Yeah, I couldn’t figure it out, either. It’s a funny world.
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I wonder if the police will be able to solve this one with the evidence available? I also wonder if she’s actually going to have that leg looked at or try to walk it off for fear of for fear of revealing herself?
Although she’ll be easily recognizable to some anonymous tipster, I’m sure.
You say that with such authority, yet every year we hear of cases similar to this where the perpetrator suddenly becomes the victim during their illegal activities.
In my neighborhood, a package thief just got caught…She was a model/bartender/pirate, apparently. People went internet sleuthing and found all her social media stuff. She’d been eating good food and jetsetting, but also had a gofundme for a new car.
I don’t know her circumstances, but she seems like a dirty, rotten, POS.
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And the winner of this years Fallon d’Flor is…
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My neighbor has gone the extra mile and records in a spreadsheet the license plate number of every car that drives past. On NextDoor some people complained about it initially, but after a string of thefts, the tide turned and people seem to be happy.
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Including audio seems like a slightly gutsy move. Video recording outside of explicitly voyeuristic situations(and, in the case of a few embarrassing legislative oversights, sometimes even then) tends to be legal more or less across the board; but even vaguely clandestine audio recording is on much patchier footing.
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Please. They have a car and can afford gas and flashy clothing. Plenty of working class people unable to afford private transportation manage to get through life without filching the sundries people buy off Amazon. These light-finger Louies are nothing more than penny-ante crooks. They’re not desperate. They’re just the sort of amoral selfish assholes who do whatever they can get away with. If they’d been born with silver spoons in their mouths they’d be running for president and bragging about how they could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.
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Thems the breaks.
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I think it’s a big leap to extrapolate support of a specific discredited modern criminal justice policy from quoting the freed Syrian-Roman slave Publilius Syrus. Broken window theory specifically advocates targeting superficial disorder in a effort to cultivate a law-abiding mentality among the populace, and unsurprisingly it does exactly the opposite by preying on the most vulnerable members of society.
Syrus’s maxim is much more general. If burglary isn’t punished, then those who obey laws and norms only because of fear of penalty will burglar. Since cops routinely lack the resources to investigate porch piracy - in part due to their own mismanagement including wasteful policies such as broken window policing - it’s a low risk crime. That reading fits the Syrus maxim “Pardon one offense and you encourage the commission of many,” much more aptly, though it is merely an aphorism so you could read it differently.
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Found Marcellus Wallace
Not his Michael Sarrazin to her Jane Fonda.
I didn’t flag it, but I get why other community members did so.
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As do I, but I suspect they are misreading both the intent of the original author and @OhhJim. Given the misunderstanding, the flagging makes sense.
I mean, my first comment was pretty unforgiving of porch pirates. The mods have made it clear that they want us to flag anything we think might merit it but are unsure, and let them sort it out. If someone found my comment offensive, I would hope they would feel fine flagging it, even and especially if they’re a friend. After all, I’m not an objective judge of my own actions. No one is. Because I’m as human as the next regular, when, not if, I’m inconsiderate, I value being called on it. And if it arises from a misunderstanding, I trust our mods to be able to sort it out and enforce the forum guidelines.
I don’t regard flagging as a necessarily hostile act.
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How do you have any reasonable expectation of privacy in a house’s driveway on the street?
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Do tell why?
Acrostic seemed to be saying that a person might be forgiven for petty thievery because he is poor. I merely pointed out that some notable literary figures have disagreed, and their opinions have stood the test of time (2,000 years).
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Sentiment only. I know it’s not realistic punishment for the crime. But you got my point. 
To quote Tim Minchin, “Just because an idea is tenacious, doesn’t mean that it’s worthy.”
Not tak8ng a position, just pointing out your logical fallacy…
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