Using Children To 'shop'...

[Patsy33]

My son who works at a well known supermarket, told me 7 people were caught shoplifting at the weekend. Apparantly, they were gypsies? --/travellers? What they were doing, is sending their kids in to steal certain items, run out and hide them under their parent's car. When security guard ran after them, the parents claimed to know nothing about it, then proceeded to tell their kids off with a pretend smack around the ear! Have they no shame??

[fiction-factory]

Doesn't surprise me, although it would have made more sense to hide the goods under someone else's car. So did the supermarket's security guards take the goods back?

[ummmm]

Clearly not.

[Patsy33]

Probably. He didn't go into detail. There was no police involved. Everyone knows what is going on but can't do anything....

[fiction-factory]

I remember seeing a programme where the traveller parents sent out their young children aged around 6 to throw stones at police cars/local authority vehicles/bailiff's cars to smash the windows knowing that no action would be taken

[silliemillie]

Sadly it's been going on for years and not just in the traveling community.
When I was at school (a long time ago) there was a boy who was made to do that sort of thing by his parents.

He told us he didn't want to but if he didn't he would be beaten or not fed.


Always remember him, what a way to bring up children.

[ummmm]

They've lowered the age of criminal responsibility so pikeys have lowered the age of their criminal kids.

[anneasquith]

Pikeys? Is that not a bit offensive ?

[jomifl]

how is it offensive?

[ummmm]

No. Some travellers are decent, some are pikeys who send their kids out to steal.

[naomi24]

Jom, //how is it offensive? //

'Cos everything's offensive.

[marval]

I used to work in a charity shop, they would do the same in there. They have no sense of decency or shame.

[viv41]

aa - more 'offensive' than you calling the Queen a lizard ???

[naomi24]

viv, that's allowed. ;o)

[viv41]

Chuckle.

[Old_Geezer]

So if the kids are not responsible then surely the adults who are in charge of them must be, and should be charged with allowing their kids to steal ? I can't believe the law is such an ass that it is instead saying no one is responsible.

[bodeker]

*** , yes I remember watching a programme a little while ago and to call travellers pikeys was a big insult

[bodeker]

Don't know why that first word did not come up?

[Jackdaw33]

***. Yes, the filter is rather inconsistent. You cannot say a.r.s.e. but you can say arsed.

[bodeker]

Hmm I said ***

[mushroom25]

//There was no police involved. Everyone knows what is going on but can't do anything.... //

the police are rarely involved in the west midlands - the attitude of the local police has been, for some years, that shoplifting is a civil matter.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/police-fail-follow-up-nearly-two-thirds-4282770