How will you personally deal with a thief
By lovely
@augusta123 (6649)
August 27, 2018 11:48pm CST
I witness a scenario at my local market yesterday. A young lady stole a stock fish from a stall yesterday after buying one. She was caught, beaten and almost stripped if not for the pleading of some people.Some even wanted jungle justice to get her burnt. Well I felt that was a wrong approach but people were arguing that giving thieves away to the police is just a mild way of letting criminal off the hook easily because they sometimes get very mild punishment from authorities.
Well what do you think? What do you do when you catch a thief?
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9 responses
@toniganzon (72549)
• Philippines
28 Aug 18
That was brutal. Thieves get the slightest penalty here but robbery is a totally different thing.
@moichan (666)
• Philippines
28 Aug 18
I'll report it to the authorities. Maybe she has too many stomachs to fill. She won't steal food just because she wanted to.
@cttolledo (5451)
• Legaspi, Philippines
28 Aug 18
Have no experience yet of catching a thief. Well, there's a truth on that, sometimes, the victims chose settlement than pursuing a case against the thief and with that, they're not helping to eliminate crimes.
@Sukeena1961 (343)
• United States
28 Aug 18
I don't condone stealing. I have had things stolen from me, but no matter what is stolen it does not warrant what happened to that young lady. Maybe she felt that she didn't have any other choice. I would first find out the reason she was stealing. If she was stealing because her and her family was hungry, I would try to get her some help for the family. If she had been stealing to feed her family I would have offered to pay for the fish. There is no justifiable reason for people to treat someone that way. Whatever happened to forgiveness, mercy and compassion? If the person is not stealing because they are hungry I would call the police and turn them over to them.
