Why Don't They Take Burglary This Seriously?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28896675
Don't get me wrong, theiving lowlives in jail = result but you have to do about 300 burglaries before they send you to one of HMHCs!

[Canary42]

But this guy's theft level was essentially 700,000 copies.

[jno]

with today's seat prices/DVD prices that's £5 million plus. More than your average burglary. In fact it's more than you'd get if you stole my whole house.

[ummmm]

The bloke who burgled my house got 4 years.

[ToraToraTora]

first offence ummmmm? i doubt it.

[ummmm]

No...about 26 houses in a short space of time.

[jno]

I suppose you were lucky they even bothered looking. They showed pretty minimal interest when were burgled.

I was trawling old newspapers yesterday and interested to find one guy in the early 1800s convicted of burglariously entering a house and ftealing filver was hanged. That seemed to be normal.

[agchristie]

One of a multitude of inconsistencies in the legal world. Driving offence comparisons is another, discussed just yesterday (see chubby brown link)

[ummmm]

It might be because he was a night time burglar breaking into houses while people slept. That could have disastrous consequences. Although he wasn't violent, how would you know that if you woke up to him in your house.