Another foreclosure vandalism story debunked

The media never learns, does it?

Last year, the media hyped a story about foreclosure victims allegedly "stealing" furniture and letting pets smear crap on the walls of their foreclosed houses. This panic was quickly debunked: There were no more than a handful of isolated instances of foreclosure vandalism.

Now the media - well, really just Fox News - is spreading almost the exact same story. And it's about to be discredited even more readily.

The gist of this story is that residents who lost their homes to foreclosures are "stealing" appliances and furniture.

Um, no. The homeowners purchased these items separately from the house. If you put money into improving your house with new appliances, these improvements are yours to keep - foreclosure or not. It's impossible to "steal" something that's already yours.

Apparently, however, greedy banks think everything is theirs. If they touch something, it's theirs. If they look at something, it's theirs. If they think about something, it's theirs. Just like the villain in 'Elmo In Grouchland'. And why wouldn't they think it, after they got a bailout worth hundreds of billions, courtesy of the taxpayers?

The media's yellow journalism never ceases to astound. Banks are fleecing hard-working Americans, the economy has been collapsing for years, and Fux is making a story of a few stoves getting taken from foreclosed homes?

To the banks, I say this: Suck. It. Up.