Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Jail or Packers?

Jail or Packers?

As Jack Benny said when the robber asked "your money or your life," I'm thinking, I'm thinking:

It's a choice that could give pause to some Green Bay Packers fans. A judge ordered a woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family's Packers tickets next season to charity.

Sharon E. Rosenthal, 59, took more than $3,000 from labor union accounts before she left the organization, according to a criminal complaint. She was sentenced Friday in Winnebago County Circuit Court on one felony count of theft.

Judge Scott Woldt offered her the decision to either serve the jail time or donate her family's four seats in the Packers' three-game season package to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The jail time or the ticket donation will occur as part of Rosenthal's overall two-year period of probation.


UPDATE: No jail, no Packers, she gave up the tickets. Some people are just fair-weather fans.

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