A man was let off a charge of stealing around $180 worth of groceries because he said that life on a benefit is hard.
This poses a number of questions for me.
Why has this petty crime made headlines?
Is there still a moral discomfit about beneficiaries biting the hand that feeds?
Would someone on the minimum wage who claimed financial difficulty be let off?
If life on a benefit is hard, isn't the better reaction to try and get off it?
Will this dismissal of a crime encourage more people to put up a defence of "life on a benefit is hard"?
Why didn't the offender go to a foodbank?
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