Shoplifting

i stumbled across this picture on the internet the other day, and paused to look at it as the woman looks slightly like michael jackson. anyway, besides looking like michael jackson, she is also a shoplifter as you can see. i find it interesting how a woman who can afford a leather jacket can not afford to buy a dvd, but you never know, it might not be leather. the last time i shoplifted was when i was about 13, when i stole a freddo from sainsburys, but i didnt have a leather jacket on, and i couldnt even afford the freddo!

i have always been against shoplifting (as you would probably imagine), and have occasionally when i was younger found that a couple of my friends regularly shoplifted and not seemed to care at all about what they were doing, however when i stole that freddo i was really scared. i would tell them on a regular basis that it is wrong, not that it made a scrap of difference.

shoplifting is not just talking goods from a shop, but its stealing money from someone elses pocket in a sence, and it cannot be justified and not classed as bad behaviour. the reasons for stealing must also be taken into consideration, for example in Jay Langleys blog on shoplifting he expained that a person stole clothes to sell, so as they could have money to buy drugs. this is a common issue, and a major cause for concern.

obviously there are many crimes that are much worse than shoplifting, however if it is done on a regular basis then it makes what may seem to some a small crime a much bigger one. if people rely on shoplifting to gain money they need then there is a serious problem, and one that certainly constitutes as bad.