Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
An electrician friend had his van broken into, hundreds of dollars of copper wire stolen. Repeatedly.
The cops wrote a police report so he can report it to his insurance company. But there’s a $500 deductible for each incident, so the few nickels the thieves make selling scrap wire cost him thousands of dollars out-of-pocket. Thievery in Minnesota is a “cost of doing business.”
Minnesota is too civilized to punish thieves by cutting off their hands and thereby dissuade others. We put them on probation to steal again.
Minnesota is too civilized to punish thieves. Nobody is dissuaded from crime.
Minnesota is too civilized, too afraid of offending the offensive.
Minnesota is . . . doomed?
Joe Doakes
When citizens can’t count on “law and order” to uphold the law and preserve order (and, let’s be honest, also count on law enforcement to prosecute organic civilian efforts to enforce law and order more rigorously than actual criminality), how long can a free society survive?
Say, didn’t one of our worthless, do nothing Senators push for stronger penalties for people stealing wire? Oh; wait a minute… Nah! That was just for idiots stealing wire from power plants! Way to go Amy! Looking out for the little guy.
My brother works for a cabling contractor. Even with the smaller copper wire content of Cat5e and Cat6 cable, he’s had some stolen and a couple of failed attempts to steal rolls of it from his van. Funny though; after he put one of those “I don’t call 9-1-1” stickers on his van, he hasn’t had any problems.
Laws are for little people.