[Big Arnold]

Although you have to admit it will be more effective at stopping him thieving than the £75 fine.

[Fozzy]

Apparently he's been found not guilty. Which was probably predictable. He does seem to have gone way over the top, but the police and CPS should surely have worked out that, given he was one man against two, he was always going to have the jury on his side.

[Safe_Timber_Man]

This is regarding the Hatton Garden heist.

I don't quite understand how their attitude towards the crime ties in with their usual demand for very tough justice and their usually quite graphic wishes of what should happen to criminals....

solomon, sheffield, United Kingdom, 24 minutes ago
legends!
+118 -13

theGREATESTbritain, London, United Kingdom, 25 minutes ago
I can't help it, but smile with them....
+95 -11

pga, london, 24 minutes ago
Nicely done and well played. Always good to see non-violent crimes pay off.
+85 -20

Is it maybe:

* Reminds them of Good Old Days™ crimes?
* British criminals rather than Romanians, which would garner a very different reaction?
* Getting one over on the rich?
* ^ Rich Jews?!

[Agnes]

Too many Ealing comedies when they were children, maybe.

[cycloon]

If those crims come near my kids I swear I'll do time, but if they're robbing someone (I am amused, but decided not to use an emoticon to convey it)

[Andy McDandy]

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[Big Arnold]

pga, london, 24 minutes ago
Nicely done and well played. Always good to see non-violent crimes pay off.
+85 -20

Yeah. Nothing better than a scammer leaving his victim penniless.

[Kreuzberger]

Too many Ealing comedies when they were children, maybe.

Not to dismiss there being some underlying hatred in mailites' minds, but I think there is a ring of truth to that thought. That these audacious, lovable rogues are invariably violent thugs doesn't seem to register.

[The Red Arrow]

Burgle their houses while they're out and see how they feel about non-violent crime.

[Andy McDandy]

Propah nawty but loved their mums. Looked after their own. Never stole from their own, mainly because there was nothing to steal. Etc.

[Safe_Timber_Man]

I hate animal cruelty with a passion, but fucking hell......

Yob’s sick grin caught on CCTV after he stole and tortured 200 rare birds and posted carcasses through letterboxes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... boxes.html

yorkshireman, leeds, United Kingdom, 1 day ago
kill him.
+53 -1

cokonner, poole, United Kingdom, 1 day ago
kill him.
+34 -1

[Killer Whale]

It's only OK if you dress up in tweed and off the feathery bastads with a shotgun. Then you can grin as much as you like.

[Safe_Timber_Man]

Man, 45, who was jailed for a year when he snapped and punched girl, 11, playing 'knock-and-run' is released early after appeals court says sentence was 'too harsh'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... harsh.html

Bearing this in mind....

Lee Kilburn snapped when the youngsters kept knocking on his front door and running away, as he was trying to comfort his partner who had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Perhaps a suspended sentence would have been more compassionate. It was a terrible time for him. I can appreciate the strain he was under. But still....

The girl suffered a broken nose and needed surgery after Kilburn caught up with her and punched her twice in the face, the court was told.

I get the impression the Mailites aren't really taking into account his circumstances...they just seem to believe it's okay to break a kids nose because 'youth of today'.

I'd have thought 'Knock & Run' would've reminded them of the Good Old Days where kids were safe to go play outside and have some harmless fun.

Lxce192, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
I don't blame him! No way should he have got a jail sentence, kids these days are horrors!!
+4568 -333

Londonlife, London, 3 hours ago
Finally common sense prevails for once in the justice system.
+2431 -162

Jerry, Jersey, 2 hours ago
The mother should have taught better manners to her child, then it would not have happened
+1872 -56

computer09, London, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago
Would you say the same if it was your daughter?
+145 -907

Go ahead and break her nose, apparently.

[Watchman]

And what would Littledick say. ...... something along the lines of and when I got home dad gave me another broken nose!