Baffled how not paying someone to collect the food left outside, which isn’t suprising that’s a homeless person would eat it, warrants police time. Police won’t attend burglary or bike thefts, but £29.5 of product left unguarded outside wat rents court time, when it could of been avoided if we actually looked after our veterans
>He was ordered to pay £29.60 compensation to Poundland, and was fined £40. He must also pay a £114 court surcharge and £85 costs.
How tf is he going to pay this if he’s sleeping rough? Why tf did CPS even think this was in the public interest to prosecute over him taking £30 of food that WAS LEFT OUT ON THE STREET.
The fact he’s a veteran is almost irrelevant, this is complete nonsense any way you look at it. The police won’t attend if your house is robbed, other than to give you a crime reference number for the insurance claim, but a company calls in £30 worth of food and the police are all over it.
These stories do my nut. The response will almost certainly be “support are vetarans”, but surely it’s a story of multiple and compound failures in so many services.
We give a shit, and it gets column inches, when it’s a “deserving poor” story, and say “we should look after veterans”, but this isn’t a veteran story at all.
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Baffled how not paying someone to collect the food left outside, which isn’t suprising that’s a homeless person would eat it, warrants police time. Police won’t attend burglary or bike thefts, but £29.5 of product left unguarded outside wat rents court time, when it could of been avoided if we actually looked after our veterans
>He was ordered to pay £29.60 compensation to Poundland, and was fined £40. He must also pay a £114 court surcharge and £85 costs.
How tf is he going to pay this if he’s sleeping rough? Why tf did CPS even think this was in the public interest to prosecute over him taking £30 of food that WAS LEFT OUT ON THE STREET.
The fact he’s a veteran is almost irrelevant, this is complete nonsense any way you look at it. The police won’t attend if your house is robbed, other than to give you a crime reference number for the insurance claim, but a company calls in £30 worth of food and the police are all over it.
These stories do my nut. The response will almost certainly be “support are vetarans”, but surely it’s a story of multiple and compound failures in so many services.
We give a shit, and it gets column inches, when it’s a “deserving poor” story, and say “we should look after veterans”, but this isn’t a veteran story at all.