Robbery at Asda

Well, if there's a knock on your door, it's Chopper!!:D

 

I am surprised that they managed it at Asda, as the way they have the till line up, in the one nearest to me, is well away from the entrance/exit as a deterrent. The trouble is that a lot of the thieves are hardened to doing what they do. They're also usually well known and if the Shopping Center is organised all shops have radios interlinked between themselves and Security [if there is any] so that they can alert everyone should a known thief or trouble maker appears on the scene, and then they're followed on the security cameras.

You can't blame the people out of work, Miraflores! There's a lot of people out there desperate for a job and unable to get one, but that doesn't mean to say they're all desperate enough to start thieving!!!

The persons who committed that crime are probably locals who couldn't hold a job down if they had one, and who would hire them in the first place - not many employers. Thieves like that, when caught, should be prosecuted and, if found guilty, given a meaningful punishment. I saw cases, when advising the courts, where the plaintiff was so well known he was on first term names with the Court Ushers, the Police, the Lawyers, and the Magistrate could only hand out a fine [never to be paid] and that was that. The system has broken down because of lack of space in the Prisons, the pressure from Government not to give a custodial sentence, and the lack of any alternative punishment.