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"Taking a single grape at the supermarket is illegal but no one would arrest you for it." Petty crime can have serious consequences regardless. In Germany we h
by weinzierl 3y ago
"Taking a single grape at the supermarket is illegal but no one would arrest you for it."
Petty crime can have serious consequences regardless. In Germany we had a famous case, where a supermarket cashier redeemed a deposit receipt worth 1.30 EUR a customer had forgotten.
She was let go without notice for that and only got her job back after fighting through three instances. Only the highest court found the termination disproportionate and only because she had been working this job for 31 years.There was never a debate if this was stealing or not, just if the termination proportionate .
- bombcar 3y agoIt can have serious consequences even (especially) if ignored. If every customer slurped one grape, eventually there would be no grapes. Death by a thousand paper cuts and tragedy of the commons.