To think it's obvious this woman stole because her life was TOO comfortable

[LaurieFairyCake]

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She doesn't appear to work, she has a nanny, and she lives in a Georgian detached house with a wealthy husband.

I think you need a few difficulties in life to keep you wanting to strive forward. She had no obvious difficulties so she created some.

She sounded bored (and possibly angry) with life in that article - and that seemed to manifest itself in taking risks.

I hope she's found something else to do - she needed a project of some kind.

She has "affluenza". I've seen this, its not good.

a 6ft christmas tree! she was good at it!

She was good i'll give her that.

But why do posh people always ave to put their own spin on things ?? She was on the rob, she did it because she could not because of some unfulfilled bloody desire.

snort @ 'on the rob'.

she must have wanted to get caught subconsciously at least if she just blatantly walked out the exit with unpaid for merchandise draped over her arm.

Up till then she'd paid for something and that had taken any suspician off her.

she said she couldn't pay for the christmas/birhday gifts so she must have had some financial constraints. I think it was more the buzz, thrill of getting away with it and something for nothing.

Lets face it, if that had been some chav off a grubby council estate she'd be condemmed, not have mumsnets finest picking over the bones.

I remember yeaarrrrrsssssss ago when I was pregnant with ds, it was just before christmas and a young girl with her son had been caught stealing. It was only a cheap puppet thing, think it was sooty and sweep ? anyways, she was marched through the store with her son, I can remember she kept saying she needed it, she didn't have anything.

At the time I wanted to buy the bloody thing for her, it was very sad. Although we didn't have much ourselves, dd did have presents for christmas, but it's still wrong to steal. Whether you're a 'posh bird' on the rob or not.

ooh mumsnet's finest

Tis true though. She went shopping to leave the nanny to bake with the kids while daddy was at work, if she'd left little Chardonnay et al at home on the 62nd floor she'd het far fewer attempts at understanding.

But because she had a lot and wanted more it is somehow more glamorous.

I have had a couple of wealthy clients who went shoplifting. They were very sad people with many issues with their lives. They didn't write about it in the DM mind you!

She didn't need the cheap puppet thing...she and the posh lady are thieves.

I didn't say she did....stealing is wrong whatever the reason, whether that be a thrill seeking posho on the rob ( couldn't she have downed a couple of E's or hung around with common people or summat) or a skint mum with no christmas presents, the difference being the posho on the rob will have people justifying her actions and got off rather lightly imo.