Homeless Man Breaks into Closed Northern California Bar, Sells Beer

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Cops Arrest Transient After Seeing Him in Newspaper Article about Penryn Club Reopening


Kristen Stone
FOX40 News
July 21, 2010

PENRYN — It had seemed like the shuttered Valencia Club had a new lease on life. Alcohol was flowing, and customers were crowding the bar.

But Placer County detectives say the landmark business in Penryn was actually being operated by a local transient, who broke into the club, re-opened it, and posed as the new owner.

Investigators arrested Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, of Newcastle, on charges of burglary and selling alcohol without a license.

According to Placer County Sheriff's detectives, Kevie had learned that the Valencia club lost its liquor license and shut down because he worked on the clean-up crew for the previous owner. Kevie allegedly broke into the building on July 16th, placed an open sign in the window, and started selling alcohol with a six pack of beer he purchased from across the street.

His ruse was exposed when Placer County Detective Jim Hudson recognized Kevie's picture in a July 19th article published in the Auburn Journal about the reopening of the Valencia Club. Hudson arrived at the club and found Kevie selling alcohol to customers without a liquor license. Kevie was booked into the Placer County Jail, and a large amount of alcohol and cash was confiscated from the club.

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http://www.latimes.com/features/odd-news/ktxl-news-valencia-club,0,6685147.story

Give this guy a job! Sounds proactive to me....

[xultar]

1. Proves the GOBP dead wrong about unemployment.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Ye Olde Entrepreneur.

[bobbolink]

3. !

:applause:

[Soylent Brice]

9. no shit!

lol

[Canuckistanian]

4. Very enterprising

And it all started with a single six-pack.

Beer is magic, I tell you.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Must give the guy some credit. He sure was out there trying to make a living!!!

[XemaSab]

6. Put the dude out on work release

:D

[zipplewrath]

7. There is something hard about this

Yes, he did it wrong. But man, it's more a case of misdirected enthusiasm than criminal mischief. Suspend his sentence and find him a business partner.

[AnArmyVeteran]

11. A good friend went to a closed Sears on Sunday and sold their Christmas trees.

Brian, an great friend of mine went to a Sears store on a Sunday to buy a Christmas tree. But he soon realized the store was closed Brian never bothered with little technicalities like 'rules' so he decided to get a tree anyway. He walked through the trees which were in the parking lot and while he was looking other people began showing up. Then they asked Brian how much the trees were. Brian was never one to hold back from seizing an opportunity so he started selling trees and even letting customers bargain with him. No one even thought Brian wasnt a Sears employee.

He stayed there several hours and made quite a bit of money. Brian didn't do it for personal gain though. He used the money he 'earned' to buy presents for over a dozen little kids and Brian didn't keep a dime. I thought what he did was very creative and a lot of kids ended up having a very good Christmas that year. Brian was a Robin Hood type guy who loved to take from the rich to give to the poor.

Brian was the ultimate non-conformist. One day while shopping in a grocery store with my Dad and I, Brian was hungry so he decided to make a sandwich. First he got a loaf of bread and took two slices out of it. Then he opened up a mayonnaise jar and put some on the bread. When we got to the luncheon meat section he pulled several pieces of sliced beef out of the package. And then to finish it off he went and got a few pickle slices out of a jar and put them on his sandwich. We continued shopping as Brian slowly ate the sandwich he made. By the time we all got to the check out Brian was just finishing his sandwich and then he asked the clerk if she had a paper towel so he could wipe some mayonaise off his hands. Brian had a lot of guts. There wasn't a rule that existed that Brian couldn't get around.

Lest anyone attack my friend let me say this. How many of you ate a grape or another piece of produce or candy while at a grocery store? Brian didn't do any worse than that except he was a 'bit' more creative. :)


BTW & FYI: The statute of limitations is up so no criminal charges could be filed. Besides, who would want to turn in Robin Hood? :)

[struggle4progress]

12. I saw a great short film twenty or thirty years ago that followed

a guy through a grocery store doing just that: sandwich, quart of milk, some fruit, cupcakes. B&W. Probably shot between 65 and 75. I thought it was amusingly cheeky. <edit:> Can't remember the title exactly: something like "Living Off the Land"

But I didn't think it was so funny a few years before that when I was hitch-hiking through California and caught a ride. We stopped for gas. When we got back on the road, the guy started unloading his pockets of stuff that stuck to his fingers in the gas station convenience store, and decided he trusted me enough to tell me he'd skipped out on a minor detention at a Federal Military Base and had been gone long enough to be AWOL: I sweated about possible scenarios if a cop tried to pull him over until we parted ways

[AnArmyVeteran]

15. Thanks for your story! And the name of the movie.

I'm sure my friend never saw that movie. He did things like that all the time. I'm going to have to check out that movie though. Thanks!

[zipplewrath]

13. Nice attempt

But to a great degree the guy didn't "steal" anything, as they do in your scenario. Yes, he used a building that wasn't his, but the building wasn't being used for anything. Strangely, he used it for exactly what it was built for. It's vastly more like the guy that starts out doing some work "on the side" and slowly increases to the point where he's not "doing it on the side", he is "running a business". You can bet that between those two points he went afoul of alot of laws. Probably didn't pay all the taxes he should have, probably didn't collect sales taxes. He probably didn't have a business license when he started out. May have even run it out of his house which was a violation of zoning. The work may have interfered with his "regular" job at times. And he might even have made copies at work.

It's not so much a defense of the actions as it is placing them in context. A homeless guy, someone who already exists on the edge of the law anyways, finds a way to make some money. Strangely, it is in a manner far more "admirable" than just standing on a street corner begging for cash. It is unfortunate that it also is illegal as heck. As I say, it seems in societies interest not to so much "punish" him as to redirect him. He's on the right track, he is just screwing up the details a bit.

[rocktivity]

8. Hey, he could have kept all the booze for himself

:crazy:
rocktivity

[slampoet]

10. Since this is FOX news reporting, are they torn a whether to denigrate the homeless or call the cops

anti-business regulators?

[Leopolds Ghost]

14. This is why we are a dying civilization.

Lack of a certain love of liberty and respect for ones fellow man. Not to mention lack of an enterprising spirit.

Instead we get TV shows on prison boot camps where juvenile offenders are indoctrinated into a military-style unquestioning obedience and agression, with being shipped into the actual juvenile hall (where they will be raped) as a punishment for nonconformism.

And note that you'll get just as many scumbags on the left as the right trying to denounce this homeless guy for what he'd done.

Not so long ago, the cops would probably be sidling up to the bar.

Of course the fascist element has always been there, too.