Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

In other news…..7 police officers from West Yorkshire Police arrested a 16 year old girl for saying that one of them looked like her lesbian grandmother. And they did inside the girl’s home.

Yes, 7 police officers. Now try and get the police to arrest real criminals. Good luck. These clowns are supposed to enforce law and order. What a joke.

It happens in my village. They go into the coop, help themselves and then leave without paying. The community police officer told us himself at the last village meeting.

@ZeldaWillTellYourFortune
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/shoplifting-california-prop-47-reduced-penalties/
Sacramento Assistant DA agrees.

I hope so. Can't happen soon enough!

@MymateDave We are not allowed to approach shop lifters for our own safety. Always been tesco policy. We had 2 men fill bags with 1.2k worth of alcohol this week and just run out the store. We have 1 security guard, but thieves know he does late shift so come bright and early.

I someone who was security at Tescos. He was told not to physically apprehend shoplifters. He did, hurt his back, and got a telling off.

My prediction is in the end you will not be allowed into a shop unless you have an app on your phone to validate your credit card details, like one of those Amazon Automated shops.

There will be barriers at the entrance to stop you getting in if you can't pay or have caused trouble in there before.

You’re not painting the ne’erdowell in a victim status with this scenario. So it’s unpalatable here.

Spot on, @PriamFarrl .

I do feel you are over thinking it. The average Ned doesn’t think that big. He sees his mate take a bar of chocolate and nothing happens. He takes two bars of chocolate and nothing happens. Him and his mate then take a couple of beers and nothing happens. They then get to realise that they can stroll into a shop, fill their pockets and nothing happens. I very much doubt they have much of an idea who the prime minister is let alone their law making or breaking.

No need to get personal. That's so frequently the case on here. I disagree, therefore I'm "silly".
No point in discussing a serious issue when you get personal insults.
I'm not stooping to that level.

Of course not. How silly are you ?

However, the massed ranks of society see the people who make the laws break them with no consequences, and wonder what the point of "the law" is.

Especially when this thread shows that "the law" is very much about picking on the easy targets, and leaving the harder ones "for someone else".

Corruption is corrosive - the clue is in the first four letters being shared. If you tolerate it (and the UK seems to positively encourage it) then don't be surprised when there is no respect for "the law".

It starts very very early. As I often like to say: "I pay my taxes. It buys me civilisation". With more posters than not on this thread bemoaning our descent into anarchy, it seems a fair stance. If we taxed a bit more, and spent a bit more, we'd have a slightly nicer civilisation.

Allowing shoplifters to blatantly steal right in front of staff with no consequences must be horrible for their mental health and sense of dignity, even if they do work for a big supermarket.

No fucks to give about the fact that it is indicative of the increasingly lawless society we live in?

No fucks to give about the poor staff who have to work in an environment where this happens?

No fucks to give about the knock-on effect on prices?

No fucks to give about the fact that people allowed to get away with this sort of theft will feel emboldened and might be trying your front door to see if they can walk in and take something?
No fucks to give about the fact that the men stealing large quantities of alcohol which they may not otherwise be able to afford will probably get blind drunk and engage in more extreme anti-social behaviour/violence etc?

So shoplifters look at Boris Johnson and decide to rip off Tesco? Unlikely.

When those in power have no need to hide their lawbreaking and contempt for the law, it's not really hard to see how it trickles down.

Fine. You carry on justifying theft however it suits you. I just hope your haven’t brought up children with those morals.

That’s the thing you want to focus on? Why the importance of that particular comment?

A small family run off license operates very differently, anyone who has stolen or behaved badly is not allowed in anymore, any theft has the guy behind the till tackling the thief down. While you may get away with stealing from the local Tesco not so much from your Indian family run off license store in your street. Of course I’m talking from personal experience, you may have a different one.

Not true. Was given a values award for tackling a shoplifter! Young and stupid. Why the f was I risking needles, knives etc for little above minimum wage?

hate to be ‘that’ person, but go on twitter and say women don’t have a penis and suddenly plod will find the resources.

Can you kindly cite your sources for the assertion that criminals are taking calculators with them to stay under a $900 threshold? Thanks.

Our prisons are full so judges have to take that into consideration

I think that part of the problem is that it's no longer taboo for people to steal from shops and it's very easy for them to sell their obviously stolen goods on. If people would stop buying off shop lifters and ostracised them for stealing then it would reduce the incentive to do so. At the moment stealing = profit + no repressions

Quite. They're hardly Robin Hood and his Merrie Men.

I don’t have any sympathy for Tesco but do you honestly think that these people are sitting at home discussing the merits of the Tesco corporation before robbing it? No. They would do the exact same if it was a small independent off licence.

The magic number is California is $900. I am from the SF Bay Area and had family visiting me last week. They said anything totalling under $900 isn’t a crime. Some criminals take a calculator with them, adding up as they steal.

Of course this is America, so there’s every possibility the owner of the shop will come beat the shit out of you with a baseball bat. I don’t know if that’s a crime.