Julie Bailey fails in Taco John's robbery while drunk, pregnant and armed with a hammer

• Yes, you're the only one who's horrified by the lack of compassion.

• Am I the only one who is horrified by the lack of compassion in the comments about this story? This woman is a real person with horrific problems; she's not a cartoon or a character in a film. Can't anyone imagine the desperation she must have felt, pregnant, broke and facing homelessness? For a moment, stop snickering and put yourself in her place. Imagine being so terrified that you will be thrown out on the street that you agree to commit robbery. Yes, it was the wrong thing to do. Yes it was stupid in the extreme and she deserved to be jailed but if the sheer terror and panic she must have felt doesn't make you feel pity for a fellow human being who was pushed to the wall then you are less than human.

• SHE was ENGAGED??? And I'm still single? Go figure ...

• Frank, I agree that Erin and other CP writers do some great stories. But this is The Blotter, a blog about the news, NOT the news. Please follow my lead and realize the stories here are quickly churned out dispatches that RARELY contain more than a brief summary of another story that is linked to in the post. Cut and Paste is the norm, not an aberration. In re: your question- this story was in the news. Hart's job is to post blog posts about stories in the news. Everyday he posts as many as 10-15 stories. You certainly have a right to not like to read these stories but it's not like Hart is going out of his way to post "funny" stories about alcoholics. And he is not particularly playing up the alcohol factor in this post. Sorry for the brusqueness of my first comment but SO many people don't understand the above facts and post ridiculous comments. I can see now that you are much more sensible than many CP commenters.

• @Frank My comment above was actually to you, not Vitajex. @Vitajex Sorry about that.

• @Vitajex Don't be a hater.

• What a shining beacon of humanity. Pregnant, drunk, drug addicted, criminally insane. There was never a better case for state neutering.

• @Vitajex Perhaps you have a valid point that I am self-righteous, but I offer this in my self-defense: City pages is one of the last places in the metro that could potentially do some real good with journalism--Erin Carlyle and others are real journalists that occasionally do very good stories absent a corporate bias. This little blog is a potentially valuable site to glean a news digest and to poke fun at fat cat hypocrites. Posting stories about the foibles of powerless alcoholics does nothing noble, and I don't find it particularly funny. If I may ask, what is that you see funny about alcoholics doing stupid things? Perhaps you'd like the bumfight websites, where exploitative college kids pay homeless people to fight each other....

• Ignorant self-righteousness is funny. I like reading this site, because it's great that commenters can post comments about stories and demonstrate that they are humorless bores with a deep misconception about where they are and what they are reading.

• Alcoholism is funny. I like reading this site, because it's great that Hart can cut stories about alcoholics doing funny things and paste them here. Now THAT's journalism.

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