Detective McNulty: Let me understand you. Every Friday night you and your boys shoot crap, right? And every Friday night your pal 'Snot Boogie,' he'd wait till there was cash on the ground and then he would grab the money and run away?"
Witness: [nods]
Detective McNulty: And you'd let him do that?
Witness: We'd catch 'im and beat his ass but ain't nobody let it go past that.
Long pause.
Detective McNulty: I gotta ask you. If every time 'Snot Boogie' would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?
Witness: What?
Detective McNulty: If 'Snot Boogie' always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Witness: Got to. This is America, man.
(The Wire, Season 1, Episode 1. I think I'm beginning to get why Nate & Shanna are so addicted to this show.)
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