Black, White, Or Other? lists a particularly heinous crime/news story, with incriminating bits of info {redacted} for the sake of confidentiality. Your job is to guess whether the protagonist is black, white, or the omnipresent "other", and to tell why you guessed how you did. The best guessplanation wins a week's supply of Cyber CapriSuns. And yeah, you could prolly Google the news story to find out the race of the person, but what sorta loser does that? Seriously. And if you already know about the story, and thus the answer, sit this one out. Be a good sport. Don't cheat.
Anyways, here's today's entry...
A 24-year-old {redacted} man accused of trying to cash a stolen $10 lottery at ticket Wednesday is being held in the {redacted} County jail on a felony grand theft charge.Question: Is the genius who got caught trying to cash a $10 winner Black, White, or Other? Why?
{redacted} is also charged with felony counts of illegal possession of a lottery ticket and possession of {redacted drug} with intent to deliver in connection with the arrest. {redacted} was identified as the suspect after a store clerk got the license plate number of a man who went to a convenience store at the {redacted} and {redacted} roads intersection around 6 p.m. Wednesday and tried to cash a lottery ticket that had been reported stolen from different convenience store in {redacted} the day before.
When the clerk asked the man for his ID, he ran way, according reports. The clerk followed, got a license plate number, and called {redacted} police. Officers located the car, which was being driven by {redacted}, and found found several stolen lottery tickets, three stolen checks, and an undisclosed amount of cash, according to reports.
Police also found 22 grams of {redacted drug} in the car, according to reports. {redacted} police later determined the lottery tickets, worth $2,500, were stolen from a tobacco store on the 3100 block of {redacted} Boulevard in {redacted} Wednesday morning. That group of tickets contained two winners — one ticket worth $100 and the other worth $10, according to {redacted} Lottery officials.
Officials say {redacted} was trying to cash the $10 ticket just before he got arrested.
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Sadly, I'm ruling out white and leaving it as a toss up between other and black.
Based on the fact, I don't readily recall stories written in such a manner with a white perp.
Hey there!
How would ANY of us know the race of the person arrested just by reading the story?
Anyone who answers that they know the race of the person involved just by hearing about a crime is only operating with assumptions.
{shaking my head}
Again I'm going with white. Mainly because my frame of reference is white and it sounds like something some of the people in my former poor white neighbourhood would do. But then again, they could pull any one of the stunts mentioned in previous editions of this feature.
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Concerning BWBTT comment, I thought the same thing when I read this one. It seems as though we operate our racial assumptions off of the peripheral information. Such as if we knew what kind of drug that was found on the suspect. If it was weed, or crack, well immediately we'd suspect it was black.
I guess it's amazing to see what kind of clues one has to go on when other context clues are absent.
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Very true. I remove some basic info like names, cities, street names, and yes, even drugs because they'd be dead giveaways.
Or would they?
The point again, is to challenge your assumptions and why you make them. As I've said before, the answers to BWoO are seldom the obvious one.
Just being random.
I love your location:
DC Uhhhrrrea!
Former Silver Spring head checking in right here...
You left out every single clue.
I don't know the location. If I knew the uuhrrea, I would be able to make a reasonable guess.
Is this in DC?
PG County? Montgomery County? East of Georgia Ave? West of 14th Street?
What was the drug?
Did this bama have any jawns with him?
Give me some hints and I might enter your contest.
Scratch that. Never mind.
I don't want to make assumptions and have my commentary come back to haunt me.
I'm thinking black because you had to remove so many street names. It probably happened on a Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. Blvd. (paging Chris Rock)
The perp is white. This story happened in Montana, I think. I lost the URL and can't seem to Google the story either. My bad.
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