Lawrence Man Arrested for Stealing Toilet Paper from Work...I Kinda Thought Free TP Was a Perk?

This is what it's come to? Locked and Secured TP?

The Daily Mail - David Pinkham, of Massachusetts, was caught out when police spotted him leaving Lawrence City Hall with a case of unused toilet paper. Security videos were used as evidence that he had entered the building empty handed, before leaving with the case.  Further investigations revealed he had even more about his person, with six rolls hidden down his pants. A police report stated that he 'pulled six tightly folded toilet paper rolls from his buttocks and groin area' at the police station. The 53-year-old admitted it was not the first time he had swiped loo roll from his place of work, and confessed to taking toilet paper and other items on five or six occasions. Mr Pinkham was charged with larceny over $250.

Is that illegal? I kinda thought everyone did this to be honest, like it was a standard perk that everyone was entitled to after their first day on the job.  I'm not saying I've done it, but but that's more because my office gets the rough sand-paper toilet paper, presumably to stop theft. But I've definitely thought about it, and am pretty sure others that don't share my refined taste in TP have done it.

If Mr. Pinkham is guilty of anything here its just stupidity/greed. Why the hell did you need 6 rolls of TP bro? What did you eat for lunch? Aside from it being free, the other plus about stealing TP from your work is you don't have to buy it in embarrassingly large bulk quantities like you do at the store.  Like you could have just taken 1 or 2 rolls for your family for the week and called it a day, no one would have been the wiser and you would have spared yourself the shame of having to buy a 24 pack of TP at Target while everyone stares at you trying to figure out if you have crones disease. Instead you're being charged with grand theft toilet paper.




PS: The irony is not lost that Lawrence Police are arresting people for toilet paper theft while real crime runs ammock, and a shady borderline criminal runs the city as mayor. Not lost at all.