Anthony Worrall Thompson - what do we think?

[erinpie]

So anthony worrall thompson has been caught shoplifting and admitted he may have a problem. But have we ever done it or considered it? Is it a psychological problem or just a bit of naughty stealing because, well, the supermarkets can afford it and mostly, people can get away with it. I used to have a friend who felt it her right to steal what she called 'the cheeky garlic' during her weekly shop. basically she unpacked all her goods from the trolley onto the check-out belt but would 'accidentally' leave the loose garlic bulb in her shopping trolley. then she'd load the trolley up with her bags of paid goods, and voila! her weekly free garlic.

He is a tief, however he jazzes it up

I was a bit taken aback - actually, I was gobsmacked - to discover over Christmas that both my younger sisters (now eminently respectable professionals in their 30s) shoplifted in their teens. And not just make-up or small items, they would (independently, they weren't operating together, but with their different sets of friends) leave their old clothes in a shop dressing room, and walk out wearing a completely new outfit. I would never have believed it of either of them, and my parents would have died if they knew, being almost morbidly honest themselves. It never occurred to me even once, which makes me wonder why not...?

Theft is theft and it's everyone else who ends up paying for it.

Yeah, but very sad though, isn't it? I mean he must have known he was going to get caught. it's not like someone as famous as him can go into a supermarket thinking that no one will notice him. Now he's always going to be associated with stealing and when he goes into a supermarket he'll be a marked man.

He seems to think it's some kind of psychological problem. As he said somewhere... he'd just bought several hundred pounds worth of champagne, why nick the cheese? My guess is that it's the same kind of low-level 'no-one will miss it' dishonesty that makes others nick a staple-gun from the office stationery cupboard. A personality failing but probably best not to elevate it into a syndrome.

Well I'm the person who realised in supermarket car park that I hadn't put a bottle of gin through till and went back in and paid for it. Mortified at the thought that I could have been accused of theft over what was a genuine over-sight.

Not sure how I feel about it. Don't know how anyone could purposefully steal something tbh. Conscience would get the better of me.

Is he ill, arrogant or daft? No idea.

I did wonder if it was for publicity? Get him talked about again. He kept doing it until they caught him.

Or arrogance.

Why does that idiot get let off so easy, when someone of a lesser class gets 6 months for stealing a bottle of water during the riots?.

The more money you have the more punishment you should get, it was clear he wasn't on hard times, no sympathy for bullshitters.

Was there a riot in Henley that day?.... Must have missed that?

My Dsis used to shoplift stuff for herself but had so many things she started shoplifting things and giving them away. She started doing it to order for other people (as gifts). She is very fucked up and has tried to kill herself several times. She repeatedly asked the GP for counselling but never got any. She never got caught and doesn't do it any more (that I know of!!!)

I think he is a twat with a sense of entitlement - it is ok trying to play the mental health card (and apparently he has form for massive lying already) but fundamentally he is a thief pure and simple.

Perhaps if we visited his restaurants (does he still have any?) and walked out without paying he would sympathize?

I took a lipstick from Boots once aged 19. No idea why and never done it since as it made me feel a bit sick. Presumably it made AWT feel good so he kept doing it.

Pedalleur, that's funny