Chick-fil-A founder shows mercy to vandals

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Walter H. Schneider
Updated 2019 01 30: Added links to related articles.

From OneNewsNow.com

Associated Press – 2008 08 01

Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy. NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – Chick-fil-A restaurant founder S. Truett Cathy has decided two [pre-teen-aged] girls accused of causing $30,000 in damage to his home should be punished with a writing assignment instead of charges.

New Smyrna Beach police told the Daytona Beach News-Journal the preteens broke into Cathy’s home two weeks ago and sprayed fire extinguishers, threw eggs and left water running in the kitchen.
The 87-year-old Cathy — who founded the fast food chain known for its cow billboards — said he didn’t want to prosecute the girls and leave them with a criminal record.
“I tried to be lenient with them, but wanted to punish them,” Cathy told the newspaper. “I wanted to show them there was a better way than the way they were going.”
What seemed to bother Cathy, who lives on Atlanta’s Southside, most about the crime were the “bad words” scrawled throughout the residence, dubbed the Chick-fil-A lodge….(Full Story)

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