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| Thread ID: 119213 | 2011-07-11 04:50:00 | Police investigate TVNZ looter story | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1216080 | 2011-07-13 19:40:00 | Perhaps because picking up a broken bulb is hard to be considered as theft. he was arrested for allegedly stealing light-fittings. he pleaded not guilty to two charges of burglary of a damaged property and possession of tools for burglary. hardly picking up a broken light bulb. he was equipped. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1216081 | 2011-07-13 19:46:00 | I would suspect there are quite a few broken glass houses around here. Is pirating not thieving? I agree he should be charged, and let court decide. The police have no option to provide diversion if he does not accept wrong doing. I would guess his lawyer has asked intimated guilty plea options but can only assume that too would not result in diversion being offered. His mental capability does not exclude him from the law, it just provides the court with sentencing options. Visited one of those secure facilities where some of the worst offenders end up. Scary place, don't do the crime and take your meds people. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 1216082 | 2011-07-13 20:57:00 | If you take the case of the old tips, everybody and his dog helped themselves to what they thought was useful, on being dropped on the ground it became the property of the council. What fun you would have taking them all to the slammer. As you see, common sense prevailed. Tricky indeed. Me thinks you're trying to twist the circumstances to fit your position, which just shows your position for what it is. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1216083 | 2011-07-13 21:58:00 | You could be right, seems we are trying to define theft. In your eyes, black and whie, in mine reason enters. You are walking past a gate, you see a paint brush that owner has thrown away, I pick it up and out leaps a cop and off we go the slammer, like so many rediculous cases brought to the court, the judge says begone and don't waste the courts time, and that is the result of a lack of reason in the first place. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1216084 | 2011-08-22 00:14:00 | Common sense prevails at last: www.stuff.co.nz |
smithie 38 (6684) | ||
| 1216085 | 2011-08-22 00:24:00 | Common sense prevails at last: www.stuff.co.nz Not sure what took the Police so long to do this but I would say that with the time he did in jail and the roughing up he got at the time, justice has been served. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1216086 | 2011-08-22 01:58:00 | He took something, that is enough for a good whipping according to some. Theft is theft, never mind common sense. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1216087 | 2011-08-22 02:15:00 | Perhaps the fuss that is being made over this case is related to the fact that the theft (and no-one should deny this was a theft) was carried out in an area that was declared a disaster area. Looting is more morally reprehensible than theft, which is bad enough itself. The mitigating circumstances (if any) are normally dealt with by the courts. |
johcar (6283) | ||
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