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Thomas Etheredge, the cowboy entrepreneur whose dream of a Western-themed amusement park landed him in prison for securities fraud, is scheduled to be released Monday, the state Department of Corrections confirmed Wednesday.
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^^ Beat me to it.
This article is confusing to me. This guy was doing time for fraud, but the investors he defrauded are forgiving him and saying it is good he gets to get out of jail? Doesn't make sense to me. Did I miss something?!
"Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster" - Dave Matthews Band
What good did it do them in the first place? The current financial state of the investors shouldn't have anything to do with his past fraudulent activity.
Hopefully neither his sentence, nor the attitude of his victims is "Go to jail until the people you defrauded make a bunch of money."
Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."
Didn't mean to imply any of that. I took from Bunky's post a question of why would someone forgive him and I tried to look at it totally from a victim's standpoint. If I had moved on with my life I would have no problem forgiving him.
ETA: I'm sure if I hadn't moved on with my life (financially) I'd still find it in my heart to forgive, too.
Yeah, I wondered why people were correcting the verbage...until I remembered this is a site full of coaster enthusiasts. Like, if I happen to be discussing a 203 foot coaster and, in the interest of brevity describe it as "the 200-footer," look out. I've just invited a ****storm of Rain Man tantrums.
Considering the name of the park, I thought it was funny. I took it seriously at first and then got the joke after looking at it closer.
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