By Eric king-
The public encourages thieves by buying stolen goods from them. A large number of people from most societies happily buy stolen goods from thieves without giving it a second thought.
This is bad practice by individuals who would never like to be stolen from. Thieves go out to steal only because they know they can easily sell the goods they steal. They sell stolen goods not only to working-class individuals but also to supposedly respected and
hardworking members of society.
Every day, a lot of clothes mobile phones, perfumes, food, and other amenities are stolen and sold on the streets for cheaper cash. Customers rarely ever put themselves in the shoes of the victims. A good phone will always be flogged for a much cheaper price, but the buyer never sympathizes with the rightful owner. Their
priority is always how much they will save on the street purchase in comparison with the correct market price.
SYMPATHETIC
Members of the public are less
sympathetic to businesses than they are to private owners. A survey conducted by the eye of media.com revealed that roughly 80 percent of people will buy or have bought stolen goods from thieves on the street.
Out of 40 people spoken to in a 24
hours period, 31 of them admitted they had bought goods they believed to have been stolen from thieves. That’s nearly 80 percent of the number of people we spoke to. All admitted they did not give a second thought to the fact the goods may have been stolen.
The other 9 claimed they had bought
stolen goods from thieves in the past, but would never do it again. All 9 were over the age of 30, With 6 of them being over 50 years of age.
CONSCIOUS THOUGHT
60 percent of them (25/40) admitted
that on conscious thought they would sympathize with individual victims of stolen goods than they would with businesses who were victims. All 25 made reference to the fact the businesses have insurance.
10 percent of them (9 out of 40) said
they sympathize with businesses because they suffer an unfair loss. 15 percent ( 6 out of 40) were indifferent, saying it made no difference to them who the victims are 23 years old John Taylor from Enfield
told the eye of media.com:
” it makes no difference who the victims are. All that matters is that they have been robbed of the goods and if I don’t buy it, someone else would. My main consideration would be whether I like and want the stolen good, and whether I have the money and can afford the cheaper price”.
” The owner will be without his stuff whether I buy it or not “. 29-year-old Sarah Winston from Mile end said: i think we have to treat people how we want to be treated . If you don’t want to be stolen from, you shouldn’t steal from others, or buy stolen goods.It is selfish to that. Besides , the possibility of being caught wind stolen goods should be a worry to the right-thinking person” .
” I admit I have bought stolen cheap perfumes in the past when I was younger and hard up for money. The real problem is that by buying goods from thieves, we are condoning their actions.A thief who steals from a shop or a person, can steal from anyone ”
SUPPORT
Most thieves who steal , do it to
support heir drugs and alcohol habits. Other thieves who are mainly youngsters, do it because it is a fast way to get what they want. Victims if mobile theft suffer the heartache of loosing all their numbers which cannot be retrieved unless they have other means of contacting their contacts, which isn’t always possible.
Important business deals, contacts of
friends, and sometimes, newly developing romance lost when mobile phones are stolen, can be disorientating.
The pain is much more when more expensive goods are stolen. It can be really painful.
The survey was conducted between
yesterday ( Thursday) and today (Friday) following the theft of an expensive iPhone and £3,000 in cash from a man in Birmingham who took a woman home he met at the Bull ring in Digbeth, central Birmingham.
He woke up in the morning to find that he had been robbed of a baseball cap gift given to him, an iPhone, and over £3,000 in cash he recently cashed out for clothes shopping and to buy a car. The thief has still not been caught.
RESEARCH
It promoted our editorial to instruct the research to assess how honest and conscious Brits are about stolen goods.
The research was randomly conducted in London and some.parts of Essex. It is not fully comprehensive but set to continue for another two days in some rich areas to see the effect work earnings have on the tendency of the British public to buy stolen goods.