How to end bag snatchings
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How to end bag snatchings
With all of the recent talk of bag snatching victims in PP, I perked up when I was just talking to an old sailor that was stationed in Olongapo City in the Philippines in the early 80s, and he said that the bag/necklace/etc snatchings were getting so bad that the government decided to put a stop to it. They put out a decree that the next 10 people caught committing a snatching would be immediately executed. They were hauled off down in front of the police station and then shot.
They only made it to 8 before that crime stopped.
They only made it to 8 before that crime stopped.
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The other approach might be for people to stop carrying bags with all their valuables in them..
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Capital Punishment, at least officially, was banned around the same time the SOC was in power.Miguelito wrote:With all of the recent talk of bag snatching victims in PP, I perked up when I was just talking to an old sailor that was stationed in Olongapo City in the Philippines in the early 80s, and he said that the bag/necklace/etc snatchings were getting so bad that the government decided to put a stop to it. They put out a decree that the next 10 people caught committing a snatching would be immediately executed. They were hauled off down in front of the police station and then shot.
They only made it to 8 before that crime stopped.
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Aren't thieves that are caught here already beaten to death with some regularity? The threat of a painful public death doesn't seem to have done anything to slow bag snatching.
As for making death an official punishment for theft, in so far as the threat of punishment has any effect on the reasoning of somebody planning a criminal act, when the punishment for theft is the same as the punishment for murder, there is no reason for the thief to limit his crime to mere theft, but might as well employ murder as well.
As for making death an official punishment for theft, in so far as the threat of punishment has any effect on the reasoning of somebody planning a criminal act, when the punishment for theft is the same as the punishment for murder, there is no reason for the thief to limit his crime to mere theft, but might as well employ murder as well.
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I wasn't actually suggesting that Cambodia adopt capital punishment as the sentence for theft; I just found the story interesting that another south east Asian city had a similar problem 30+ years ago and dealt with it rather quickly. In PP's case, it doesn't need to be death, but if the government took it more seriously and addressed it in an aggressive manner and straight on, then results could be made.
As has been said many times on this forum, telling people to simply not carry a bag is the type of victim blaming that perpetuates the problem. If there is a problem with shop owners being shaken down from the mafia, should they just not open stores? A wife being beat by her husband is also probably to be blamed for opening her mouth.
What starts as bag snatching can quickly materialize into a greater problem, and it already has. Phones, necklaces, and even earrings will increasingly be targets, with the potential to increase from "snatch and run" to more physical means of robbery. In the example linked before, a 12 year old was killed for $20 earrings. Is there a direct correlation between bag snatching and that case? I don't know. But I do know that if the current problem is never addressed, then the perpetrators will grow bolder, and increasingly dangerous.
As has been said many times on this forum, telling people to simply not carry a bag is the type of victim blaming that perpetuates the problem. If there is a problem with shop owners being shaken down from the mafia, should they just not open stores? A wife being beat by her husband is also probably to be blamed for opening her mouth.
What starts as bag snatching can quickly materialize into a greater problem, and it already has. Phones, necklaces, and even earrings will increasingly be targets, with the potential to increase from "snatch and run" to more physical means of robbery. In the example linked before, a 12 year old was killed for $20 earrings. Is there a direct correlation between bag snatching and that case? I don't know. But I do know that if the current problem is never addressed, then the perpetrators will grow bolder, and increasingly dangerous.
Crikey, the death penalty for theft! This would devestate the government, police, judiciary, military and business.
Mandatory five-year term as a garment worker.
The truth is that the only thing that matters is what I think because in the end you're going to give me all your money anyway.
You can leave your phone on a table here in Saudi Arabia no problem, it wil still be there, or the cleaner will be holding it for you when you figure it out and go back to the food hall in the mall two hours later and hand it back to you with a smile, not sure whether that is because of the threat of having your hands chopped off or simply because even if you do get any money from stealing there is absolutely sweet fuck all to spend it on, which kinda negates the point of theft really.
Honey pot hand bags filled with dye packs. After a week an advertising campaign explaining the rash of purple people. Either that or razor wire sewn into a hand bag attached to the tuk tuk. Then an advertising campaign saying where they can pick up their fingers from.
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Yet 99.9% of the time there will be no bag snatching so you'll just be known as that weird little guy that carries his feces everywhere with him.ricecakes wrote:Here's a great game. Take a streaming shit in a little Nokia bag and hold it where a thieving freshy boy can easily lift it from you whilst riding a tuk tuk.
What a surprise he'll get !
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Hah! Sometimes Ken Svay can be really funny.ken svay wrote:Crikey, the death penalty for theft! This would devestate the government, police, judiciary, military and business.