Joyti de Laurey-if you had nicked all that money what would you have bought?

[banshee]

daft question i know! Can't believe she nearly got away with it!

of course it's less bad than mugging an old lady. Out of interest how much do you think someone could syphon off your bank account before you really started to notice? I'm soooo bad at even opening bank statements let alone reading them I reckon it would take me a while. and me and dh have joint accounts so I could just attribute it to him. Someone could probably get a few hundred out of me, if they did it slowly

I think that mugging an old lady is worse because it involves physical intimidation of someone who is vulnerable - none of which applies to the GS man. he won't have sat awake at night shivering in terror following the crime.
But Jyoti didn't have the mitigating factors that SOME muggers might be able to claim, and she pre-meditated theft as a stream of consciousness - AND she cold-boodedly tried to blackmail him once she was discovered, which is v ' immoral'.

No- I agree with you, bk. Didn't see the programme but robbing from the rich without hurting or frightening them seems better to me than robbing and terrifying poor old women. Not that I would particularly condone the former, you understand...

BK - that is a hard one!

That question goes right to the core of your moral and ethical being.

To me on a technical basis theft is theft. However, I get involved in a lot of corporate fraud cases at work and TBH sometimes those perpetrating the frauds seem more like the victims that the companies do! But don't ever quote me on that in RL

I think what she did was definately wrong- and she knew that it was. The bahaviour was classic though - she got away with small amounts then gradually increased it and increased it. Reminds me of the boundaries thing with children. If you let them away with something once then the next time they try to push their luck even further!

I was surprised though that GS pursued it, they are quite a secretive organisation and I would have thought that they would have wanted to keep things quiet.

But maybe thats coloured by my experience where the vast majority of frauds never see the light of day!

but banshee, that's what makes it a sensational crime - the amount of money. but what i am trying - obviously unsuccessfully - to say is that it is not the amount of money involved which determines the seriousness of the crime but the impact to the victim. impact to gs and their employees, small - impact to old lady, potentially fatal.

but banshee, that's what makes it a sensational crime - the amount of money. but what i am trying - obviously unsuccessfully - to say is that it is not the amount of money involved which determines the seriousness of the crime but the impact to the victim. impact to gs and their employees, small - impact to old lady, potentially fatal.

Jyoti is an unusual name, n'est ce pas?

Anyway, i could sit up all night giving you a list of the things i would spend such an amount on...but must go to bed.

night night!

night bluster

Oh - it's Indian - I quite like it, particularly when pronounced more like 'djotti'

night, scumster

Just realised that says "bluster" as in stutter angrily or wind blowing in fierce bursts when I meant to add an affectionate "ster" to blu's name. Apologies.

It made me laugh

Yes. A nice name indeed. Night

did i spell it wrong?

oh i'm off to bed too. Gotta get up early to go round to the Astin Martin dealership on the way to Bond Street............