Crime pays

[joeluke]

Boss pays £5k compensation to employee who stole £845 from him

Stress, humiliation and trauma? Pathetic, his boss carried out a citizens arrest - so what if he hung a placard around his neck?

What's more important here - the victim of crime or the poor criminals hurts feelings?

http://news.sky.com/s...m_To_Pay_Compensation

[DTCwordfan]

You can't have a nation based on kangaroo court actions.

On that basis the landlord of Jo Yeats would have been strung up off the Clifton suspension bridge...........

And we would have the Brit version of the KKK roaming the streets to look for any Muslim offenders to toast.....

The original offence was dealt with in the proper way. The boss deserves what has arrived - should have the 'nous' to think about any recriminations before doing it.

[joeluke]

But at the end of the day he's stolen money from his employer and ended up 5k better off for his 'hurt feelings'

[Coobeastie]

No he presented a forged cheque which bounced so theoretically cash converters were the ones he stole from. His boss rounded up a posse chucked him in the back of a van, paraded him through the streets and was more concerned with phoning the local press than getting the police around to arrest him.

[Lonnie]

Just disgusting, crime in this country pays.

[Backdrifter]

No Lonnie, it doesn't. You can't take the small number of cases like this that get trumpeted in the media and use it to make an assertion like yours.

It's obviously wrong to steal but if you take matters into your own hands like this manager did you're laying yourself open to some kind of counter-action.

[ummmm]

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question989133.html

[joeluke]

Oops sorry didn't notice that thread when I posted mine

[ummmm]

Well it wasn't obvious by the title...just thought you might be interested in the answers :-)

[The-Toff-]

the boss should have just called the police, it was a stupid thing to do hanging a placard round his neck,

[weas]

bums!!! thief!! we all need to know !! poor chap he is the loser, the thief is sadly the winner!!

[Kerosene]

Feelings do not come into this, nor is either of these individuals a winner or a loser. Both did wrong in the eyes of the law, one has received a formal Police caution and the other has been financially penalised.

The law has no "feelings" and is there to be applied accordingly. Had the employer detained the employee until the Police arrived, they would then have arrested him and would have dealt with him under the laws of the land.

The fact that he decided to take the law into his own hands was his downfall. He only has himself to blame, no one else, for how ever much money he's having to pay in compensation. End of.

[Lonnie]

Sorry Backdrifter, I think, in this coutry today, mainly because of Human Rights and Political Correctness, it does, and I have every sympathy with this chap, it was his business.

All that happened, was that the thief had his feelings hurt, his crime made public, and he was made to look small.

Good, he shouldn't have stolen that money.