Stealing...

Apologies but the week of this lecture has escaped the squidgy little thing that resides in my head, I call him brain. Anyway, in this lecture we were asked to watch various clips of films and TV shows and then comment on there content. The first clip was from the genius that is Family Guy. In the episode “Breaking out is hard to do” you witness Lois becoming a comical kleptomaniac which results in serious repercussions for herself and her family. We were asked if we thought shoplifting was different to any other kind of theft and also why people shoplift if they can afford not to?
From watching this clip I got the impression that shoplifting has the same factors of any other crime. All tend to be committed either through desperation, a need to steal to survive, or in Lois’s case to fuel an addiction or habit. Unfortunately the addiction for Lois was shoplifting. At times shoplifting may not be considered a terrible crime as the theft is not personal. The victim is not a sweet old lady doddering back from the post office with her pension, but a company or business that probably won’t even miss the items. It seems to me that people who do not need to steal generally do it for the rush of excitement and to feel alive. They could, of course, just be pathologically tight!

Perhaps the coolest theif of them all? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs