Elderly Australian Caught Stealing Vitamin C in Chonburi

[Liverpool Lou]

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

Nobody gives a <deleted> about an old guy stealing some vitamins,  wtf

The business does give a fck about him doing it constantly, it was not a one-off!

[Rimmer]

A completely off topic troll / personal attack has been removed also a reply

@BangkokHank

[Liverpool Lou]

10 hours ago, Edwin Cameron said:

He would have to have left the shop for him to be actually charged,

Cobblers.  He's a repeat offender at that shop.

[jaywalker2]

I wonder what happens to these people. Suppose you're 82, in ill heatlh, you've been in Thailand for years or maybe decades, you have no family to speak of back home, certainly nobody that will take you in. Then you do a dumb thing like shoplifting and you get deported. Suddenly, you're at the airport in a country you don't know anymore. Where do you go from there?

[Bluetongue]

37 minutes ago, jaywalker2 said:

I wonder what happens to these people. Suppose you're 82, in ill heatlh, you've been in Thailand for years or maybe decades, you have no family to speak of back home, certainly nobody that will take you in. Then you do a dumb thing like shoplifting and you get deported. Suddenly, you're at the airport in a country you don't know anymore. Where do you go from there?

In Brisbane he could go to Centrelink and they would put him in a hostel place where he’d get his own room plus 3 ordinary meals a day in return for nearly all his pension. He could catch a bus to the shops for 10baht and steal as much Vitamin C as he liked, no one would do anything 

[Cabradelmar]

Sad really. Not that unusual either. Many senior people on fixed incomes turn to petty theft to make ends meet. Not saying that's the case here. Just that this type of thing happens more than many realize.

[schultzlivgthai]

Hopefully they cut the old guy a break, let him pay for his vitamin C. Have to have a little sympathy for the guy

[Korat Kiwi]

1 hour ago, schultzlivgthai said:

Hopefully they cut the old guy a break, let him pay for his vitamin C. Have to have a little sympathy for the guy

Yes and no... 

 

  He must know what he has done is wrong.  This is the 3rd time in the same shop.  Age is no excuse unless it can be proven there is a screw loose. 

 

  If the find he is of reduced mental capacity then what?  Who looks after him? 

 

  Agreed that it's a minor offence when compared to all the other sh*t that occurs in the area, but the store owner is the victim here. 

 

  So what should the penalty be?  Restitution to the shop, and served a trespass notice? 

 

  It's a difficult one but justice and a deterrent need to be seen. 

[JimTripper]

On 9/23/2024 at 6:56 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Poor old bugger. 

 

Time to go back to Oz. 

 

Where things are more expensive...