So now we’re moving goalposts to all criminals and all victims? No thank you, I won’t be going on that narrative journey with you.
Hard to REthink something not thought through once, anyhow.
Probably needed to fence the package to afford the co-pay.
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I don’t know who that lady is or what her situation is, beyond her surely being structurally unsound on at least a temporary basis. But the driver is plainly Russell Wilson, who is one of the highest paid athletes in America, and he definitely can’t cry that poverty required that he steal those packages.
(Not that it is all wine and roses for him–only a matter of time before Ciara catches him running around with this other woman.)
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Yeah I used to work for our road authority and we had a similar problem with kids who would hit the fire alarm button on the way out after failing their license test. An old traffic camera housing with a spare length of mains cable fixed that problem.
More likely fencing the package to afford their drug habit.
Damn you beat me to it.
Well, packages left open to steal seems to fit the description. 
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It’s called YouTube
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Did you? I think the quote and broken windows are about different things.
Broken Windows is basically “poor people life in filth and living in filth leads to deteriorating moral values and thus to crime.”
That’s different from giving criminals a free pass, as in not even making any effort to follow up on bike thefts. Or tax evasion, for that matter.
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Schadenfreude, that’s all.
But you have to remember that this person would effectively costing the healthcare system with their misadventure.
Personally I’m happier living in a country with a healthcare system though, even if timewasters like this are part of it.
I hope you are not being serius
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What the hell kind of nonsense are you talking about? Package thieves are criminals, regardless of their circumstances. And it’s very obvious who in this case is the criminal and who is the victim.
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[grumpycat]
I don’t think anyone here doubts that.
What’s at issue for some here (and apparently not for you) is whether the circumstances of criminals should be taken into account.
Might be easier to pick these people up based on their ride. Not a whole lot of early '00 Acuras in great shape still driving around out there.
@KeithLM: Yeah, again, changed location for delivery = $0 additional dollars. We’ve had at least 2 doorbells smashed, I’m not spending any more than about $5 on replacements.
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Especially an Eagles jersey. As if Philly fans didn’t have a bad enough reputation already, eh?
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The circumstances of the criminal are entirely hypothetical at this point, same for the victim. But considering there’s a criminal and a victim in this, I’ll side with the victim without a second thought. The criminal in this situation is giving absolutely no consideration to the hardship they may be creating for their victim. And I won’t jump to victim blaming by saying that if the packages were important they should be sent elsewhere.
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Sure, but taking pleasure in her pain, and/or simply condemning her as someone who got what she deserved, without knowing her circumstances is what some here are objecting to. That’s a separate issue from siding with either her or the victim of her crime.
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