woman admits stealing from tesco bin

[magpienchips]

Hi Mum's
I just want to know your opinion on the news that a woman who admitted taking food out of a tesco bin Is being prosecuted for theft?
I felt sorry for the woman when that news came to my attention because I would like to believe that she assumed that since the food was in a bin then it was no longer sell able and so it would not be considered a crime for taking it?
but tesco policy obviously does not allow that.
I think also that the fact that she admitted taking the food should have made tesco let her go.
also I can remember watching a Pro-gramme called whistle blowers I think?
anyway this man Applied for a job at various tesco stores and he secretly filmed tesco staff selling meat that was past the sell by date and I think that was done with the approval of management.
so my point is how can it be right for tesco to deceive and rip off customers
but it is wrong for customers to take food out of a bin?
I can understand that food is sold for profit but the fact is that food was bagged up and put into a bin to be thrown into a landfill site.
but if that woman had approached tesco management and ask them if she could take some of the food out of the bin?
I doubt very much if they would have said yes she can.
so this woman made the decision to take without asking permission which was foolish of course but yet it is understandable why she did it.
and for this woman to now be facing getting a criminal record and possibly a fine while tesco are still allowed to carry on trading after they were filmed Deceiving their customers.
I don't think that Is just or fair.
what do you Think?

I suppose you are right Madam...but I would feel scared to take it to the police station after Ive had it for a few weeks.
I might just put it outside instead.

madam you are right...Thank you...I would feel uneasy riding it knowing the owner could be my next door neighbor

I should have known really cause its a muddy fox...not some cheap thing and its in good condition apart from the buckled wheel...it was too tempting to pass it by...I feel so worried now.

Back to the original post - Tesco are just making themselves look stupid, petty and greedy. Not to mention non eco-friendly. We're constantly hearing about Tesco's profits being up (they must make about 20% of the total GDP by now), so how is it skin off their nose if people want to take out of date ham out of their bins? It's hardly going to affect their profit, is it?

If I've thrown stuff in a skip, say (as bins are not accessible), I'm not going to complain if someone helps themselves to an old TV/length of wood/etc. I didn't want it. That's why I threw it out.

It wouldn't have occurred to me that it was theft, either.

Anything dumped in a bin is fair game imo

on someone else's property US?

If its in the bin they don't want it do they?

Theres a skip outside my house atm ..Anyone can help themselves to whats in it makes no difference to me

its Mums

not mum's

mind you i dont know if the jeremy kyle researchers know how to use an apostrophe

GASP
i meant matthew wright
my bad!

I have to say you are technically correct Madam...however I still think that in the case of this woman tesco should overlook it...It couldn't have been worth that much money...but nevertheless it was taken from tesco property and without the owners permission.
still i hope the woman has learned a lesson from what she did.

It would still be theft though usualsuspect. Anything in the skip belongs to the owner of the skip. If someone is ill becuase of eating food obtained from the bin then Tescos would still be liable.
I agree the waste problem needs to be addressed but it is a separate issue.

doesn't matter if they dont want it. if it's on tehri property (and the bin is their property) tehn you have no right to take it. plus, how do you know something wasnt put there by accident and someone will go looking for it again only to find it stolen?

would you eb happy with someone coming onto your property to raid your bin? what if you trhew a pair of jeans away forgetting taht a valuable piece of jewellery was in teh pocket and someone crept in at night and stole the jeans out of your bin then you saw them 2 days later wearing your jewellery. would you jsut say, "finders keepers"?

What about when you fill up a skip with stuff and passers-by help themselves? That isn't theft - or is it? Would you call the police if you saw someone taking something out of the skip on your drive? People do it all the time and even televised home design programmes suggest looking in skips for old furniture to renovate.
Same difference here. They were about to throw the food away so what does it matter to them if she took it? They could donate all that food to homeless hostels but they choose to fill up our landfills instead and pollute the environment, then waste taxpayers money on taking a woman to court for recycling the food. Pathetic.
I never shop with Tesco now.

pintoguiness as far as i know it is theft to take anything froma skip without teh owner's permission.

the tv programmes usually always advise you to check with teh skip owner first though.

MNetters are so honest

All this outrage over some food that was in a bin