06-29-2012, 07:45 AM
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Jackie Whiton has worked at the Big Apple Convenience store in Peterborough, New Hampshire, for four years, but last month she was unceremoniously let go for standing up for what she believed was right.
On May 29, a customer came into the store and tried to buy cigarettes with his EBT debit card and Mrs Whiton refused to let tax payers foot the bill for his addiction.
The company that owns the store said that by law, the customer had every right to use his card as he pleased and she had crossed the line and had to go.
Mrs Whiton told the Sentinel Source that on that day in May, a young man came into the store and asked for a pack of cigarettes.
When she asked him for his ID, he handed her an EBT debit card.
'I made the statement, "Do you think myself, that lady and that gentlemen should pay for your cigarettes?" and he responded "yes,"' Mrs Whiton said to the Sentinel Source.
Another man in line told Mrs Whiton: 'You said just exactly what I was thinking.'
The man left without his cigarettes, but his godmother later returned to demand the man get his smokes, according to the Boston Herald.
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