CRIME in Noway...
I was witness to a CRIME today...
A man was caught shop lifting...
I have seen a couple of shoplifters caught in the US...it was a TOTALLY different experience.
The Shoplifters where chased through the WAL MART parking lot... where the cops would proceed to tackle them.... & cuff them, all the while the SHOPLIFTER is SCREAMING every dirty word in the book...saying that they are innocent...trying to kick the cop etc...
Today it went down like this....
Man checks out at the register... as man tries to leave the store... an employee walks up to him & asks...
"Excuse me Sir, is that a bottle of Chanel #5 in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
"Oh this little thing? (pulling the bottle out of his sleeve) Hmmm, terrible sorry.. (in my head he had an English accent...but really he was speaking Norwegian) here you go, (smile) no hard feelings right? Ohhhh, there are hard feelings? - sure here is my ID... OH... you are going to write me a ticket? - that bites...
FREE TO GO.
OK... lets just say CRAAAAAAAAAZY.
It was the MOST CIVILIZED bust I have ever witnessed... everyone was just soooo NICE about it.
Now granted... I have no idea how much his fine for stealing a $100 bottle of perfume...
Norway likes to hit you where it hurts...in the POCKET BOOK... so I bet the fine will be pretty darn high.
(I am thinking in the US you could be locked up?)
Crime & punishment in Norway just doesn't make sense to me.
If you are caught speeding 5 miles over the speed limit, your fine can be close to $300.
Speeding way over the limit? you can be locked up! serious.... & then the cost to get your license back?- I would be walking for the rest of my adult life.
I often shake my head about the Norwegian's silly(EXPENSIVE) fines... but I have to say, I have never in my life been as law abiding as I have been since I moved to Norway... I guess I am too cheap to do something wrong...
You know what they say here...
Don't do the crime, if you can't pay the fine.
A man was caught shop lifting...
I have seen a couple of shoplifters caught in the US...it was a TOTALLY different experience.
The Shoplifters where chased through the WAL MART parking lot... where the cops would proceed to tackle them.... & cuff them, all the while the SHOPLIFTER is SCREAMING every dirty word in the book...saying that they are innocent...trying to kick the cop etc...
Today it went down like this....
Man checks out at the register... as man tries to leave the store... an employee walks up to him & asks...
"Excuse me Sir, is that a bottle of Chanel #5 in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
"Oh this little thing? (pulling the bottle out of his sleeve) Hmmm, terrible sorry.. (in my head he had an English accent...but really he was speaking Norwegian) here you go, (smile) no hard feelings right? Ohhhh, there are hard feelings? - sure here is my ID... OH... you are going to write me a ticket? - that bites...
FREE TO GO.
OK... lets just say CRAAAAAAAAAZY.
It was the MOST CIVILIZED bust I have ever witnessed... everyone was just soooo NICE about it.
Now granted... I have no idea how much his fine for stealing a $100 bottle of perfume...
Norway likes to hit you where it hurts...in the POCKET BOOK... so I bet the fine will be pretty darn high.
(I am thinking in the US you could be locked up?)
Crime & punishment in Norway just doesn't make sense to me.
If you are caught speeding 5 miles over the speed limit, your fine can be close to $300.
Speeding way over the limit? you can be locked up! serious.... & then the cost to get your license back?- I would be walking for the rest of my adult life.
I often shake my head about the Norwegian's silly(EXPENSIVE) fines... but I have to say, I have never in my life been as law abiding as I have been since I moved to Norway... I guess I am too cheap to do something wrong...
You know what they say here...
Don't do the crime, if you can't pay the fine.
Comments
Yes, JAIL!
Then of course he went straight into his military service afterward.
When I was a kid I saw a woman get tackled at Kmart. It was kind of violent.
I caught a person cutting their own fabric at the fabric store I worked at once, she said she had to go to the bathroom and took off lol.
And another time this girl stole a ton of clothes that were sale at the fabric store and shoved them in a sewing basket and got caught. Eventually the cops came and took her away.
We have lots of border patrol, ice (drug enforcement)agents, etc... around here. It's crazy some of the things I here.
i do like how easy and honest that shoplifter was. too bad its not more like that here!
yeah, i once saw a couple of women dash into a dept. store and grab everything from the front two racks and then hop into a getaway car... i mean...
Here, it's all about the violence. I'm sure if there was violence involved, there would definitely be jail time(at least overnight). I'm not really sure because I've never been in that situation(and never plan to).
But that's very...civilized. I would be interested in hearing if there was a big fine though.
Have a super Friday my friend...
Haven't seen any shoplifters here in Germany but I'd imagine that it wouldn't be much difference from in Norway!
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Mary
A very Merry Christmas to you.
Julie
Sad to say, probably not.
It isn’t all rosy though, there seems to be a group of young men that are willing to break the rules. Random violence, driven by drug and alcohol misuse is on the rise, possibly driven by an increase in use of steroids and cocaine (research on mixing cocaine and alcohol shows it forms a third drug in the body which contributes to violent behaviour). Still at leat the police are back to working overtime.
God jul