Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
Ever watch those bait car programs, where the cops leave a car unlocked with the keys inside? I'm generally fascinated, repulsed, angry, in varying combinations, by the attitudes of those stealing the cars. They KNOW they're doing wrong (many will make a conscious effort to prevent leaving fingerprints), yet they think they are somehow justified in stealing someone else's property - until they get caught! THEN they're remorseful. If someone is old enough to actually drive a car and still hasn't learned that it's NOT okay to steal, I have to wonder if perhaps prison might be the best thing to teach them.
I have seen these programs and I am with thir by saying they are disgraceful shows of police urging people to steal, and just so they can justify the real crimes they have no idea how to solve. It is at best showing lazy police at their worst.

In the UK, have you ever wondered why sweets are on the low shelves in garages and shops? Well it is so that minors of three and four can pick them up with ease without their mothers/fathers noticing, and getting stuck into them. The crunch is the assistant saying you will have to pay for that sir/madam. That is under handed people teaching your children to steal, exactly the same as Thorn’s police bait programs.

Here is a good bait, drop a gold bar on the pavement and see the rush to pick it up from all those otherwise law abiding citizens. Then get the police to jump on them as the stick it in their pocket, and charge them with stealing by finding, yes that is a law in the UK and carries almost the same sentence as outright theft. I quote you again Thorn because it must apply by your law for people I have just mentioned in this paragraph.

Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
If someone is old enough to actually drive a car and still hasn't learned that it's NOT okay to steal, I have to wonder if perhaps prison might be the best thing to teach them.
Cars, sweets or gold bars what the difference? Answer nothing, because the temptation to steal different items was deliberately placed there for a crime to be committed.

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