Believe It Or Not --- "Florida Food-Scam" WTF

George Jolicoeur is 600 pounds but he still has a way to go to equal Manuel Garza, 42, who, at 1200 pounds is the fattest man in the world

Manuel Garza

Not only are some banks too big to fail. Some criminals are too big to jail. A 600-pound Florida man with a long record of scamming restaurants and convenience stores pleaded guilty this week to five charges that he sought refunds by making false claims, including one that a $50 dollar order of beef jerky from a 7-Eleven was moldy.

George Jolicoeur, who has a long record of scamming restaurants and convenience stores, weighs 600-pounds. Authorities decided he was too fat to jail. The no-contest plea was the best prosecutors could hope for. If they brought him to trial, the state would have to pay to transport him to the courthouse from the nursing home where he's been bed-ridden for months. It would have also been obliged to pay for any medical care care he might have needed. So they struck a deal with lawyers for the accused man, George Jolicoeur, 38. If he pleaded no contest to five counts of theft, he wouldn't go to jail or serve probation. He's in his prison cell, Assistant State Attorney Kyan Ware said, the Orlando Sentinel reported. "He's not getting out of that bed."

The case began in 2007, when the 7-Eleven owner complained to police about Jolicoeur's bogus refund attempt. When Officer Jeff Sabounji went to Jolicoeur's home in Sanford, near Orlando, to arrest him, he heard what sounded like a male voice trying to sound like a female saying , Jolicoeur was not at home. This was followed by a female saying , "George" turn yourself in.

On his way to the police station for questioning, according to the police report, Jolicoeur told the officer. "The beef jerky got me." Jolicoeur was arrested two months later for a similar scam at another 7-Eleven in which he put a gallon of ice cream on the counter and said he had 10 of them that was damaged, for which he received a false reimbursement of $50. Since his 2007 crime spree, Jolicoeur became ill. He was eventually transferred from a hosiptal to a nursing facility, where he breathes with the help of a respirator. In 2005, he pleaded no contest to five similar crimes.
My spin on the food scam: April fools day 2010 was not a good day for Jolicoeur or maybe it was the best day he's had in a long time.....sorry to say, no more beef jerky for the fat man. Well hope he has learn his lesson and learned that money and wonem is not the only thing that will get you in trouble, you have to be careful with how much food you eat. [ I wonder can he find his poker].