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Enter LOOKING FORWARD IN ANGST JASON LINKINS HUFFINGTON 02.02.14 GETTING AWAY WITH IT IN WEST VIRGINIA OU KNOW, if I were to walk out of my office right now with a couple of cans of spray paint and a ball peen hammer, and set about vandalizing the local Citibank branch across the street, those actions would carry some natural consequences. It’s pretty much a given that I’d be arrested AP PHOTO/STEVE HELBER Y on the spot, earn a no-brainer arraignment, and get convicted in a fairly open-and-shut case. I’d have to make legal and financial restitution, and maybe do a little time. I’d certainly be stripped of a lot of privileges. It would be really hard for The Huffington Post to continue to extend the courtesy of continued employment to me. My life, in other words, would get a lot harder to live, and deservedly so. Those sorts of actions bring a Work continued around storage tanks at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W. Va., on Jan. 13.