Dale Peterson doesn’t give a rip about much, but beer and cashews apparently do make the short list of things that are not only worth giving a rip about — but also going to jail for.
Here’s what we’ve got right now: Cops. Cashews. and Cowboy hats. #alpolitics
— Yellowhammer (@YHPolitics) March 27, 2013
An employee at the Sam’s Club in Hoover confirmed to me this evening that Dale Peterson was arrested in their store today for attempting to steal…CASHEWS?! Yes. Cashews. He was taken to the Hoover City Jail and the Hoover Police later confirmed to me that he was released on bond.
According to Dale Peterson, in October of last year he was wrongly accused of steeling two cases of beer and as a result was arrested by the Hoover Police Department. This makes his second run-in with HPD in the last six months. When pressed to explain the beer incident, Peterson told Matt Murphy, “I had no intention of stealing. The only intention I had when I crossed that line was to go pee.”
I’ve never drank beer…but if I did, I’m assuming I’d need something to eat with it. Amirite, @mattmurphyshow?
— Yellowhammer (@YHPolitics) March 28, 2013
Sam’s Club employees declined my request to get into the details of how Cashew-Gate played out in the store, but we have since learned that Peterson grabbed a package of nuts and ate them as he walked around the store, then put them back on the shelf and left without paying. That’s when security detained him until the Hoover Police came and got him.
Attempts to reach Peterson have been unsuccessful to this point, but we’ll keep trying.
[UPDATE: 12:02 a.m.] Dale Peterson has given the Twitterverse his side of the story.
I picked up some cashews when I got to Sams this afternoon. Ate a handful. Put them in my cart & kept shopping. (cont’d)
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
an hour later, when I went to checkout, I put the cashews back (forgetting I had eaten a few), purchased $700 of merchandise & went to jail
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
Here’s the new Dale Peterson booking photo. twitter.com/mattmurphyshow…
— Matt Murphy (@mattmurphyshow) March 28, 2013
UPDATE:
Peterson also took to Twitter tonight to get a few other things off his chest:
Sometimes there are coincidences. Sometime there are conspiracies. And sometimes there are just facts. #SomethingAintRight
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
How, exactly, did @yhpolitics know about my day & my handful of cashews before my wife did?
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
@sblakeharris , when @yhpolitics is determined to make you out to be a thug & criminal, all questions are pressing. (Consider the source)
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
It wasn’t right, but it wasn’t intentional… @yhpolitics wants you to believe otherwise. Again – Consider your source. #alpolitics
— Dale Peterson (@Dale_Peterson) March 28, 2013
