A delivery truck mistakenly brought an 86-inch TV to his house. The cops took him to jail.
By Dugan Arnett
15 hrs ago A truck pulled up at Nick Memmo’s East Freetown house last month bringing an unexpected delivery — and a dilemma.
Nick Memmo in the living room area of his East Freetown home.© Debee Tlumacki for the Boston Globe The delivery was a $2,700, 86-inch flat screen TV that Memmo hadn’t ordered. The dilemma? Whether to keep it or send it back.
But who are we kidding?
“It was like winning a scratchers ticket,†said Memmo, a muscly 35-year-old Massachusetts native who runs a construction management company. “I thought it was my turn to luck out on something in life.â€
It soon became more complicated than that. In fairly short order, police would surround his house, take him to jail, and slap him with a felony larceny charge. The case has burned up the Internet ever since, a moral Rorschach test of where blame belongs. Even the law seems murky. But Memmo himself is quite certain: He didn’t steal anything.
“It’s not like I ran out of Walmart,†he said. “I didn’t set out looking for this.â€
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