ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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.Its not just tescos.
The problem is that detaining a shoplifter, waiting for the police, fannying about with statements etc, possibly having to give time off to staff to appear in court....its all a massive inconvenience for the shop staff and if they are short-staffed anyway, it just makes things even worse. And even if it does get to court, what happens? the shoplifter gets told off and maybe 20 minutes community service.
Its just not worth the bother to prosecute.
Plus there is always the chance that when trying to stop someone, they will go mental and get violen, pull a knife or whatever...no one wants to risk it.
(, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:27, Reply)
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