brother in law is using a magnet on power meter

hoijane

angelsmomma wrote: »

It is still theft.

So bottom line your brother in law is a thief which makes him a criminal.

wish i could see it as so cut and dry.

does anyone know what is likley to happen if he is caught? what would happen to my sister as she knows but is turning a blind eye?

HappyMJ

hoijane wrote: »

funnily enough i know he is kinda steeling from tesco, he puts things like apples through as potatoes. but i know money is really tight and it is wrong in some ways, but poor people stealing from a large supermarket in order to feed their family is not cut and dry.

all i want to happen is for someone to find out about it, and just give him a warning and a hard slap on the wrist.

kinda stealing? It's theft plain and simple. Tell him to use a food bank if he's desperate.

He won't get just a slap on the wrist. He'll either be fined or imprisoned. The longer it goes on the bigger the penalty so for his own good you should report him to Tesco to review their CCTV.

hoijane

MothballsWallet wrote: »

If he's a closed book, then report him and he'll be sent to jail.

Sounds like he dam well deserves it.

trust me if it only affected him i would report right now, but there is my sister and niece to think about

hoijane

HappyMJ wrote: »

kinda stealing? It's theft plain and simple. Tell him to use a food bank if he's desperate.

He won't get just a slap on the wrist. He'll either be fined or imprisoned. The longer it goes on the bigger the penalty so for his own good you should report him to Tesco to review their CCTV.

i know, but i thought we had progressed as a nation since cutting off an arm for a starving person stealing food.

HappyMJ

hoijane wrote: »

wish i could see it as so cut and dry.

does anyone know what is likley to happen if he is caught? what would happen to my sister as she knows but is turning a blind eye?

Well this idiot put stuff through as onions which the store didn't even sell and he was convicted with 180 hours £250 compensation plus costs.

http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/10/01/city-worker-caught-using-onion-scam-to-shoplift/

HappyMJ

hoijane wrote: »

i know, but i thought we had progressed as a nation since cutting off an arm for a starving person stealing food.

Why is he stealing food? There are enough benefits around to avoid starving. Tell him to stop paying his debts (which is not criminal) before commiting a criminal offence.

parcival

One of the reasons we are all paying so much for everything these days is fraud, theft and non payers.

No excuses - this person is a criminal - no excuses.

hoijane

HappyMJ wrote: »

Well this idiot put stuff through as onions which the store didn't even sell and he was convicted with 180 hours £250 compensation plus costs.

he sounds like a bored rich boy doing it for fun, not to feed his family - i mean how can you even spend 450 in a sainsbury??

greatgimpo

Am I the only one who cannot understand how a magnet could possibly make something that rotates go slower or even backwards? Would somebody please explain? At the moment I think it's a wind-up (no pun intended) but I'm open to a scientific explanation.

hoijane

HappyMJ wrote: »

Why is he stealing food? There are enough benefits around to avoid starving. Tell him to stop paying his debts (which is not criminal) before commiting a criminal offence.

apparently not from what i hear of their finances, i doubt they are paying off any debts - just getting more into them