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[Sage04]

I think the Prosecutor used the wrong word. So he wasn't stealing anything, was he just plundering around. Doesn't make sense.

[RedTop]

As a curious child, I loved to plunder in things that didn't belong to me, like jewelry boxes and closets where there were pocketbooks and high heeled shoes!  

I never stole anything, and family learned it was a great way to keep me occupied.   My habit was actually started by my family;  grandmothers entertained me with their costume jewelry, as did teenage cousins who no longer had toys in their bedrooms for me to play with.   

In this area of WV, plundering and stealing have different meanings.   

[Goldengate8361]

The prosecutor probably just used the wrong word. It happens.

[bonnielu]

In some areas of the country it means to rummage.  Not a legal term as I  understand it.  

[gertrudecloset]

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@PickyPicky3 wrote:

As usual, I'm watching Court TV, in this case the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in Brunswick, Georgia.

Yesterday, while questioning a police officer, the prosecutor asked, "So he wasn't stealing anything -- he was just plunderin' around, right?"

My northeastern ears have never heard "plunderin' around." To me, to plunder means to steal. 

Could the prosecutor have made a language mistake, or is this a phrase used in the southeast?

**** Now they're discussing a police term "trespass-out." That's also new to me.

****Now they're talking about the phrase plundering around!!! Saying it doesn't mean stealing. Help!

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Sounds like a southern saying (South Eastern portion of the USA).  Maybe prosecutor has roots there.  She may have been trying to be "sarcastic."  Plunder means to take with force.

[gertrudecloset]

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@SXMGirl wrote:

My grandmother grew up very poor in the south and she used plundering that meant to be going through things that did not belong to you.  She never said blundering.  It may be a regional word, like many that we have.

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Yes @SXMGirl .....southern vernacular