a car from rick case Honda, and after a few days the card started to give her problems. They wouldn't even fix it right away, had to keep going back to get them to fix it. They steal money from hard working people everyday, and this is what he does to a honest man?    

• Tsa mongrels are rapists in the Soetero mold tat will raphe, steal and murder. Soetero never created value in it's entire parasitical existence and wants to kill te USA damn him to hell !

• When I started reading this article I thought it was a joke. You're telling me that this punishment fits the "alleged crime"? An employee picks up what seems to be a stray pen, not left in "lost and found" but on a cabinet and he not only loses his job but also serves time in jail and faces those type of charges. This is extremely unfair and a waste of time. If the pen was such a "collectors item" why would Mr. Case be carrying it around as an ordinary writing pen? Did it lose more value because it wasn't in his possession for a couple of weeks? I am asking because I really want to know WHAT IS THE POINT of pressing such charges for what obviously was a mistake? Please, this is ridiculous and Mr. Case is ridiculous. I'm so sorry the Mr. Puddie has to go through this nonsense

• Rick is a car sales man he steals every day from people. Now his pen ends up missing he gets a honest man arrested for a pen. Come on let's be real who should be going to jail for stealing

• We are talking about a pen!! What is this world coming to, how many of us pick up pens doing the day. It was not that serious to be arrested over a pen. These charges need to be drop because there was no crime.

• I echo Mr. Kaboom's comment. Rick Case needs to be thankful that the pen was returned and he needs to drop the charges.

• I guess in this 'CASE', the pen really is mightier than the sword... get it? see what I did there? lol. I personally think that it's really messed up to ruin a mans life over a pen. Not cool Rick, not cool. He didn't steal it. 

• there are security cameras everywhere. that should clear things up

• If you can get anything off a car dealer, consider it genius, not theft.

• Stealing a pen from a car dealer?  Put the car dealer in jail!  Please.

• if you pick up a montblanc pen, you know its a quality tool as soon as you have it in your hand. just like a quality (snap-on) tool, vs a cheap Chinese tool. may not have known the value, but it was a better than junk cheap pen....  poor folks probably don't know the value, but they know quality.  (or he wouldn't have taken it)

• I would suggest that you not forget to forget to pick any of them up after putting them down in that case.

• M.L. Browne, Puddie did not steal the pen from prick rick, it was in cabinet! Puddie wasn't even at work when rick the prick forget the pen, and therefore his actions do not amount to theft from the legal and general definition of theft. you and Prick both need to check ur selves then again, it's obvious that prick is a miserable old man who take pleasure in making other people miserable and unhappy. Misery sure does love company. Keep your head up Toussain!

• This is totally not fair... and I'm not saying this because I know Mr. Puddie... Even when he got his pen back, Case is just being a jerk cuz he has the money to press charges... he'll get his just reward... 

• You are an ASSHOLE, the pen was not stolen, Puddie found it on top of a file cabinet and took it home, how many of us have been guilty of taking a pen at work or school, I have it is a common occurrence, not everyone places such value on an instrument that writes. Rick Case should be ashamed of himself for pressing charges, when he clearly had an alzheimers moment and forgot his pen at the screening checkpoint. WHY do you want to ruin this guys life? you got your pen back. I and everyone i know including everyone in the West Indian community which number in the thousands will NEVER buy another vehicle from your dealership YOU ARE A BONAFIDE ASSHOLE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!!!!

• Hey Rick Case, when your service writer sells somebody a set of brake rotors at $200 each that you purchase  at $25 each that is worse then stealing, you petty little pathetic person.   You probably have a gold toilet just like your old buddy Rothstien.

• Ok everyone is talking about how this is a pen the tsa person did not take the pen form case. Case left the pen so in my opinion it bso that don't have nothing to do at the air port that's making something out of nothing

• I am absolutely appalled. For something as innocent as picking up a pen, Rick Case is willing to ruin a young man's life? I can't tell how many times people have picked up my pen and walked off with it by mistake and vice versa, but never would I accuse them of being thieves.  It's a pen for Christ's sake, whether it be worth $10 or $450! Let's get our priorities right Rick Case! You will never ever get my business again and I will be sure to spread the word!

• It is absurd that the owner of a car dealership would attempt to ruin the life of a hard-working man, simply for returning his property. If the pen were not returned, that would be a different story. However, Rick Case will gain nothing from pursuing this matter in courts. This is another frivolous lawsuit that is wasting tax payers money!

• Wow grow up with your response, So because a man needs a job it;s okay for this to happen, Shut up there are horrible police officers out there but don't we need them for order/ I guess your going to protect and serve.

• Your only feeling that way because you collect pens, No they are not in their right because they don't have evidence that he intentionally stole the pen, I pick up pens all the time and I could careless about  there worth just because it slips into my bag does  that means I stole it???? No I would NOT slip your money into my bag thats stealing cause I know the worth I wouldn't slip you  watch into my bag, I wouldn't  slip your wallet into my bag, I hope you understand where I'm going with this, He did not know any better. Think outside your little box...

• Wow, I'm sorry for what happened. I can clearly see something like this happening to me because honestly I have no regards for pens because I find myself losing them borrowing them and never giving them back and lending them out and never expecting them back in return because a pen has never been that damn serious, I think TSA is crappy people and I'm sorry but since working with them since 09 couldn't you tell who you were dealing with? I think ruining someone's life for a pen is the most dumbest thing ever why don't the law focus on keeping baby killers Like Ms.Anthony off the streets instead of trying to to send one of innocent people to jail for something so weak! TSA and the Police Department should be ashamed of themselves, people that say it's okay for this to happen you must have done some Sh*tty stuff in your life to think prison isn't serious, We know what type of people should have a criminal record and I know for one he shouldn't based on the severity of the situation, also stop wasting my damn tax money on stupid cases like this, this is clearly a waste of tax dollars and time.... TSA,Rick Case and THE BSO police department please get yourself together. 

• sad story here about my old friend from the school days and a douche bag with a $400 pen... Toussain, keep your head up homie.... this is not right, i have tons of pens i've found from all over....but to lose your job over... and to get arrested... SMH...

• If it's not theft, then how can charges be pressed?

• Rick Case comes off as awfully petty. Not everyone is familiar with luxury goods, but those who own them might be a bit more careful with them before losing an item and ruining someone's life over it. Bet Rick Case can't figure out why caring people have come to find the wealthy among us wanting as human beings.

• Sorry to hear about this. Absolutely ridiculous over a pen! What in the world does anyone need with $450 pen anyway?? Will definitely keep you in my prayers.. 

• Dis sum DUM FUKD UP bs... but doe gone shake dat bs. 

• we need to protest this! people shouldnt have to sit and take this kind of treatment from these asshols! rick case im going to protest outside your business douuchebag! watch!

• f&^k ur stupidass pen! you took someone's only means of income! you jerk! shove that pen where the sun dont shine! 

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