Grand Lunacy
on September 4, 2017
at 1:23 am
Apparently it’s “the offense of illegally taking the property of another in which the value of the property taken is greater than that set for petit larceny.” Who knew?
Bug Martini
Random nonsense three days a week
Once upon a time, you noticed that you keep defining words without looking them up, and dubbed them “Dumbass Definitions”. I believe you now have enough that you could do a five-day week of reruns with them, but don’t quote me on that because only one of them has the titile “Dumbass Definitions.” Which is mildly bothersome, because they are always hilarious.
+1 to the idea of collecting these.
You could also add “Dumbass definitions” to the title of each.
From wikipedia: “The classification of larceny as grand or petit larceny originated in an English statute passed in 1275. (“petit” is a French word for “small”). Both were felonies. However, the punishment for grand larceny was death while the punishment for petit larceny was forfeiture of property to the crown and whipping. The classification was based on the value of the property taken. The offense was grand larceny if the value of the property taken was greater than twelve pence, approximately the value of a sheep in the thirteenth century.”
Wouldn’t it suck to steal a sheep, but have it accidentally be a valuable sheep, so when you’re caught you die instead of get whipped?
How about you add to the value of the sheep by serving it along with whipped cream?
You monster! Then it would be supreme larceny!
We’d have to think up a fate worse than death to punish it. Maybe you’d have to spend time with my in-laws.
And later on, “petit” became “petty”.
So if a police officer dealing with drug offences is a narc, is a cop pursuing larcenists a lark?
(And if you fight super thugs, you’re Tony Stark. Sure, I’ll see myself out.)
Watched a tiny diapered infant trying to make off with a toy carousel once. The box was almost half her size, she could grip it only by holding her arms wide. She got about four feet with it, dropped it, and couldn’t figure out how to pick it up. So she went back to the shelf for another one. 🙂 She didn’t have a mask on but it was way too cute!
I thought Grande Larceny was the act of buying a large coffee at a Starbucks?
I believe that’s called Grande Stupide.
“You might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb”